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Amy Winehouse: Fallen Star

2012

Amy Winehouse: Fallen Star

2012
3.8
A biography on the life of Amy Winehouse.
The Tents

2012

The Tents

2012
6
Each year, tents in Bryant Park herald New York Fashion Week, whose back story is as fascinating as the couture on the catwalk. Fashion's biggest names share the sometimes shocking, often funny rags-to-riches evolution of the iconic event.
Maya Deren, Take Zero

2012

Maya Deren, Take Zero

2012
5
This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.
Lacan Palestine

2012

Lacan Palestine

2012
Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial projections for centuries, amply on display here in waves of armed crusaders, legionnaires, Mongols on horseback and biplanes issuing state edicts from the end of a machine gun. There are maps by the galore, drawn and redrawn as occupied territories are bartered in foreign capitals. Contemporary art activists Velcrow Ripper, Elle Flanders, Tamira Sawatzky, Dani Leventhal and others have generously donated their keen lookings and these have been blended with newsreels, desert spectaculars, historical recreations and intimate encounters. Mike Cartmell appears as the ghost of psychoanalysis, offering ruminations on killing the father, John Coltrane and why enjoyment is difficult
Operation Sussex

2012

Operation Sussex

2012
6
A documentary about the infiltration by parachute drop of Free French by the OSS on the eve of D-Day.
Corta

2012

Corta

2012
5.2
An examination of sugar cane workers in the southwest of Colombia.
Ghosts of the Third Reich

2012

Ghosts of the Third Reich

2012
7
Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors.
Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery

2012

Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery

2012
9
In 2009 metal-detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert discovered the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure in the UK. Dan Snow travels across the old Kingdom of Mercia to unravel the secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard.
Kusa Pabha

2012

Kusa Pabha

2012
The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba.
Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort

2012

Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort

2012
5.2
Kutsher's Country Club is the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's has been family-owned and operated for over 100 years. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience-- and how it changed American pop culture in the comedy, sports and vacation industries-- this documentary captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes.
Son of Heaven

2012

Son of Heaven

2012
A young boy named Tulga is lost in a yak herd during the migration and raised in a wolf's den. A hunter finds the boy while searching for food from a wolf's den in the spring. As the boy grows up, he learns how to inherit the customs of his Mongolian people and how to improve his way of life.
Cine/Sine: Spanish Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

2012

Cine/Sine: Spanish Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

2012
Based on Nick Deocampo's award-winning book, Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, this digital documentary traces the beginning of cinema in the Philippines in 1897 when two Spaniards showed the first moving pictures in Escolta. Against the backdrop of war and revolution, film developed to become the emerging Filipinos' dominant form of public entertainment. The documentary further explores the elements of Spanish culture found in Filipino films as evidenced through the classic films made by three National Artists - Eddie Romero, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal. This is Deocampo's homage both to Philippine cinema and the Filipino nation that is its twin.
Otome Nadeshiko Koi Techou

2012

Otome Nadeshiko Koi Techou

2012
The story follows a 16-year-old girl who is experiencing her first love during Japan's Taisho period (1912-1926).
Afrika Korps

2012

Afrika Korps

2012
WWII in 3D

2012

WWII in 3D

2012
6.2
For the first time, you will see dramatic moments of WWII that were captured in 3D with stereographs and then shuttered away in secret archives and attics, until now. This stunning collection of color 3D photos includes Allied reconnaissance photos, a trove of images that documents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and photos secretly taken by a civilian in occupied France. WWII IN 3D also features an actual 3D motion picture film shot by the Nazis in 1943 and creates a fully immersive, three dimensional portrait of history's largest and bloodiest conflict.
Just for Fun

2012

Just for Fun

2012
A Century in The Sun: Henry Flagler & The Making of Modern Florida

2012

A Century in The Sun: Henry Flagler & The Making of Modern Florida

2012
A one-hour documentary that tells the story of how Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler came to Florida in the late 1800s, built a railroad and hotel empire on the last American frontier, and launched a population boom that lasts a hundred years.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

2012

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

2012
6.7
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.
Red Tails

2012

Red Tails

2012
6.6
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Here Below

2012

Here Below

2012
4.9
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.