Cinematic Era: 2005 Vintage

"I often think I remember my childhood, but then I realize it's a story I've been told, a photo, a home movie. How can I know if it really happened?"

A history of the Bactrian Gold, Afghanistan's greatest treasure and one of the world's great archaeological collections, which was rediscovered in 2003 after it was thought to have been destroyed by the Taliban or looted. The 2000-year-old crafted gold was originally discovered in 1978 by Soviet archaeologists.

A boy finds a glass ball inside a lake. Inside the ball there is a dancing bride. This unfolds the myth's thread. The guests of a wedding feast are waiting for the groom and the bride. The groom is a rich aristocrat, a great admirer of poetry and surrealism. He demands complete obedience in the law of absurd by all the guests. The guests are trying to win his favor by executing all his unreasonable wishes.

It has been linked to famines, epidemics, even the fall of empires. This program follows El Niño’s deadly path through human history and the progress science has made in understanding the once-mysterious phenomenon. The effects of El Niño are presented in detail, including an 1878 outbreak of yellow fever in Tennessee, a concurrent drought that ravaged much of China, and more recent calamities that have brought the true nature of this climatic occurrence to light. Focusing on high-tech advances in meteorology, the video outlines El Niño’s significance in the global warming debate and illustrates the use of computer models that can predict its next appearance.

A video by Graziano Staino

The film presents Julia Kristeva during a few interviews, conducted in Paris, which allow us to discover her thinking. They accompany different sequences of her personal life: on the Ile de Ré, where she spent long periods in the company of her husband, the writer Philippe Sollers; in Bulgaria, where she returns to the footsteps of her childhood. Mixed with these sequences, other older images, often intimate, present Kristeva in her youth. These private archives are the secret continent of a busy public and intellectual life.

Autism: The Road Back charts the personal journey of three families with children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It talks to parents, service providers, and experts in the field about assessment, diagnoses, and options available for treatment, and provides guidance for families trying to navigate their way through the challenges of ASD in the first six years of their child's life.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Dr. Frankenstein, in an effort to become the greatest scientist that ever lived, succeeds in bringing the dead back to life.

Once he was a father, but now he is dead and his two children will take care of everything. The question is where to start.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Roger Avary's The Rules of Attractions featuring V/VM's sound design

A political satire musical from the creators of The Autocrats.

The journey begins in the Roman ruins of Milreu in Portugal, where a mother reads to her son Seneca's advice on the importance of reading. It then takes them through villages and shores where light reigns.

Lithuanians who experienced the horrors of the war, calling themselves Little Birds of God (Dievo Pauksteliai stands for DP), laid the foundations of life in exile in the Displaced Persons camps and laid the foundations for further Lithuanian activities in emigration.

Shota Kalandadze's new movement in the cinema "cinema poems" this film reflects the Georgian legendary artistic personalities who are involved in this film through the eyes of Shota Kalandadze.

A beautiful, elegiac cycle expressing the boundless hope and infinite nostalgia of the voyage, consisting entirely of still images and painstakingly assembled into a emotionally moving pictorial essay. Periot: 'Remember that I am the cause of your journey. Don't lose me along the way.'

A documentary exploring the lives of the men and women on the International Gay Rodeo Circuit.

The autumn weather in a remote village of Caurel, in the mountains of Lugo, the slow time of the rain, the time to look for the fire...

Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologists. With meetings once a month at Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, this innovative Girl Scout program brings daughters together with their inmate mothers, offering them a chance to rebuild their broken relationships. Intimately involved with the troop for several years, the directors (Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein) took their cameras far beyond meetings to explore the painful context of broken families. Powerful insight comes from interviews shot by the girls themselves, which reveal their conflicted feelings of anger and joy, abandonment and intimacy-as well as the deep influence their mothers still have on them.

An attractive young man joins a cricket club and finds that the vice captain may have an unexpected vice...

A lyrical, energized portrait of an urban landscape in motion. Underground trains, streetcars, buses and escalators embody the impressionistic beauty of architectural reflections like moving paintings. The face of the city is rendered as a light-infused intersection of people, glass, and concrete. Part 1 takes place underground, with an audio collage mixed from ambient recordings of subway stations and trains. Part 2 takes place above ground and features an original score with gamelans, guitar loops, sampled car door locks and brake pumps. – KPR

Animation to the work of poet from Billy Collins

Half way through World War II, the United States Army Air Force began its own bombing missions over Germany. While the Royal Air Force relied on the cover of darkness to carry out its aerial raids, the USAAF preferred to attack by daylight, claiming greater accuracy and lesser threat to civilians.

Lee Marshall and Diamond Dallas Page host this IWA wrestling extravaganza, which features Kerry Von Erich, Jerry Lawler, Steve Keirn and many other greats rocking the foundation of Florida's Manatee Civic Center with one body slam after another in a fierce competition for the championship belt. Also climbing into the ring are Hillbilly Cousin Luke, Chief Jules Strongbow, Lightning Lou Perez, Hurricane Walker, Bambi, Peggy Lee Leather and more.

Vito After takes a vital look at the 9/11 health crisis by going beyond the headlines and focusing on one NYPD detective's personal struggle. Vito Friscia is a dedicated homicide detective and devoted family man who selflessly helped others on September 11th, then spent months sifting through toxic rubble hoping to bring closure to victims' families. The film follows Friscia as he copes in the aftermath with the support of loved ones and colleagues. Through this intimate portrait of an everyday hero, we find a powerful renewal of the human spirit, and insight into the lives of thousands of responders who are paying an emotional and physical price for their bravery.

Get an in-depth journey through a cornerstone of Western literature with this guide to Homer's Odyssey. Using a combination of text and imagery, Rocketbook serves as a companion to study for students junior high school level and above. Engaging quizzes and in-depth analysis reinforce comprehension of the epic tale that meshes fact and fantasy, a verse masterpiece that remains the foundation of classical studies.

This uncensored look at life in the projects travels to tough neighborhoods in Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Miami and Mississippi to illustrate the meaning behind the "Stop Snitchin' Movement," a street code that's short for "Keep your mouth shut." Footage covers Atlanta top-gunner Young Jeezy and an explosive moment at a TI show, as well as the truth behind the feud between hip-hop stars TI and Lil' Flip.

“Are not parents the role models that their children seek to emulate? And is it not the case that the entertainment industry increasingly seeks to usurp the role of parenthood for itself, with young viewers aspiring, more and more, to emulate the role models projected on the silver screen? In encroaching upon the role traditionally played by the parent, the media seeks and increasingly achieves the same effect desired by the parent: the reproduction of its own social values and political consciousness.” (Raimar Stange).

During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans were forced into relocation camps across the U.S. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas where racial segregation was at its height.

Ever felt theres more going on than you can see? Ever wondered why your walls are thicker than they have to be? In the unseen spaces live ... The Mechanicals.

Hailed as the most inventive guitarist since Charlie Christian, Larry Coryell is not only a hero, but a living legend of the guitar. This is fully an utterly deserved epithet for this godfather of fusion, a creator of subtle sounds capes and of riffs delivered at the speed of light that qualify as jewels of musical distinction! As he demonstrates once again in the framework of Three Guitars with Badi Assad and John Abercombie, two of the sharpest guitarists on the circuit who joined him on the stage of the New Morning in 2004, Larry is one of the most engaging personalities of the jazz scene today.

Five minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are getting ready. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems.

This one house all-encompassing anthology of United States lighthouses includes rare photos, live-footage from remote locations across the nation and exclusive interviews with maritime experts and lighthouse keepers. Enjoy the fascinating, informative and sometimes spooky stories about these icons of America.

The award winning film Eye Was Blind explores religious, interracial, family, and infidelity issues that exist in our society today.

Subs-in-training Olly and Beth ignore Diver Dave's warnings and spend the night in a haunted shipwreck in this animated series that introduces tykes to a spectacular underwater world. In the process, they learn about the environment and each other. In another episode included here, Ranger the Cowboy Seahorse comes to Suzy the Sea Plane's rescue when she becomes hopelessly entangled in a kelp forest.

The story revolves around 15 characters whose lives have been affected by many factors: war, disease, disability, addiction; shedding light on the fine line between reality and fantasy through ordinary events that take place in Cairo, where a war photographer is working on his first feature film.

42nd movie in the series

GRASSROOTS RISING, directed by Robert C. Winn, explores the re-emergence of Asian Pacific American labor activism in Los Angeles among people from all walks of life, from a Pilipino American domestic worker, a Chinese American laundry worker-turned-union activist, a Korean American restaurant waitress fighting wage theft, a group of Thai women forced to labor in an underground sweatshop, to Korean American and Mexican American grocery store workers fighting for safer working conditions. The film offers a moving tribute to the working class roots of the Asian American experience, focusing on the resurgence of grassroots political activism among the City of Angels’ Asian, Latino, and other working class families.

Caesar Eats a Mouse is the world's first political snuff film inhabited solely by animals.

A lonely lesbian attends multiple bars before going home with a woman.

Hare Mucki has watched a popular german movie and purchased a tabletop football through e-bay. He re-enacts the pivotal scene for his friend.

The film focuses on a group of people with various disabilities who are helped by the Hamburg-based association “Insel” to lead largely independent lives. We see them at home, at work, and at the “Insel” premises, where they meet every Thursday afternoon to drink coffee and talk.

The life of Raúl Sendic, the legendary Uruguayan guerrilla and union leader, is brought alive in the words of his comrades in the struggle, his friends and members of his family. In this documentary we learn about the rice plantations, the cane fields, his life in hiding, and the hard years he spent in prison.

Tak Giu is a cult film about soccer culture in Singapore. Having taken up the challenge of a friendly match, three soccer-crazy boys realize it is not easy to find a good, free public soccer field in Singapore, if there’s any at all. Through their journey they encounter obnoxious caretakers, locked-up fences, hot weather and a persistent policeman. Will they find their dream pitch?

... because it's Halloween.

Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare, reveals the insurgents behind the widespread revolt, their motives, and their tactics. The insurgency, he shows, is not a united movement directed by a leadership with a single ideological vision. Instead, it involves former regime loyalists, Iraqis resentful of foreign occupation, foreign and domestic Islamist extremists, and elements of organized crime. These groups have cooperated with one another in the past and coordinated their attacks; but the alliance between nationalist Iraqi insurgents on the one hand and religious extremists has frayed considerably.

Join TransWorld MX as they take you behind the scenes with the best racers and freestyle motocross riders on the planet. Features a variety of locations, from the legendary Castillo Ranch to the Mulisha Compound and everywhere in between. You ll see the pros in the business testing at top-secret locations, freeriders going huge in the natural terrain of Beaumont, Utah, Reche Canyon and more, and even score a pass into Ricky Carmichael s own backyard. Filmed entirely on 16mm film, Stone Spray Sandwich promises to be the ultimate moto film of 2005 and is packed with tons of bonus features.