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Part 4 of Scott Noble's film series about Political Repression in the U.S.A.

Movie about an abandoned sanatorium in a small spa town. Constructivist building, a celebration of development, a substantiation of the architect´s humanistic vision. The author embodied here his ideas of progress and constructed a symbol of a modern society. Nowadays: it is a modernist ruin of utopia. Cruise ships that sank in spa park. The owners have no interest to take care of the building, which is not profitable. Therefore this unique monument is decaying. But what is truly dysfunctional? The building, the architecture or the society? Are we prepared to deal with modern ruins ?

The story of one of New York's darkest secrets: An island where one million American souls are buried. Those who fell through the cracks of the American dream buried by prisoners from Rikers Island.

Roland Kaiser is considered one of the greats of German pop music. An icon of light music who masters the rules of success like no other. A star you can relate to: approachable and credible. A new WDR documentary now traces Roland Kaiser's eventful, exciting, and sometimes dramatic life and career. Pop star Roland Kaiser has been on stage for 50 years. The 70-year-old singer has sold more than 100 million records with hits such as "Joana," "Dich zu lieben" and "Santa Maria." The documentary shows Roland Kaiser, who has once again conquered the top of the charts with his album "Perspektiven," as a private person and family man.

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

An interview with Adriana Luna Parra about old age for women.

Elephants On The Move goes behind the scenes at Twycross Zoo as the herd of elephants which has been attracting crowds for 50 years, are set for a big change - a new home. Elephant Creek in Twycross Zoo has been a public favourite for generations, but it's time for its inhabitants to move house - nearly 150 miles away to the seaside - to Blackpool Zoo. Mike Dilger follows Minbu, Tara, Noorjahan and Esha, a family of four female Asian elephants, as they embark on their epic journey to relocate to Blackpool as part of a European breeding programme. However, persuading a family of elephants to get into a giant transportation crate for a three-hour drive north is not that simple. It’s one of the biggest challenges the team of zoo keepers has ever had to face. As part of their daily routines the elephants are being trained to get into the crates with treats and rewards after every milestone reached. It’s going to be a long process!

The Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit Powwow is inclusive and welcoming to all and honors those who cannot be there to dance, whether due to shame or violence.

"Seasonal farm worker families talk about their "seasonal life" in the fertile land of Çukurova, Adana."

It began as a raid, turned into a 51-day standoff, and ended with the destruction of a five-story building and 75 people dead. The 1993 Waco siege of the compound belonging to the Branch Davidians riveted the nation and drew swarms of media from around the globe. Now, a quarter century later, we revisit the American tragedy through rarely seen footage and interviews with local journalists, federal agents, and former and current members of the sect.

Stone Brewing is a brewery founded in 1996 and headquartered in Escondido, California. Greg Koch is one of the co-founders. After being crowned "Beer Jesus" by a Berlin tabloid, he wants to start a craft beer revolution in Germany. Greg Koch wants to fight the most popular industrial beer in the world. And realizes that it won't be a piece of cake. Germany not only has a well-established beer culture, but also a 500-year-old beer purity law. This cannot simply be circumvented. And then there's the "German bureaucracy", the cultural differences and a few other hurdles that Greg has to overcome.

LIGHT LICKS are a series of films, which are made frame by frame often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice.

For the Boondockers crew, snowmobiling is all about the opportunity for adventure and exploration in the winter backcountry with good friends. A winter of exceptionally low snowfall at home made for a memorable season of weekend road trips and powder chasing. Along the way we rode many new locations, gathered countless stories, and still managed to find more powder than sense. Join the Boondockers crew for an unforgettable winter of exploration, deep powder, and plenty of laughs.

In rural Manitoba, one couple navigate the seasons of their garden and their marriage.

Over five years, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the girls of Meru and their brave steps toward meaningful equality for girls worldwide. In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are the exception. In The Girls of Meru, a multinational team led by Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson and Tumaini Shelter head Mercy Chidi Baidoo builds the case of 11 girls to pursue an unheard of legal tactic. Together they created legal history.

A newspaper plays "inside baseball" to unearth forgotten photographs and stories of the 1984 Detroit Tigers World Champions. Detroit Free Press veterans Bill McGraw and Mary Schroeder recount this crowning moment in Detroit sports history through thousands of photo negatives and one sport writer's score book. Produced for the Detroit Free Press in 2018 ahead of the induction of Alan Trammell and Jack Morris into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The film tells the story of Loiya Ngamba, a nature lover who chanced upon an area in Punshilok in Langol hill range in Manipur and created a green space for the local communities. At a time when trees are cut down rampantly in the name of 'development', when 'civilisation', 'urbanisation' has come to mean building blocks of concrete, when forests are being cleared and sold off to corporate houses to usher in 'modernity', this film asks pertinent questions as it tells the story of reorienting man's relationship with nature and building a culture of peaceful coexistence.

An intimate voyage, an ode to daily routine and an evocative litany to clarify our perception of unknown everyday lives of 30 Siberian people and their issues.

Every morning, 12-year-old Wiktor’s grandmother lovingly wakes him up. Once he’s had breakfast and gotten dressed, Wiktor is ready for an intense day at ballet school, where he and his classmates are rehearsing for an important performance. All the proud parents will be sitting in the front row, and while Wiktor’s kind grandmother will of course come, the young dancer is desperately hoping that his father, who lives abroad, will be there, too. Wiktor wants nothing more than to make his father proud.

An examination of weaving and the loom as the predecessor to modern-day computing. Using punched cards, weaving programs were designed for looms in 18th century, and by the dawn of the 19th century, the process was automated. This was the percursor of modern computing hardware.

When Dian was six years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. Her mother scooped her up to save her from the boiling mud. Her neighbors ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian's, were wiped away, forever buried under 60 feet of mud. A decade later, 60,000 people have been displaced from what was once a thriving industrial and residential area in East Java. Dozens of factories, schools and mosques are completely submerged under a moonscape of ooze and grit. The cause? Lapindo, an Indonesian company drilling for natural gas in 2006, unleashed a violent, unstoppable flow of hot sludge from the earth's depths. It is estimated that the mudflow will not end for another decade. Shot over the course of six years, GRIT bears witness to Dian's transformation from young girl to a politically active teenager as she and her mother launch a resistance campaign against the drilling company.

Retired butcher Joe Williams runs a boxing club in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick. He trains boxers from both the settled and traveller communities. In a dying town where most of the buildings are empty, the boxing club is one of the few places where you are not defined by where you come from.

On the eve of the demolition of the site of Gerry Anderson's AP Films and Century 21 studios in Slough, original crew wander around and reminisce their time there. Includes archive footage and new sequences made with the original Thunderbirds puppets.

Siberia. The sparsely populated village of Krotov. The farmer Vasily Dmitrievich Abramov lives in the village completely alone, since in 2005 his sons were convicted of murder and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment ... The film, shot for 10 years, is the last work of the classic of the national documentary film Valery Solomin. It was completed by his sons Eugene and Viktor Solomin.

A documentary short catching up with John Halsey a.k.a. Barry Wom of The Rutles

A 14-minute short portrait of Choi Seung Chol, a North Korean defector who now lives in London.

Filmmaker Maxine Trump turns the camera on herself and her close circle of family and friends as she confronts the idea of not having kids. While exploring the cultural pressures and harsh criticism child-free women regularly experience, as well as the personal impact this decision may have on her own relationship, Maxine meets other women reckoning with their choice: Megan, who struggles to get medical permission to undergo elective sterilization, and Victoria, who lives with the backlash of publicly acknowledging that she made a mistake when she had a child.

Hundreds of feet in the air, a drone approaches a row of skyscrapers along Hong Kong’s affluent southern coast. The target: giant holes in the buildings’ facades kept clear for the passage of mythological dragons. Over three successive trips, an affectless voice offers thoughts on feng shui architecture, ideological resistance, and notions of queer identity.

"Do Ventre à Volta" is a short documentary directed by Brazilian rock singer Pitty in partnership with photographer and filmmaker Otavio Sousa. Released on March 19, 2018, the film captures an important chapter in the artist's life: her emotional and professional return to the stage at the João Rock festival in June 2017, after a year-and-a-half hiatus following the birth of her daughter, Madalena, in August 2016.

‘A day in the life’ of the kitchens of some of Estonia’s top restaurants. What happens in the engine room of a restaurant once you’ve placed your order? This film shows us the ‘hidden places’ where diners rarely go, with all the stress and passion that goes into making great food. Who does what and where and how in an often cramped room at 35°C. When and what do chefs eat, what are their thoughts about restaurants, food, food fads and fashions, money – and life. Why do they do the job they do? Toomas Lääts, Rene Uusmees, Dimitri Demjanov, Dmitri Rooz, Märt Metsallik, Ott Tomik – six head chefs shown simultaneously on a 3-way split screen. Watch 90 minutes on screen, get four and a half hours of action!

The evolution of Hanukkah, including its history and how it is celebrated across America as seen in a series of interviews and historical footage.

An elderly couple has been living together for the past 78 years in Danchun Village in Hwage, Kyungnam. The old man does everything from cooking to laundry instead of the old woman who can't move around much. They made a promise to be together forever, but the day comes for them to say goodbye...

Essay on the epic story of an ordinary man, a filmmaker, born in the beginning of the Second World War. From 1942 to 2016, his personal story and the world history, the history of his films, of cinema and the images that inspired him. Life and creation entangled, untangled, intertwined, jostled together. From his childhood to his first steps as an artist. From the distant war to the war against everyone, from the dreamed revolution to the consumer society that ruins your dreams like Coca Cola dissolves your bones.

Experimental documentary that dives inside the creative process of three great Panamanian fashion designers: Andrea Sousa Pitti, Verónica Ángel and Tony Vergara.

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle Ricardo, himself an openly gay man, was the ultimate guardian of my childhood.

Cameras follow four British men who have collectively helped to conceive more than 175 babies by donating their sperm to women who contact them via unregulated websites.

In 1965, Robert Kennedy was the first man to summit Mount Kennedy in the Yukon Territory, named in honor of his late brother. Leading that expedition was Jim Whitaker, the first American to summit Everest and original fulltime employee of REI. 50 years later, Jim’s sons Bob and Leif, along with Christopher Kennedy, decide to climb the mountain again in honor of their fathers’ joint accomplishment and unique friendship. Seattle-based filmmaker Eric Becker’s touching documentary combines archival footage—including several Kennedy home movies—with interviews from Jim himself and those who them best as we follow three sons and the journey literally in their fathers’ footsteps. Eddie Vedder, a personal friend of Bob’s, writes original music for film that tailor shots of the expansive mountain ranges together in this wholesome story.

Democratic, pro-Western Iraqi Kurds are forward thinking, sensitive to women's rights, effective in the fight against ISIS and an important role in the 2 Gulf Wars. They stand on the threshold of an independent state and are a vital component in the establishment of long-term peace in the region.

The story of the NHS.

Welcome to Cirque du Soleil BAZZAR, an eclectic lab of infinite creativity where a joyful troupe of acrobats, dancers and musicians craft an awe-inspiring spectacle. Lead by their maestro, they band together to invent a whimsical one-of-a-kind universe. In a place where the unexpected is expected, the colourful group reimagines, rebuilds and reinvents vibrant scenes in an artistic, acrobatic game of order and disorder. Come and claim your place amidst this marketplace of merriment and creative camaraderie. You just might find that the end of the story is really only the beginning!

The story of a climate-fueled conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. The disputed 277 square miles of sea, known as the Gray Zone, were traditionally fished by US lobstermen. But as the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than nearly any other body of water on the planet, the area’s previously modest lobster population has surged. As a result, Canadians have begun to assert their sovereignty, warring with the Americans to claim the bounty.

Fundation of the Republic and Small Law are two Chinese elders who frequent the center of Chinese majors of Usera, in Madrid. During the preparations for the Chinese New Year, one of the elders dies and a series of electrical problems begin to happen in the club that threaten to spoil the party.

After eight days in coma, a 15-year-old girl is given a second chance in life.

Frans Baartmans left his home on the Netherlands in 1979 to live in India amongst the Dalits in the slums of Nagwa, Varanasi. The Dalits belong to the most discriminated group of people ing the world and are also known as "untouchables". Being born a Dalit means you are born without a voice and excluded from society and all basic human rights. Together with this community, Frans is fighting the powers that be on a daily basis, aiming for equality, acknowledgement and dignity. The right to exist.

Elsie is the Mayor, treasurer, secretary, bartender and librarian of the Nebraskan town of Monowi - Population 1. Elsie's story is not only fascinating being the only resident of a town, she also represents a finding that Prudential made - 4 out of 5 women will eventually become solely responsible for their finances.

Mark McCloud is the world's leading collector Of LSD art. His 'Institute of Illegal Images' has over 30,000 framed hits of acid and traces the history of the drug's cultural influence through the unique art form used in its distribution - blotter art. After enduring and defeating aggressive prosecutions by law enforcement seeking to put him behind bars for life, Mark now appears to be more of a visionary than an outlaw and his museum has become a place of pilgrimage for believers in LSD's spiritual power.