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- Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
- Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.
- KLM flight 4805 take-off without clearance and collide with the Pan American Boeing 747 in the same runway, this is the major air disaster in 1970's. 583 passengers and crew lost their lives.
- This 10-part mini-series is a sweeping account of the rise of Earth's continents. They are the product of a grand waltz of plate tectonics and the continual evolution of the earth's crust, assembling and separating.
- A history of the American public education systems, beginning in the late 1700s and working up to the present day.
- War, assassinations, riots at home and abroad, and a presidential election all consolidated into one year to change society.
- In this documentary film, viewers learn about the life of Philip K. Dick including his early work as a pulp fiction novelist, his successful career with Hollywood, and his obsession with artificial intelligence. Friends and experts remember the man, his importance in the literary world, and the psychoses that drove his work. Hear excerpts of Dick talking about his own work.
- Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in American society is the story of the millions of Mexico's men and women who experienced the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program intended to undermine farm worker unionization. Harvest shows how several million men, in one of the largest state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap, controlled and disposable workers. The documentary features the men and women speaking of their experiences and addresses what to expect from a new temporary contract worker program. The politics of the Bracero Program laid the foundation for Mexican workers to follow the path to the US. NAFTA further impoverished the farmers of Mexico, and another generation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans demand a just immigration policy. The film is profoundly relevant to deconstructing anti-immigrant policies, lending a historical explanation to the contemporary issues of immigration in the US and global debates on migration.
- Features fascinating details on the Ping Fan research facility (Unit 731) in Manchuria, supervised by Japanese General Ishii Shiro and its use of American POWs and other human subjects for biological or chemical weapon experimentation.
- It is more than a film, it is about ife...
- This mini-series profiles nine "adventure" photographers and examines how they are able to capture such difficult subjects as whale sharks, molten volcanoes, Mount Everest, and untouched pre-Inca tombs.
- The 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment fought bravely and gallantly for the North during the Civil War. The regiment suffered well over 200 casualties during the battles of Bull Run, Edward's Ferry, Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Glendale, Vienna, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. It was the role they played at Gettysburg though that cemented their place in history. As the Gettysburg Sesquicentennial approaches we follow their story and ask: What was the Civil War really all about?
- Journeying back to the dawn of Italian theater, this program unmasks the intriguing and often under appreciated tradition known as commedia dell' arte. Viewers will discover the history of Italian masked theater, the origins of commedia dell' arte and its various iterations, and the nature of its performers' improvised style. The program explains how the tradition's inspired characters-Pantalone, Colombina, Pulcinella, and many others-evolved and rose to prominence in the hearts and minds of 16th, 17th, and 18th-century audiences. It also illustrates how Italian masked troupes influenced countless other cultures as they performed across Europe, thus shaping the theatrical sensibility of western society as a whole.
- America's Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also the influence it has had on art, fashion, language, film and racial equality.
- An intimate conversation with Virginia Howell Davis, the second wife and First Lady of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).
- RETT: There is Hope was made with an extraordinary group of volunteers to help raise funds and awareness for the Rett Syndrome community. The story behind Rett Syndrome is complicated. It involves a devastating genetic affliction that starts with young girls and includes incredible family dynamics, groundbreaking treatment, care and science. The film focuses on Rett families, the optimism surrounding treatments and forward thinking scientific breakthroughs and the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT). The documentary highlights three families affected by Rett Syndrome. The Coenraads family lives on the East Coast in Trumbull, Connecticut. 14yr old daughter Chelsea was diagnosed with Rett when she was three. Chelsea is severely afflicted. In going through the painful process of finding a proper diagnosis for her daughter, mother Monica was driven to start RSRT and serves as it's Executive Director. The Epstein family lives in Pacific Palisades, California. Their daughter Hannah was diagnosed with Rett just a few years ago. The family has undergone a dramatic transformation in learning to care for Hannah whose symptoms are less severe than Chelsea. Just outside of London live Lord Christopher Wellesley and his family. He and his wife Emma have four children. Skye, their second youngest was diagnosed with Rett a year ago and since then the family has been focused on her care and the search for a cure. The family is followed while dealing with a feeding tube medical procedure being administered to Skye. The story of these families has a symbiotic relationship with many scientists around the world who are working on a variety of unique therapies to lessen the severity of Rett Syndrome and eventually cure it.
- A film about the life of Ernest 'Papa' Hemingway. This film covers over forty years of Hemingway's life and brings audiences an interesting, compelling and entertaining film about Ernest Hemingway, one of our greatest literary artists. This tribute to 'Papa' Hemingway, reveals a vulnerable, deeply troubled man, whose fight with his own inner demons produced some of the greatest fiction of the twentieth century.
- TV Mini SeriesACTORS ON helps students explore dramatic literature by experiencing the actor's creative process.
- This is the gripping story of three extraordinary people -- the world's first woman to become a man through surgery, the former Spitfire pilot who became Britain's first man to become a woman and the daring advanced plastic surgeon who carried out their sex change operations in the 1940s. Surgical gender reassignment is now almost a commonplace procedure, but then it was seen as "science fiction surgery" and when the news broke it was a sensation. Michael Dillon, originally called Laura, had persuaded the brilliant Sir Harold Gillies -- the founding father of plastic surgery thanks to his pioneering work with badly injured soldiers from both World Wars -- to carry out the female-to-male operation that no surgeon in the world had ever attempted. Both men then helped former racing car driver and wartime pilot Robert Cowell change his own gender and become a woman.
- A man from the Republic of Georgia who, against all odds, survives the horrors of World War II. He then goes on to transform a small coastal town in California through his passion for art, music and living.
- Based upon Survivors Art Foundation's mission of healing through art, this film exhibits the artists' creativity by exposing their most profound inner visions and truths - survivors working through their own personal journeys.
- With unprecedented access, documentary filmmaker Robb Leech takes us inside Europe's biggest and busiest Muslim community, in the heart of London's East End. Robb quickly finds himself immersed in a breaking news story as three schoolgirls flee to Syria to become jihadi brides.
- Angels of The Basin chronicles the history & way-of-life of one of America's most fascinating cultures. The joyous music, melodic language, spicy cuisine & infectious joie de vivre typifies these hardworking people of the bayou. Their sunny demeanor masks their ancestral anguish, while environmental stress, political powerlessness and economic instability threaten to deny them their home & heritage. This documentary offers an intimate portrait of Louisiana's Cajuns whose centuries-old legacy both defines & inspires their lives among moss-draped-cypress recesses of the Atchafalaya Basin. For decades their issues have been ignored, dismissed, or lost in political quagmire. When 2005 saw the vast destruction caused by the hurricanes, failure of the levees and political ineptitude, the Cajun's claims were proven irrefutable and can no longer be denied.
- THE SCOOP is a hybrid docuseries where host Jeanette Bonner investigates the stories behind NYC's local and independent ice cream shops and invites a top creative professionals to join her for a fun, high level conversation about their career in the entertainment industry.
- Following four HIV+ positive youth in four different North American cities.
- Acting coach to some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Ivan Chubbuck explains her 12 step acting technique as outlined in the best-selling book, The Power of the Actor. This film features performances by Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Terrence Howard and others, as Ms. Chubbuck discusses and analyzes the anatomy of these Oscar nominated and winning performances.
- This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road - and especially of going off the beaten track - in American lore. The Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post-war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it; hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s and the current generation of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. American Road ultimately probes the meaning of what it is to be an American, not just a wayfarer.
- The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) is one of the world's worst invasive species and could destroy one third of America's trees. For the first time, the ALB infests a city on the edge of a natural forested area. 'Bugged' follows scientists, government officials and private citizens on the front lines of the ALB eradication war. Watch scientists use tree rings, paintball guns and fungi to fight the beetle!
- A documentary film about challenges second-generation Caribbean immigrants encounter that their American peers do not and the effort to maintain their parents' heritage and cultural identity. In contemporary immigration to the United States has given rise to a record number of children who, regardless of place of birth, are raised in immigrant families.
- In her thought provoking paper, Experiencing Aging, Catherine Papell, MSW, DSW, Professor Emerita and social worker extraordinaire, reflects on the process of aging, observing her own personal journey as a lens through which she focuses her unique wisdom. After a productive successful life, Dr. Papell continues to leave her mark on the hearts and psyche of everyone she teaches. With a dedication to teaching, Dr. Papell has taught many facets of social work curriculum, as a Professor at Adelphi University School of Social Work. She was the driving force in the creation of the Association for Advancement of Social Work with Groups, AASWG, an international society.
- New Orleans - The French Quarter - 1938. It rains heavily as a mysterious stranger walks into a bar and tells his story. He expects to see a woman murdered tonight. Again. He thinks she's a ghost, for he's seen her murdered twice. Each time by a young man...always a different young man... At the other end of the bar, the only other customer grows more and more tense, wary. He jumps up and bolts out...a young man.
- Cyprus,1974. Maria is trying to find anything she can about her son who is in the battlefield. A shocking twist of fate determines the course of the rest of her life.
- Most prison documentaries focus on the inmates. This sobering program features guards and prisoners alike, giving the viewer two interpretations of life at Ohio's Warren Correctional Institution. From the smallest detail-how cellmates rig a shabby partition around their toilet-to the cynicism and frontline sociology with which the corrections officers analyze their surroundings, the video clearly elucidates the effects of prolonged monotony and confinement on the human spirit. As one officer puts it, "Eight hours a day, I'm locked up here too."
- Mexicans introduce the diversity of their country by explaining regions, cultures, challenges and hopes "through their own words" in this film. Viewers are taken from the far reaches of Mexican jungles to ambulances racing through Mexico City, and visit Mayan ruins, eerie festivals, beaches where sea turtles are being saved from extinction. Edward James Olmos narrates, with on camera interviews from artists, environmental activists, factory workers, as well as illegal immigrants - ultimately celebrating Mexico's national pride.
- Are you doing a job you really like? Have you ever heard of people feeling useless? Do you know the people in your neighborhood? Do you feel integrated in a community or are you a lonely person? Is a growing economy based on good work or more a result of fiscal policy and speculators' decisions? In today's economy driven world these questions gain more and more importance. After achieving political equality - at least in theory through a modern constitution - we recognize that real freedom is determined through economic independence. But how to reach it? "The Timebank - an economy for everyone" describes little "self-made" economies, founded by ordinary people exclusively for ordinary people. In these economies, everyone has the opportunity to do jobs he or she likes. Nobody has to feel useless. People get to know the people living around them and become part of their community. And these economies only grow on the base of needed, well-done services. Social innovation, known to very few people, although spread all over the world. It is about emotions, longings, and hidden power, which all human beings have. Even if those feelings/conditions are to a large extent covered up by our pre-planned, busy daily lives. Whether one believes in the documented system's sustainability or not, the convincing comments made by the protagonists touch all our hearts and reveal new perspectives on lifestyle, dignity, and the value of human skills.
- Buckle Your Bible Belts! 'Marking the Message' is a road trip following how Christian evangelism is stepping up its marketing campaign and rebranding itself to fit mainstream pop culture. Jesus bobbleheads and Christian wrestlers - blasphemy, profiteering, or just new ways of spreading a timeless gospel?
- An educational series dealing with teens and the consequences of their decisions. Each episode consists of two parts. The first part is a short narrative showing teens in everyday situations and dealing with peer pressure, inter/intra gender relations, and a topic, ie. alcohol. Real scenarios are played out and we focus on the decision points and affects (topic) may have on choices. We show alternate endings of what could happen, then what did happen. The 2nd part is a documentary with interviews from: Dr.'s, psychologists, young adults who have made poor decisions, inmates, police officers, and others.
- One Breath is an educational documentary about asthma. I was diagnosed in January 2005 with severe asthma. Since my diagnosis I have found that many people have no idea what the disease is or what an asthmatic goes through. My goal as a filmmaker is to educate people about the severity of the disease and give them a glimpse into the life of people who suffer with asthma. The target population for this film is people of all ages, races, and gender. The disease does not discriminate in its impact. My film addresses the scope of the problem, signs and symptoms, what to do, good asthma control, skills management, latest research and the future. I also found that there are no support groups for people who are diagnosed as adults This film addresses a national need because there is currently no information available related to the needs of adults suffering from asthma as verified by the American Lung Association (who fully support this project).
- In LOST CHILD? filmmaker Gregory Ruzzin invites you along on a lighthearted journey as he uses his camera to bridge an ever-widening gap between himself and his developmentally disabled sister Alyssa, whom he sees only at obligatory family Christmases.
- A Living Biography of a Brilliant Artist and Sculptor named Harry Weber that journeys through his life, work, and work in progress.
- West Coast Pop Art : From the 40's to the 21st Century. Hot Rods, Pin-ups, Movies, Music, Flame Jobs, Posters, TV, Comics, Cowboys, Monsters, Tikis and Cartoons. All these things are influences on the Artists creating the work sometimes referred to as Lowbrow. Visceral beautifully realistic artwork tapping into the vein of media culture that surrounds us daily. Edgy, energetic and entertaining, this dynamic West Coast movement is changing the way we appreciate art and making it accessible and enjoyable to everyone.
- "A Zest for Life" is a documentary that uses performance, interviews and a host´s narration to explore and illustrate the dynamic, colorful and little known art forms of Afro-Peruvian music and dance. The lively dances are a delight to behold, and Afro-Peruvian music will appeal to anyone who loves Afro-Cuban or Brazilian music. The featured performing group, De Rompe y Raja is a San Francisco Bay Area group composed primarily of Peruvian immigrants. Lalo Izquierdo, the show´s star and an Afro-Peruvian, was invited to the group to give them a solid grounding in his tradition. Izquierdo is the choreographer for the performances as well as lead percussionist and lead dancer. He is a compelling focus for this documentary, as a musician and dancer, and also in his capacity as a folklorist and lead interview subject.
- Prescribed rest by her husband, a young mother grows increasingly troubled and haunted in their rented home.
- History of the Inuit of Northern Quebec since the arrival of their ancestors on the North American continent 8,000 years ago until the transfer of the region of Nunavik to the province of Quebec by the Government of Canada in 1912.