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My Life with the Living Dead

2024

My Life with the Living Dead

2024
MY LIFE WITH THE LIVING DEAD is a documentary feature based on the career of John A. Russo - the man who created flesh eating zombies and co-wrote the 1968 classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
Psychedelic Revolution: The Secret History of the LSD Trade

2023

Psychedelic Revolution: The Secret History of the LSD Trade

2023
Covert chemists and fearless visionaries risk their freedom to bring LSD to the masses during the war on drugs.
Breaking Balls

2017

Breaking Balls

2017
Breaking Balls follows three colorful figures involved in the game of bocce as viewed through the lens of the 30th Anniversary Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce tournament. The Challenge Cup is one of the largest bocce events in North America, and is held every year at the Wickliffe Italian-American Club in Wickliffe, Ohio, the last weekend of August.
Odyssey

2023

Odyssey

2023
Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical, creative and intellectual skills. With little money and zero adult participation, the teens build a robot to tell a story about bullying, exclusion and mental health. But how does their solution measure up?
The Game of Crowns: The Victorians

2023

The Game of Crowns: The Victorians

2023
Delve into a world of dynasties, blood feuds and civil war, where brother battles brother, uncle kills nephew, and cousin executes cousin in the race to decide who wears the bloodstained crown of England. Though the Victorian era is characterised by the steady rule of one monarch, it was a time of great trouble for the English monarchy. Queen Victoria will preside over Irish rebellion, republican uprisings and Indian Mutiny, in a battle to maintain the crown's power and security in a rapidly changing world.
Wallis & Meghan: American Duchesses

2023

Wallis & Meghan: American Duchesses

2023
Meghan Markle, Californian, Former actress and wife of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Wallis Simpson, American socialite and wife to Prince of Wales Edward VIII, both had an undeniable love for their husbands. Following news from the press, both duchesses would receive immense scrutiny amongst the British public and tabloids once marrying into the royal family. Wallis Simpson was an American socialite who had been married twice when she met Edward, Duke of Windsor (then the Prince of Wales), at a party.
Welcome to Soldier Ride

2014

Welcome to Soldier Ride

2014
A bartender and two wounded veterans ride their bikes from California to New York to raise awareness for wounded service members coming home from war.
Calvin, Zwingli, and Brother Klaus

2017

Calvin, Zwingli, and Brother Klaus

2017
John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and Brother Klaus (Niklaus von Flüe) were three very different men who shaped the Christian faith in Switzerland. With this docudrama, award-winning filmmaker Rainer Wälde celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the 600th anniversary of the birth of Brother Klaus, Switzerland’s most famous saint.
Fork Your Diet

2019

Fork Your Diet

2019
A pair of wellness physicians help show two middle-aged patients that it’s never too late to embrace healthy habits and turn their lives around.
Give Me Your Hand

2023

Give Me Your Hand

2023
They are afraid of life itself, but they perform a feat every day. They are difficult to control, but they control others. They are children with special needs who have become heroes of their city. Their choreographer socializes them through dancing and gives love to more than a hundred others. So what happens if hundreds of them fall in love?
Troublemaker

2022

Troublemaker

2022
Alexander Zinoviev gained worldwide fame primarily as a logician, sociologist, writer, author of the genre of sociological novel created by him, who marked new milestones in each of these areas of human culture with his work. Poetry and visual creativity of the thinker complement the image of what is called the Zinoviev phenomenon.
Discovery of Art: Kurt Schwitters

2000

Discovery of Art: Kurt Schwitters

2000
This documentary provides a detailed look at the works of the German artist, now best known for his collages and junk sculpture. Schwitters began painting as an expressionist, but in 1919 he turned to collage, incorporating into his works trash such as train tickets and newspapers, which he exploited for their colour, texture, and surprise value. Includes many of Schwitters' most famous creations filmed during an exhibition of his works at the George Pompidou Museum.
The Real Lost World

2006

The Real Lost World

2006
A modern team of explorers venture to the legendary "Lost World"- the remote jungle plateau of Roraima in Venezuela. Cut off from time and the jungle below, feared by natives because of "evil spirits", flying reptiles and other beasts, Roraima has sparked human imagination since the time of the 19th century explorers. Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his book "The Lost World" (1912) about men and dinosaurs on the tales from early explorers to this plateau. This was the inspiration for Jurassic Park. The modern expedition team encounters the animals, people and extreme habitat on its route across the Gran Sabana and up the 9000 ft. mountain. Once there they explore a new cave system, that may well contain new forms of life.
Runaway Radio

2024

Runaway Radio

2024
Once upon a time, before our lives went fully digital, radio entertained, informed and dictated what was cool through theater of the mind - and with that Houston's 101 KLOL played a big role in the lives of rock radio listeners. The forthcoming documentary "Runaway Radio" focuses on the legendary outfit - starting in 1970 as a progressive rock station, where DJs played whatever they wanted, to how it evolved into one of several wild Album Oriented Rock (AOR) stations across the country, where on-air personalities were sometimes bigger than the music itself. In the film acclaimed musicians such as Lyle Lovett, ZZ Top's Dusty Hill, Melissa Etheridge and Sammy Hagar along with top radio DJs from across the US reflect on how the medium changed their lives and the lives of devoted listeners. Yet in the end, changes and pressures from Washington, the music industry and Silicon Valley led to the station's, and much of the format's, demise in the 2000s.
Birthing at Home

2009

Birthing at Home

2009
Alexis is a 32-year-old white woman married to Alain, an African from Rwanda. This documentary focuses on Alexis giving birth in her parents home. As her parents and great-grandmother look on, a calm mid-wife delivers ten and a half pound Jazmine. The documentary is Interspersed with interviews with Alexis, her husband, Alexis' parents, the soon to be great-grandmother and the midwife.
Imagraphy

2019

Imagraphy

2019
Step inside the minds of 16 international masters of photography. They share stories behind their most iconic images and techniques whilst learning their impressions of our world as seen through their lenses.
Out

2006

Out

2006
A young woman on the run encounters a man who seems willing to help.
Mr. Everything

2022

Mr. Everything

2022
This documentary follows an African-American man living in Hollywood, California. They said you can't do it all, until he came into the film industry.
Ghosts of Portal 31

2018

Ghosts of Portal 31

2018
The Crypto Files investigates claims of paranormal activity at Portal 31 in Lynch Kentucky. The Third film in the Crypto Files Series.
Katahdin: The Mountain of the People.

1998

Katahdin: The Mountain of the People.

1998
This documentary explores the history, geography and folklore of Mount Katahdin, the tallest and most treacherous mountain in the state of Maine.