Filmed in a squatter community of Labangon in Cebu, Philippines, Holding Our Ground is the inspiring story of a group of women who have organized collectively to pressure their government for land reform, to establish their own money-lending system and to create shelters for street kids. A story of grassroots organizing that can be a model in both hemispheres.
Filmed in a squatter community of Labangon in Cebu, Philippines, Holding Our Ground is the inspiring story of a group of women who have organized collectively to pressure their government for land reform, to establish their own money-lending system and to create shelters for street kids. A story of grassroots organizing that can be a model in both hemispheres.
Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband, Brad, on a wacky and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.
In this documentary, recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction and believes it therefore to be his rightful property.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along with hundreds of paintings depicting The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glodeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Cased by the Child Slave Rebellion.
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
ภาพยนตร์สารคดีที่ถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวชีวิตของออเดรย์ เฮปเบิร์น นักแสดงสาว ไอคอนแฟชั่น และผู้ช่วยเหลือด้านมนุษยธรรม ได้ลึกซึ้งเกินกว่าแค่ภาพนักแสดงภาพยนตร์ผู้โด่งดัง และทำความรู้จักตัวตนที่แท้จริงของเธอถึงแก่นแท้
สารคดีเรื่องนี้สำรวจความคิดเกี่ยวกับการตรวจสอบผ่านกรณีการพาดหัวของอดีตเจ้าหน้าที่ที่ถูกตั้งข้อหาสมคบคิดที่จะลักพาตัวและกินผู้หญิง
วาเนสซา กีเยนมีอายุเพียง 20 ปีตอนถูกฆาตกรรมในฐานทัพทหารของสหรัฐฯ แต่แทนที่จะยอมปิดปากเงียบ ครอบครัวของเธอตัดสินใจลุกขึ้นสู้เพื่อความยุติธรรมและการเปลี่ยนแปลง
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses will embody the legend at various stages in her life.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.