Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America 2007
The American suffrage movement began when two women were barred from an anti-slavery meeting.
The American suffrage movement began when two women were barred from an anti-slavery meeting.
John Williams talks about Adapting the Score of Fiddler on the roof to the Big Screen.
Bending Space: Georges Rousse and the Durham Project captures the genius of French photographer and installation artist Georges Rousse and follows the artist and two hundred volunteers during a September 2006 public art residency in Durham. The film includes interviews with Rousse, project coordinators and volunteers, and people on the street as they visit the installations.
30 is a story about searching for the end of the road but finding the beginning.
A documentary about the "roda de coco" in Amaro Branco, place where for more than 100 years its people maintain the tradition of this contagious rhythm of the Brazilian northeast. The film shows the characters, the tradition and the wealth of this northeastern dance. More than that, it invites you to the middle of the "roda de coco".
With wings and glitter Ozkan every night turns into "Shushu", the renowned belly-dancing drag queen of Kyrenia, Cyprus. Ozkan also happens to be gay and living openly without hiding his sexuality. The only one who appears not to know this is his mother, with whom he lives.
More like sketches Phone Portrait and Phone Strip explore the moving image through the uniqueness of the most modern of technologies – the cellphone – that, though being modern, produces a near primitive and raw image reminiscent of the very first moving images.
The Story of the Oregon National Guard's deployment to Iraq in 2004/2005.
A refugee from Somalia tries to rebuild her life in Canada. Then she is kicked out of her house together with her teenage daughters.
Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.
Short-film sequel to director Andolfi's "The Cross of the Seven Jewels".
24 x 24: WIDE OPEN WITH JEFF GORDON explores the life both on and off the track of one of NASCAR racing's greatest and most beloved icons. The heart and soul of this fast paced documentary create an in-depth look behind the man by spending time off the track with Mr. Gordon, as well as a documentary-style retrospective of his career and lifestyle. Throughout this program viewers will get to know Jeff the driver, the family man, the adventurer, the entrepreneur, and the philanthropist.
In an old library, two armies of chess pieces are about to start a war.
A low-budget low-fi documentary about the black metal.
Animation film based on fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia, and rituals filmed there. Of the hundreds of rituals known to exist in Bali as 'Sangyan', the film takes as its motif the beautiful ritual 'Sangyan Dudari', which is said to be the most effective in exorcising demons.
Fists and feet fly with nonstop fury in this collection of the fiercest knockouts in the history of no-holds-barred Pride fighting, the extreme sport that combines judo, karate, jujitsu, kickboxing and wrestling. This greatest hits compilation also features full-length bouts between fighters Wanderlei Silva and Kazushi Sakuraba, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Chuck "the Iceman" Liddell, and Kevin Randleman and Mirko Filipovic.
50 years ago Jørgen Lauersen Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle, situated in the Danish country side, with the purpose of turning it into a monastery. Now, many years later, he is about to realize his old dream. A group of Russian Orthodox nuns are on their way, and thus Mr. Vigs life-long dream is about to come true. But, nuns have plans and wills of their own, and Mr. Vig must realize that the road to fulfilling his dream is very different than what he imagined.
A Roma without music is not really a Roma. In this personal quest to find the last Sinti and Roma, filmmaker Bob Entrop follows three gypsy bands. He travels with the Basily's to Prague, where they receive a warm welcome as a Dutch jazz band. Young Paulus Schäfer and his Gipsyband reach a high point when they perform together with the world-famous Rosenberg Trio. And with Roger, a Swiss musician/composer who has settled in the Netherlands, he visits his in-laws in Germany, where he sings a moving duet with his father-in-law, who has dementia. For all three, Django Reinhardt is the unsurpassed maestro.