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Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare

2010

Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare

2010
Declared wards of the state, Native Americans were promised housing, education and healthcare in numerous treaties with the US Government. Like so many other federal promises, these too have not been met. The budget shortfall to the Indian Health Service continues. Add to this generational trauma of subjugation, reservations, boarding schools and alienation, their health and their healthcare is in a critical state. This is the story of the program's inception of our government's obligation to America's first people.
Der große Weinskandal

2025

Der große Weinskandal

2025
Paquidermo

2025

Paquidermo

2025
In the municipality of Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, there is a secondary school that is the target of stray bullets due to frequent clashes between organized crime groups in the vicinity of the campus. A meeting of teachers reveals a decline in student enrollment due to this situation, which could lead to the school's closure. Based on observations of daily life at the school and various interviews, a complex reality emerges involving art, education, and insecurity in Mexico.
The ABC of Internal Combustion Engines - The Automobile Engine

1948

The ABC of Internal Combustion Engines - The Automobile Engine

1948
The second of the Power Primer series of GM American Industrial Films, this one looking at the automobile engine.
Paths

2025

Paths

2025
A teenage boy and his grandmother each follow their own story — his shown through everyday moments, hers told through voice-over poetry. Their separate paths come together briefly before continuing on.
Architecture: A Performing Art

1979

Architecture: A Performing Art

1979
This is the story of John Andrews, world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough College at Toronto University. One of the world’s first ‘megastructures’, it was an important experiment in urban and educational planning. Andrews also designed the Canadian National Tower in Toronto, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the world at the time it was built.
Understanding

2024

Understanding

2024
Have you ever felt truly understood by someone? What was it like, and how did it feel? Was it real, or did it just seem that way? This film is my exploration of mutual understanding—delving into my own thoughts and engaging with people I met on the streets of St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Colombo, and Tashkent.
Magnificent Burden

2016

Magnificent Burden

2016
Former NY socialite Taylor Stein becomes entangled in an international baby trafficking ring and goes undercover for the FBI to save a little boy. When a terrible discovery threatens his life she's thrust into the world of genetic technology and a high-stakes battle between Big Pharma and saving lives.
Luce mia

2016

Luce mia

2016
It was the spring of 2010 when I discovered that I was ill with leukemia. I was 29 years old and had never been in a hospital before. The fear, the chemotherapy, the waiting. After six months, everything seemed to be getting better, and a year and a half later, my first daughter, Nora, was born. So, three years later, I decided to return to the ward where everything had begun, to try to make sense of what had happened to me. Inside those rooms, I met Sabrina, who was going through what I had experienced. "Leucemia" is the story of our meeting, our journey together, and our shared experiences. It is the story of our friendship and our leukemia. (The author)
The ABC of Internal Combustion Engines

1947

The ABC of Internal Combustion Engines

1947
Another of the Power Primer series of GM American Industrial Films, this one looking at the internal combustion engine.
Histories Of The Holocaust: Dachau - Liberation And Retribution

2011

Histories Of The Holocaust: Dachau - Liberation And Retribution

2011
The inhuman brutality and bloodshed that was endemic at Dachau - Nazi Germany's first concentration camp - did not come to an end with its 1945 liberation, for this dread place proved capable of triggering a spate of vengeful retaliation not only by its half-crazed prisoners, but their rescuers. Chapels of various faiths, memorials and sculptures now mark the camp's sites of execution and torture.
A Normal Life

2024

A Normal Life

2024
A NORMAL LIFE shows the personal everyday life of four Bosnian women who were forced to flee their home country due to the consequences of the Yugoslav Wars and have been working as cleaning women in Vienna ever since. We get personal insights into their lives, their work, their urge to build a new life and their personal way of overcoming trauma.
Pipe Dream

2024

Pipe Dream

2024
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For decades, Theo Jansen has toiled on the beaches of the Netherlands in his quest to make his beloved Strandbeests self-sufficient. But what happens when, as the artist pursues his dream to create new life, he starts to feel his own slipping away?
Las guardianas

2024

Las guardianas

2024
Karla is 26, the only female heir of a long tradition of Basque farmers and the first to leave the country in search of a different life. But when her mother dies, she has to come back and decide what to do with her future and the family legacy.
Never Enough

2010

Never Enough

2010
Michele Gitlin has 700 sweaters. In touch with the pain as well as the pleasure of over-collecting, she calls Ron “Disaster Master” Alford for help. Ron, a de-cluttering expert who believes that “clutter begins in the head, and ends up on the floor,” determines that Michele is a hoarder with a rating of 8 (out of ten) on his “clutter index.” Ron also visits a retired Marine with 7,800 Beanie Babies and a home shopping addict whose purchases are literally burying him. Never Enough is a meditation on materialism, consumerism, mental illness and the social fabric of our lives.
Children in No Man's Land

2008

Children in No Man's Land

2008
Children In No-Man's Land is an award-winning documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the United States. The film will give this timely political debate about the U.S.-Mexico border a human face by exploring the stories of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene (12) as they attempt to cross the US/Mexico border alone to reunite with their mothers in the Midwest. Focusing on minors crossing through the Sonora Desert area in Nogales, Arizona, this film will explore every detail of these children's journey as well as the journeys of other children we meet on the way as we uncover in an intimate and personal way where they are coming from, what their journeys have been like and how they've gone about it, through to the arrival at their destination their new home, The United States of America.
With a Stroke of the Chaveta

2007

With a Stroke of the Chaveta

2007
WITH A STROKE OF CHAVETA takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the survival of the collective reading of literature while “tabaqueros” roll cigars. We learn how through "la lectura de tabaquería" cigar workers have been entertained, educated, and maintained a sense of class solidarity. Current day cigarmakers tell us they can’t imagine a workplace without their beloved “lectores.
Postcards from Babylon - Evangelicals in the Shadow of Christian Nationalism

2021

Postcards from Babylon - Evangelicals in the Shadow of Christian Nationalism

2021
Based on the popular book of the same name, the film begins with author Brian Zahnd some 350 miles into his 500-mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. He walks “the Camino” in spiritual pilgrimage as preparation for the mental mayhem of the polarized political climate in America. It’s against the backdrop of the elections that Zahnd exposes how the church in America has succumbed to the seduction of empire and has entangled Christianity with the Red, White, and Blue.
Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space

2013

Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space

2013
In early 2013, meteorite bigger than a double decker bus, travelling at 40,000 miles an hour, crashed into planet Earth. This film shows previously unseen footage of what happened. Astrophysicists explain exactly what it was and reveal how likely it is to happen again.
The Nature Makers

2020

The Nature Makers

2020
In a world increasingly dominated by humans, three teams of wildlife conservationists go to unnatural lengths to try to save threatened species and habitat in the American heartland.