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Dead Birds

1963

Dead Birds

1963
5.8
The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.
Wildflower: The Documentary

2025

Wildflower: The Documentary

2025
Honors student Christina balances school, track, and teen life while caring for her mom with a 59 IQ and supporting her dad. A powerful true story about sacrifice, disability, and the unspoken weight of growing up as a young caregiver.
Ballet

1995

Ballet

1995
7.6
Ballet portrays rehearsals, choreography, performances, business transactions, and other day-to-day life of the American Ballet Theatre. Much of the footage dates from the 1992 season. It also includes scenes from the company's European tour, namely in Greece and Copenhagen.
Luther: The Life and Legacy of the German Reformer

2017

Luther: The Life and Legacy of the German Reformer

2017
Discover the story behind the man who sparked the Protestant Reformation. Told through a seamless combination of live-action storytelling and artistic animation, Martin Luther's daring life is presented in extensive detail while still making the film relevant, provocative, and accessible.
The Jump

2020

The Jump

2020
7.3
In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.
Approved for Adoption

2012

Approved for Adoption

2012
7.3
This remarkable animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two cultures. Animated vignettes – some humorous and some poetic – track Jung from the day he first meet his new blond siblings, through elementary school, and into his teenage years, when his emerging sense of identity begins to create fissures at home and ignite the latent biases of his adoptive parents. The filmmaker tells his story using his own animation intercut with snippets of super-8 family footage and archival film. The result is an animated memoir like no other: clear-eyed and unflinching, humorous, and above all, inspiring in the capacity of the human heart.
MakeSHIFT

2020

MakeSHIFT

2020
Documentary film exploring the art and science behind the advertising industry's 20+ year evolution.
Private Universe

2012

Private Universe

2012
8
Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. "Private Universe" show not only the life of one ordinary family, but also how the Czech society has changed in last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where do we go?
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975
7.2
Thom Andersen's hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.
The Many Faces of Dracula

2000

The Many Faces of Dracula

2000
3.5
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
When Giants Fall

2015

When Giants Fall

2015
The ivory trade is a cruel business. Every 15 minutes an elephant is killed for its ivory. 65 percent of the continents elephants have been killed for their ivory in the last five years. Crime syndicates involved in gun, drug and human trafficking reap huge profits from the ivory trade. So do dangerous terrorist groups including Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army and al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab. These terrorists threaten the safety and stability of Africa and the national security of the United States.
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

2017

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

2017
5.4
Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.
Attack in the Pacific

1944

Attack in the Pacific

1944
Part of a a video series that documents the fighting between the United States and Imperial Japan during and immediately after World War II.
Courageous Warriors Beauty from the Ashes

2021

Courageous Warriors Beauty from the Ashes

2021
Courageous Warriors; Beauty From The Ashes is a tale of extraordinary women, young and old, who took their recovery from breast cancer a leap beyond medical diagnosis. They created new paths of wholeness through body, mind, and spirit. Now they offer those gifts to others.
1948

2018

1948

2018
Life After Flash

2017

Life After Flash

2017
5.7
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.
JFK: A President Betrayed

2013

JFK: A President Betrayed

2013
7.4
Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, "JFK: A President Betrayed" uncovers new evidence that reveals how JFK embarked on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro and was determined to get out of Vietnam despite intense opposition inside his own government.
Com as Próprias Mãos

2023

Com as Próprias Mãos

2023
Police reporter Luarlindo Ernesto is the only eyewitness to the creation of the death squad, the first Brazilian extermination group. 60 years later, young journalist Yasmin Santos researches the origins of the militia in Rio de Janeiro and, upon discovering that Luarlindo is alive, decides to track him down to try and convince him to tell her everything he saw.
Space to Be

2021

Space to Be

2021
6.8
In the heart of the Village, a loyalist area in Belfast, the Windsor Women's Centre has fought a 30-year battle to keep its doors open. An oasis for vulnerable women, the centre is deeply rooted in the community. As they face financial insecurity and navigate the pandemic, will they make it through their toughest year so far?
Tales from the Organ Trade

2013

Tales from the Organ Trade

2013
6.4
A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.