A Life among Monkeys’ tells the story of Smithsonian primatologist, Dr Wolfgang Dittus, through the unfolding narrative of the lives of the toque macaques monkeys, living among the spectacular ruins of an ancient temple in the heart of the Sri Lankan jungle.
In New York, late 2000, my father, Michel Cohen, was charged with twenty four counts of fraud and was facing 30 years in prison. Twenty years later, I tell the story of his escape with my mother, my sister and me. Our story.
Profiles Chinese American communities in three major U.S. cities amid historic downturns in their population. Residents, community activists, developers, government officials, and others with a connection to these vital neighborhoods provide their perspectives while the film explores the survival of ethnic neighborhoods amid urban development and gentrification.
What lies behind the violation of every rule? An account reliving the yearly ritual that takes place at the autodrome in Mugello where fifty thousand participants from all around the world descend in search of the extreme.
During divisive times in America, a man sets off on a cross-country bicycle journey, with no food, no money, and the hope of gaining a better understanding of the human connection.
The recent U.S. college admissions scandal is not merely an aberration in an otherwise virtuous system. It lays bare a US higher education culture in which wealth and influence remain the predominant values. RIGGED examines how this obsolete value system favoring wealth in our higher education system grows the disparity between rich and poor and thereby undermines the future of American Democracy.
In northern Montana is a massive wildlife sanctuary on track to become one of the largest, protected ecosystems in the United States: the American Prairie Reserve. Here, scientists and ranchers are working in partnership to restore these grasslands to their natural state. To do that, they must bring back the animals, starting with the keystone species: Bison. Enter America's heartland and witness surprising landscapes and never-before-filmed animal behavior, featuring sandhill cranes, swift foxes, grizzly bears, pronghorn antelope, and more.
After being alienated from her child in the aftermath of her divorce, a Filipino-Japanese mother finds she is not alone on her journey to be reunited with her son. She faces up to her own demons and joins a global generational cause – the right of all children to be loved by both parents.
Documentary film about musician Wayne Charvel who in 1973 started a guitar repair shop in his garage mostly handling overflow work for Fender Guitars. He moved his growing custom guitar/hot rod shop to San Dimas CA, did custom work for Deep Purple's Richie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin, for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, for Van Halen's Michael Anthony, and on. Word got out that this was the only place to get your guitar customized. Fast forward. In walks Eddie Van Halen who buys some (seconds) guitar parts neck and body and the rest is history. The story is captured with new, never before seen interviews with the artists using their voices and personal stories of Charvel.
This film reveals the Israeli attack on the 2010 Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of humanitarian ships which tried to highlight the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, and break its blockade. Shot from aboard the Freedom Flotilla, directed and narrated by one of its survivors and following up on subsequent media coverage, the film shows how the dead activists & their comrades who defended their vessels were portrayed. The film reveals what really happened and how it was spun in traditional and online media outlets.
InstaBAND is a documentary film about today's music artist and their hustle to try and achieve music stardom in a streaming world that no longer buys music.
In 1962 James H. Meredith became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. This film documents the life and times of one of America's greatest and most controversial civil rights icons.
Kicking the Hornet's Nest is a startling investigative look at a popular gynecologic device used to perform hysterectomies that has been inadvertently spreading cancer in patients for decades. The film follows two married Harvard-affiliated whistle-blowers as they mount a harrowing campaign against the medical establishment to expose the controversial practice and prevent future needless deaths.
With unprecedented access to the pioneering Uruguayan sculptor's body of work, Michael Gregory's documentary is the first comprehensive study of this prolific artist's legacy. Eschewing the tropes of the typical artist bio pic, the film is process-oriented; with extraordinary archival footage, expert interviews and thoughtful analysis of Fonseca's work, it conveys the passions which drove this truly renaissance man to work and live life on his own terms.
A "musician" explores how sound can be used for healing, as a weapon, and how the Nazis attempted to control the world by manipulating global audio standards.
In his abbreviated one and a half terms as Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin faced a maelstrom of challenges and made a handful of fateful decisions that led to both creating peace and launching a hubristic war. This multi-faceted portrait merges rare archival footage shown for the first time, as well as current interviews of key figures from Begin’s time as Prime Minister.