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Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals.
Fight to the Finish: Stories of Polio, chronicles the amazing story of America's battle against the last of the deadly childhood plagues, polio. A Fight to the Finish: Stories of Polio weaves together history and personal stories to create a unique documentary portrait of the human spirit.
Alison Brown and Charlie Simonds plan this film at Britain's oldest naturist club, Spielplatz. It’s then off to the Greek Mediterranean and Crete to discover Kalypso Cretan Village. They meet up with friends, Jocelyne and Regis, to investigate why this resort has become so popular.
A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.
An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.
Special following four families who are raising teenagers, and capturing candid, often disturbing situations which reveal the direct connection between parents' behavior and the ways their kids are mirroring or reacting to that behavior.
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.
Once upon a time, a door opened and two worlds collided. Dreams clashed with reality. The mundane mixed with the marvelous. It was no longer possible to tell where one world began and the other ended. This new place was called La Nouba. This special presentation features highlights of the show and live interviews with the creators of La Nouba that takes you from conception to perception.
A spectacular, up-close look at the ocean's gentle giants with Dr. Roger Payne.
A piggyback ride of a documentary linking Haitian pigs, Vodou and US economic imperialism.
Access All Areas: A Rock & Roll Odyssey is a documentary following rock band Bon Jovi on their successful New Jersey Syndicate Tour between 1988 and 1990. It contains live, backstage, and candid footage of the band, soundtracked with their music.
Bahij Hojeij’s documentary studies the infamous Green Line between east and west Beirut during the civil war.
On May 3, 1945, with Hitler already dead and Hamburg and Berlin having surrendered, the Royal Air Force launched its last major air raid. The target was a collection of ships in the Bay of Kiel and Lübeck. The largest ships, the floating concentration camp transports Cap Arcone and Thielbeck, were targeted by the bombers and low-flying aircraft: this horrific mistake cost the lives of over 700 prisoners - the greatest maritime disaster of all time. The film returns to the sites of the events, to Neuengamme, where the prisoners were previously interned, to Lübeck, where they were embarked, to Neustadt, where they were crammed onto the Cap Arcona. The prehistory of the last great luxury liner is reconstructed, the launching, the voyage of the Queen of the South Atlantic, as the most important extra in the UFA production: The Sinking of the Titanic.
Short film starring founding member of the house of St Laurent; Octavia.
Filmed by Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Al Giddings, this timeless program takes a stirring look at the largest, tallest, longest-living things on the planet: trees. Stunning location footage captures the variety and the grandeur of the Pacific Northwest, the Florida Everglades, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Great Sonoran Desert. Quotations from Sierra Club founder John Muir and others who revere nature are interwoven with information on topics ranging from the function of forest ecosystems, to the effects of deforestation, to the integration of parks into urban landscapes.
Every Wednesday at noon, women who were kidnapped for sexual purpose by the Japanese army during its imperialism and their supporters demonstrate against Japanese government to request official apology and indemnity for their crimes. This documentary portrays sexually abused old women's suppressed story of overcoming of their shame and forced silence.
Catch the spark after dark at Disneyland Park. And say farewell to one of the Magic Kingdom's most celebrated traditions - The Main Street Electrical Parade. Where else, but in The Main Street Electrical Parade, could you see an illuminated 40-foot-long fire-breathing dragon? And hear the energy of its legendary melody one last time? It's unforgettable after-dark magic that will glow in your heart long after the last float has disappeared.
Documentary about Gordon Kahl, a tax protester who was killed in a shootout with local law enforcement officials in Smithville, Arkansas in 1983.
A chronicle of the events from October 9, 1989 to October 3, 1990, staged as a neo-dadaistic farce, an overwhelmingly rich collection of interviews with contemporary witnesses and camera pontanies.
A documentary about obsessive 8-track tape collectors, the film documents a cross-country trip looking for those passionate few for whom the 70s never died
Directed by French filmmaker Claude Chabrol, this documentary examines Nazi and Vichy newsreels and propaganda films from World War II meant to turn the French against the Jews and the Allied Forces and into Nazi sympathizers. This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation).
Television documentary about the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, England.
This film follows a year in the life of a young African-American girl as she turns 13. Temporarily running away from home to sort out her life, which of course sends her family and friends into a frenzy, she soon returns with new purpose - to buy a car. This sends her into a working frenzy - baby sitting, mowing lawns, washing cars, and pursuing jobs obviously advertised for adults. The film ends with Nina's 14th birthday and promise of her future.
A man plants trees around the world.
A film dedicated to the women who spent many years in ALZhIR (Akmolinsk Camp for the Wives of Traitors to the Motherland). Stalin's terror reduced their young lives to hard labor. Actress Kseniya Kozmina, who served time in ALZhIR, decides to meet with the former leadership of the camp.
"Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are removed from their mothers and given to fathers who often either don't want them or have been convicted of domestic violence.
In this autobiographical experimental work, Daniel Reeves examines childhood memories, family history, and the personal aftermath of violence. Drawing on family photographs, Polaroids, and home movies dating back decades, the film assembles a poetic collage of images, voiceover, and text that reflects on trauma, memory, and the search for meaning across generations.
Highly acclaimed documentary special following a year in the fortunes of Leyton Orient Football Club.
Jimmy White recalls and replays his super fast 147 break during a match at the World Championships, followed by Tony Knowles selection of near impossible trick shots.
A fictional documentary on the representation of female genitalia in art - Director François Ozon
Pointing to the increasingly blurred distinction between reality and fiction in the world today, Dennis Hopper leads a discussion on the methods used by advertisers, as well as the responsibilities of ad-makers. The biggest names in the business have their say on shock, humour, and sex as methods of selling.
Spetsnaz is the Russian for Special Forces. In this series this highly secretive organisation will be laid bare. Since the mid-seventies the unit has seen active service in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia and the crime-ridden streets of Moscow. The films follows some of the different units on operations in Chechnya, Angola and Moscow, as well as their competitive selection process. This film delves inside the domestic counter-terrorism unit ALPHA GROUP, the KGB's foreign commando force, VYMPEL and the special police commandos, OMON. For the first time, our cameras record how new candidates to Spetsnaz units are put through their paces at Balashikha, the joint KGB/Interior Ministry training centre outside Moscow. We will get to know the men and women who aspire to make the transition from regular soldier / policeman to fully-fledged Spetsnaz.
Enjoy your favorite extreme skiers and boarders in some of the most beautiful and deepest powder ever. Chamonix, La Grave in France, Big Sky and Bridger Bowl in Montana, Mammoth Mountain, also Island lake Lodge, Red Mountain and Whistler in Canada. You will see all of the usual suspects and even some eccentric snow bums. Glen Plake's massive Mohawk will be around for anyone willing to rubber neck. Featured music includes Seal, 808 State, The Beastie Boys, Meshell Ndegeocello, Billy Idol, Dinosaur Jr. and Deee-lite.
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg, Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism. She remained in the United States for the rest of her life, where she became a much respected author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The themes of freedom and individualism were to be her life's passion...
The documentary is about the life and future goals of prisoners in prison for children.
A behind the scenes look at the Broadway production of Jelly's Last Jam, including a tribute to jazz musician and composer Jelly Roll Morton. Gregory Hines and George C. Wolfe, who wrote the book for Jelly's Last Jam, are interviewed. Includes scenes from the show.
Austria's largest housing complex erected in one building stage is situated in the Northeast of Vienna. It lies on the former premises of a horse racetrack and comprises 2.400 flats. 59 blocks and long hall-like corridors lead more than 8.000 people to their living rooms: The film offers glimpses into the lives of more than 20 people - the life of an individual behind one of the countless doors.
A documentary about Genie, who spent the first thirteen years of her life imprisoned in her bedroom by her father, with her arms and legs immobilized.
Featured are Black's Beach in San Diego, Paradise Lakes of Tempa, FL, Steph's Pond in Upstate New York, Cypress Cove, Rocquemont Beach on Guadeloupe Island, East Coast gathering of Naturists at a Poconos Mountain camp, Belezy in Southern France, Munich's Central Park in Germany, Mykonos Island in Greece, Sorobon Resort on Bonaire in the Caribbean and Cap D'Agde, the French Mediterranean city.
A powerful story of an ultra-violent world and the courage of one young woman against all odds.
Documentary on the career of Lauren Bacall.
"Killing a person, especially the one you love, is very difficult..." - that's what was written in the farewell letter that the police found in Gustaf and Maria's apartment in March 1997. In her bed, Maria was also found dead from drugs and suffocation. She was 87 years old and severely senile. In the last years, Gustaf himself had taken care of her at home because Maria was afraid of institutions and medical equipment. "....difficult, damn hard, even if you're logically and emotionally convinced that it's the best for her - and for me." The following day, Gustaf boards a Finland boat. In open water, he sinks his body into the sea with a chain wrapped around the body, "so that the corpse does not float up". That's how Gustaf and Maria died - after a whole life together,
Documentary directed by Norio Tsuruta.
Spielberg talks about his friend Stanley Kubrick.
A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.
World-renowned zoologist and marine photographer Howard Hall explores the complex ecology of California's coastal kelp forests in this classic underwater production. The film dives deep into this mysterious Pacific Ocean realm, examining some of its odd and unusual inhabitants, from the rare basking shark, to otters and sea lions, and magnificent blue whales, the largest animals on the Planet.
Film by Karmakar.
Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten-year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind: to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries.
Documentary about the role of women in rural northern Swedish society.
Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.
Petr Vaclav's documentary Pani Le Murie (Madam Le Murie, 1993) depicts the last survivor of an aristocratic family who refused to bow to Communism.
Teatro Amazonas is an elaborate, intriguing formalist experiment investigating the cinematic gaze and cultural exchange, and offering an unconventional ethnographic record of its Amazonian subjects engaged (and disengaged) in the act of spectatorship.
A woman searching for the traces of her mother in herself. Live, re-live.
Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It was a very funny afternoon.