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This short documentary explores the legacy of residential schools through the eyes of two extraordinary women who not only lived it, but who, as adults, made the surprising decision to return to the school that had affected their lives so profoundly. This intimate and moving film affirms their strength and dignity in standing up and making a difference on their own terms.
Things could hardly be better for the attractive, lively Eva and her sensitive husband Max: The two are as in love as on the first day, have good jobs and live in a charming little house in the countryside. Eva works as an assistant in a renowned Frankfurt event agency and Max is an extremely talented carpenter. But on the very day that Eva is given the opportunity by her boss to organize and lead an important conference, Max confesses to her that he has lost his job. The role reversal in Eva and Max's young marriage puts their relationship to a serious test.
The year is 1938. Winnipeg is a lonely place set in the middle of the Manitoba farmlands, a stop-off to somewhere else, a city recovering from the devastation of The Great Depression. It is into this remote centre of the Canadian prairies that two English women arrive- 37-year-old Gweneth Lloyd and 23-year-old Betty Hey. What they don't know is that here, in this unlikely setting, they will start a dance group that will one day be known internationally as The Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company - the first professional ballet company in Canada. Through the diverse voices of former RWB company members and rarely seen original dance footage, 40 years of One Night Stands recounts the dramatic, and challenging first four decades of one of the world's premier dance companies.
Often sexy, sometimes profane but always provocative VERMILLION PLEASURE NIGHT is a variety show that stands out even by the offbeat standards of Japanese late night television---required viewing for the Japanophile, the college student, and the urban hipster!
A small turtle and a rabbit rush to save an undersea kingdom.
A street-slang-filled parody of Little Red Riding Hood, written and played by the members of Belgrade music band The Kuguars.
"It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes," wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his remarkable powers of observation and deduction. In what would become true Sherlockian fashion, he had the ability to deduce facts about his patients from otherwise unremarkable details. Based on extensive research into the life of Bell and including tantalizing accounts of the connections between Bell and Conan Doyle, this biography is for anyone interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
The Irishman Tomás Ó Cuirín (1877-1938), known as Tom Crean, was one of the greatest heroes in the history of Antarctic exploration: he participated in three of the greatest expeditions, shared adventures with Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Henry Shackleton, the great rivals of the time, and survived them both. However, today he is a practically forgotten figure.
National Geographic Magazine photographer Joel Sartore shoots in some of the most exotic locales on earth, often in wretched conditions for weeks on end, and always under pressure to produce worthy pictures. A husband and father of three, he often wonders if it's the best job in the world or the worst. ""At Close Range"" reminds us of where we fit in the cosmos, and what we owe to the next generation of all the earth's inhabitants.
A public access cable show that aired on Albuquerque Comcast Channel 27. Each episode is a collage of rare movie trailers, b-movie clips, old toy commercials, obscure music videos, strange kids shows, bad foreign television and much more. It's thirty minutes of pure brain-melting video weirdness.
They were four ordinary lads from Liverpool who became the biggest rock band the world had ever seen. Wherever they went, they won hearts and sold millions of discs and cinema tickets. What was so special about them that they could fill concert halls and airports form Tokyo to New York with thousands of fans? Why did the dream die and what have "The Fab Four" left behind? In short, who were the Beatles and how did they conquer the world? In this program, we look at their progress week by week through the best days of their lives with footage of fans and interviews, destinations and encounters, good times and bad. The Beatle Diaries tells you all you need to know about the significant events of the Fab Four’s glory years. Travel with John, Paul, George and Ringo from their early days in Liverpool to San Francisco, where they played their last concert together.
A comedy film directed by Ramiz Hasanoglu.
The film tells the story of the emptiness of time and interpersonal relationships.
A lively evening among three friends turns into a nightmare when one of them suffers a heart attack. To avoid confusion, they place their friend in the trunk of the car. However, the car disappears...
During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped liberate their homeland from Japanese occupation. Director Noel M. Izon captures their stories through the voices of the veterans themselves – only half of whom are still alive today – and delivers touching personal accounts of the men’s contributions and sacrifices during the war. Despite the fact that they endured a bleak, racist prewar climate and were not even considered U.S. citizens, these individuals rallied to join the war effort and cement their rightful place in American history.
Norwegian series based on the film.
Lookalikes of the world's most famous stars pass for the real thing while carrying out embarrassing, surprising, hysterical acts in public!
A father wonders how to explain to his seven-year-old not only that his mother has died, but also the cruel way in which it happened.
Documentary about the controversial 1970s union boss Derek Robinson, who led the British Leyland workers into a series of strikes
The dream of writing seems to come true for trained pharmacist Kim Garben when she is commissioned to write a heartbreak story as a serialized novel for a newspaper. However, Kim, who has been sorely disappointed by men, finds it difficult to write a love story of all things. But then comes the saving idea: she simply hooks up with her lovesick neighbor Ludger, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend.
In four years, from 1904-1908, tens of thousands of Herero people of Namibia were killed by the German Empire. The experience of one family is described by a descendant, a 23-year-old Herero woman named Georgina. She has a fair complexion and a green tinge to her eyes. Georgina is aware of the fact that her great-grandmother was raped by a German soldier and now wants to confront the demons of her own genetic past.
Bob Marley was the first artist to take reggae music to the masses outside his native Jamaica. He also became a symbol of spiritual peace and human compassion to people around the globe and is widely regarded as one of the true philosophers of both reggae and the Rastafarian faith. Bob Marley: Spiritual Journey is a documentary that explores Marley as both a musician and a spiritual thinker and, through interviews and newsreel footage, attempts to measure his impact on the world. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. Children as young as eight have their unformed bodies stretched and tested to breaking point as they learn to master the most taxing feats of acrobatic grace and daring. Harsh demands are also made of teachers and parents as their proteges strive to be number one in the circus, the Chinese way. (Storyville)
Young but already experienced filmmaker Robert Sedláček (author of the documentary trilogy about modern Czech history Tenkrát or the feature debut Pravidla lži), meets in the film the retired prime minister Miloš Zeman, who, with his own ambivalent attitude, sees this film as his "obituary". In the documentary, he talks about the personal and socio-political contexts of his life and confesses in it his admiring relationship with Vysočina, which is for him an "anchor in his soul". The viewer learns what the former prime minister thinks about and how he reflects on the recent past, and in this way he can actually learn something about himself, because Miloš Zeman is one of the most powerful men in our modern history and therefore also, in a certain sense, the embodiment of Czech society.
Elena, a young writer who returns to Chile after five years and meets her great friend Fernanda and her husband, Alejandro, who tries to seduce Elena without knowing that she is a lesbian. When Fernanda discovers that Alejandro is being unfaithful, she pretends to have an affair with Elena in a way to punish him.
At a special ceremony during the opening of the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, seven Indigenous men in their fifties entered the stadium in war canoes. One of them held the Games torch. In 1967 when Winnipeg first hosted the Pan American Games, ten outstanding athletic teenage boys were chosen to run 800 kilometers over an ancient message route with the Games torch. When the runners arrived at the stadium, they were not allowed to enter with the torch. Instead, a non-Indigenous runner was given the honour. Thirty-two-years later, the province of Manitoba issued an official apology. Nine of the ten young men chosen for the 1967 Pan Am Games torch run were from residential schools. Niigaanibatowaad is about the segregation of the Indigenous athletes and the despair and abuse suffered in the school system. Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners is a story of survival, hope, reconciliation and a dream for a new beginning that transcends hatred and racism.
Wildlife film. South African naturalist Mike Rutzen is crazy about great white sharks. He never saw Jaws, so he doesn't share the terror that makes these sharks the world's most feared predator. For ten years, Mike has swum with great whites without the protection of a cage. He has spent so much time in their company that he has learnt to read their body language and to think like a shark. It is this knowledge that keeps him safe. Mike's quest to understand them better now takes him into the heart of a seal ambush site, where he hopes to witness their hunting behaviour underwater.
Africa is a continent that conjures up images of bold predators: Lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and jackals. Now National Geographic sets those four-legged giants aside in search of the twelve deadliest snakes in Africa, including the continent’s most lethal serpent. There are over 400 different species of snakes in Africa, nearly 100 of those are considered dangerous to man. Out of those, 12 stand out.
Often sexy, sometimes profane but always provocative VERMILLION PLEASURE NIGHT is a variety show that stands out even by the offbeat standards of Japanese late night television---required viewing for the Japanophile, the college student, and the urban hipster!
The artist sits at a table over a blank sheet of white paper. He ponders, supported on his elbows; his head in his hands, as if in a vice. The camera, penetrating - it's the veins on his shaved head swelling in deep thought, it's the still empty paper - notices that the sheet shrinks in size until it's a barely visible shred, accidentally swept off the table by someone's breath...
This movie is the story of two teenagers named Farid and Mithaq, who are neighbors and classmates, but they have problems with each other due to cultural and family differences.
Henryk Roszponka, a thirty-year-old bricklayer, and his young helper, Toddler, wake up with a heavy hangover. They fail to make it to Grandma Stangreciak's funeral. When they reach the cemetery, the ceremony is over. By chance, Rapunzel discovers the abandoned grave of his friend and mentor, Staszek Swan, nearby. Feeling his debtor, he decides to take care of the grave. However, it is not easy when you don't have a penny ...
This film explores the most astonishing predictions of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Michio Kaku contributes.
A documentary about the Czech national team's victory at the 2001 Ice Hockey World Championships.
She was one man's muse. For others, this musician and composer was a sex-obsessed monster, and for some she was both.The film shows the turbulent life of Alma Mahler-Werfel incorporating interviews with contemporaries, experts and archive material. In the center of it all stands the myth and profane reality of a legendary "femme fatale".
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997 shocked the world, and left behind a series of mysterious and sinister conspiracy theories. Explore the search for truth in this documentary.
The Candle demonstration in Bratislava of March 25, 1988 went down in history as one of the most significant public manifestations of resistance to the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia. The gathering was a harbinger of the gentle revolution of November 17, 1989, which led to the fall of forty years of totalitarianism and the rise of democracy. The demonstration for religious freedom and human rights was organized two decades ago by people from the secret Catholic communities persecuted by the authorities at the time. They demanded the appointment of Catholic bishops for vacant Slovak dioceses, complete religious freedom and also the observance of human rights. As a result, the originally religious event acquired a broader civic dimension.
A documentary describing the role of the Quandt family businesses during World War II.
In a country that has been occupied for decades, a couple of puppeteers continue to bring a little joy from village to village. The children laugh, perhaps still unaware of the gravity of the situation. The central section is devoted to a visit to the refugee camp of Dheisheh.
Ben Rogers was a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle class family. He played in the orchestra, loved cricket and enjoyed the annual family holiday. But his future promise was halted when he started taking drugs in his teens. Early drinking led to cannabis, harder drugs, and then the revelation to his family, at the age of 21, that he was addicted to heroin. Over the next 13 years Ben and his family battled with his addiction, going through detox, rehab and attempts at 'cold turkey', but his health gradually declined. Whilst attempting another detox aged 34, he died from a brain haemorrhage. But during the last two years of his life, Ben filmed an unflinching video diary showing his final desperate attempts to come off heroin. It's a portrayal of his descent; intimate, raw, and at times difficult to watch, he talks to his glove puppet as he injects into a vein in his groin.
Human Ape[1] is a National Geographic documentary film on the genetic and evolutionary origins of human behavior, and covers the genetic and behavioural similarities and differences between humans and other great apes. The award-winning independent production company Pioneer Productions of London was commissioned by National Geographic Channels International to produce Human Ape.
A documentary about the Katyn Massacre.
Mel B embarks on a personal journey of a lifetime to explore the traditional religions of West Africa. Her destination is Benin - the cradle of Voodoo.
A documentary that explores the roots and consequences of Argentina's profound economic, political, and social crisis. It offers a critical and analytical look at a system that has proven insufficient and socially unsustainable as a form of development in an Argentina that has witnessed a severe and violent crisis that demands a new form of development and social organization to overcome.
POWs OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION details how thousands of patriots died in unthinkable conditions aboard British prison ships moored in New York's harbor. The victims' bones are still being found, their shallow graves exposed on modern-day Brooklyn shores. Drawing on memoirs and letters written by the doomed prisoners, this riveting special documents the appalling conditions they endured. Insight from leading naval historians, medical experts and other specialists helps reveal the many facets of this 18th-century atrocity.
The film to show a school in Naples, in an area where schooling is given no value, as is perhaps, the case in problem areas in other large Western cities.
In September 2006, two very different groups attempted to climb the snow-capped Himalayas. One sought freedom, the other adventure. A murder brought them together.
When journalist Masha finally gives up trying to find happiness with Dmitry, an older man who was also her boss, she falls for the much younger Yuri Kozakov - handsome, attentive and seemingly wealthy. But after a hasty marriage, Masha soon begins to notices strange things about Yuri's lifestyle and behavior.
Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the internationally renowned rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Features never before seen footage of the group and extensive interviews with the band’s leader, Billy Corgan.
Take in the passing landscapes captured by train-mounted cameras during a rail journey through forests and mountains between Bergen and Oslo, Norway.
Paid enforcer Roman R. is expected to kill at four in the morning. We observe the last moments of the executor and the victim up to their "direct contact". What the executor swallows before the action to gain an advantage, and then what happens in his brain? Why does he kill once and release a hostage once?