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The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman

2018

The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman

2018
6
The return of a young filmmaker to her home country, Cameroon, and her reunion with her mother.
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

2008

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

2008
6.2
This documentary provides a window into the extraordinary life of activist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who has worked to regain ownership of her country and its fate after years of colonialism. While gentle and thoughtful, Maathai carries a powerful message: the First World holds much of the responsibility for the environmental, economic and social struggles of the developing world.
Broken on All Sides

2012

Broken on All Sides

2012
The project began as a way to explore, educate about, and advocate change around the overcrowding in the Philadelphia jail system. It has come to focus on mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of race, poverty, and the criminal justice and penal systems. The documentary centers around Michelle Alexander's theory in her book, The New Jim Crow: since the rise of the drug war and explosion of prison populations, because discretion within the system allows for prosecution of people of color at disproportionately high rates, mass incarceration is a new version of Jim Crow. The movie also dissects the War on Drugs and 'tough on crime' movement, and offers possible reforms and solutions to ending mass incarceration and this new racial caste system.
Santiago: The Camino Within

2023

Santiago: The Camino Within

2023
The Camino de Santiago is a well-traversed pilgrimage route dating back to medieval times. Legend recalls that the remains of the Christian apostle St. James the Great were mysteriously discovered at Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain after having thought to be lost. For centuries, pilgrims have traveled the route, also known as the Way of St. James, for spiritual reasons. This film, The Camino Within, follows pilgrims along this Way. Sharing their stories and profound experiences about how walking the Camino changed them in different ways, viewers will be inspired to experience this pilgrimage as their own interior journey of discovery. Added Value (30 minutes) Bishop Donald Hying, the Catholic Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, and Fr. Jordan Berhouse (assistant director) host discussion with an audience on the campus of Ave Maria University.
Difficult

2020

Difficult

2020
5
Under Paris’ Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

2017

Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

2017
6.9
See how the world’s most influential chefs battle food waste through the eyes of chef-heroes like Massimo Bottura, Dan Barber and Danny Bowien.
The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz

2024

The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz

2024
FRONTLINE investigates the lives and views of Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz as they run for vice president. Drawing on interviews with those who know Vance and Walz well — friends, advisors, journalists and political insiders — the documentary traces how these two men from the middle of America found their opposing political voices and explores the ideas and influences they would bring to the White House.
Buying Sex

2013

Buying Sex

2013
6.4
Timely and wise, this feature documentary explores the state of prostitution laws in Canada. Buying Sex captures the complexity of the issue by listening to the frequently conflicting voices of sex workers, policy-makers, lawyers and even the male buyers who make their claim for why prostitution is good for society. Examining the realities in Sweden and New Zealand, and respecting the differences of ideology as Canada works its way toward an uneasy consensus, the film challenges us to think for ourselves and offers a gripping and invaluable account of just what is at stake for all of us.
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield

1968

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield

1968
3.7
Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage of her family in mourning.
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey

2018

Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey

2018
Feature documentary on the life, struggle, and teaching of world-renowned yogi BKS Iyengar.
His Parents

2024

His Parents

2024
7.3
The story of a couple whose child became a serial killer, convicted for 87 murders. Can they still love their son in the face of this unforgivable guilt? Can parents ever truly stop loving their child?
Tracking Satyrs

2022

Tracking Satyrs

2022
This is a contemporary interpretation of The Ichneutae by Sophocles, which, along with Cyclops, is the only Euripides satire that survived to our times.
Caesar's Writers

1996

Caesar's Writers

1996
On January 24, 1996, at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA, legendary comic Sid Caesar was reunited with nine of his writers from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. The event was taped for release on PBS and BBC in a 1-hour cut, and later on VHS and DVD in its full 2-hour length. Be prepared to laugh non-stop as the panel, made up of head writer Mel Tolkin, Caesar, Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben, Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin share stories about their time working on Caesar's shows and offer their insights about writing comedy.
Mercy, Love & Grace: The Story of Force Blue

2017

Mercy, Love & Grace: The Story of Force Blue

2017
Mercy Love & Grace is the story of six former combat veterans gathered together to train for their next mission: saving the oceans' coral reefs and in the process, saving themselves.
Challenging Churchill

2012

Challenging Churchill

2012
7
Churchill, a name typically associated with braveness and altruism. Recently found evidence from Soviet and British sources however brings up questions about Churchill's doings in the conferences of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. Why did he agree to give Stalin large parts of Poland? The story of two world leaders in times of war - it is also the story of Poland.
A Woman and Her Car

2016

A Woman and Her Car

2016
December the 31th, 2003. Lucie decides to write a letter to the man who abused her from the age of 8 to 12 years old and resolves herself to bring it to him in person, wherever he may be.
Scenesters: Music, Mayhem and Melrose ave. 1985-1990

2017

Scenesters: Music, Mayhem and Melrose ave. 1985-1990

2017
6
It was the 80s: Hardcore punk got too violent and started getting banned in clubs and venues, new wave died as well as the clothes and the first wave of metal became stale; we were looking for a new sound and a new look. Bored with what we knew, we ushered in Bands that lived harder and drank more than we did - bands like Hanoi Rocks, Guns N Roses, Jane's Addiction. It was freeing to be young and rock'n'roll - we changed the fashion and its rules, ran the town, set the scene and remade Melrose ave. our street. It was OUR time, Scenester's in Los Angeles. This 80 minute documentary goes back to the clubs, the scenester's, and the 'mover and shakers" of the time - the bands. A non-judgemental look at a musical movement that defined a generation and explained a culture.
Mothman: Beyond the Legend

2023

Mothman: Beyond the Legend

2023
Mothman sightings in varied locations worldwide challenge the idea that such entities are mere figments of imagination. Instead, they might be omens of change, or possibly entities beyond our current understanding.
Awoko

2021

Awoko

2021
Shot over one night in the loud, dimly lit printing press, this is the story of the men whose labour lies behind Sierra Leone's oldest daily newspaper.
Invisible Valley

2021

Invisible Valley

2021
Documentary profiles the lives of people who live in California's Coachella Valley.