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Sarasate: The Spanish Spirit

2020

Sarasate: The Spanish Spirit

2020
How did the life of the famous Spanish violinist and composer evolve and what inspired and influenced him to compose the works he created?
Maine Biographies: L.L. Bean

2002

Maine Biographies: L.L. Bean

2002
Profiling L.L. Bean, the Maine outdoorsman turned entrepreneur who created one of the most iconic brands in American history.
Together in isolation: the lockdown of the Faroe Islands

2021

Together in isolation: the lockdown of the Faroe Islands

2021
For almost one hundred days the Faroe Islands - a small and isolated Atlantic nation - were under the initial lockdown, struggling together to avoid fatal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marlene

2022

Marlene

2022
Barbara Marcel runs a film workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. Starting with a discussion of the film The Lion Has Seven Heads by Glauber Rocha (Congo Brazzaville, 1969), the filmmaker questions the relationship between her country, Brazil, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marlene offers an impassioned consideration of militant filmmaking.
Gone Before Her Time: When the Music Stopped

2022

Gone Before Her Time: When the Music Stopped

2022
Over the course of the two-hour special, GONE BEFORE HER TIME, we'll celebrate the controversies, influences, and legacies of five iconic female performers whose lives tragically ended just as they were at the peaks of their careers. These are vocalists so big, we only need their first names to conjure their music in our ears and beauty in our eyes.
A Hidden Star

2021

A Hidden Star

2021
When two women discover heartbreaking diary footage of their late friend, they journey to Ireland with her ashes, embarking on an odyssey through grief.
From the Hood to the Holler

2022

From the Hood to the Holler

2022
Charles Booker rode to the brink of one of the biggest upsets in political history. The documentary follows his campaign across Kentucky from the most urban to the most rural settings. Booker and his team rewrite the campaign playbook. They lean into the charge that average Kentuckians have common bonds, a unifying day-to-day struggle. That struggle is color blind. Booker fights to represent Kentuckians that feel invisible. His message is simple whether you are from the city “Hood,” or the Appalachian “Holler,” you are not invisible.
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963

David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963
The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...
My Life Over the Top

2015

My Life Over the Top

2015
"My Life Over The Top" Is the real rags-to-riches story of a self-made Kingpin turned Boss Pimp. From selling pots and pans for pennies, to moving kilos of drugs and pimping high-class prostitutes, Virgil defined what it meant to be a Hustler. This documentary depicts everything from the times he was living on top of the world with millions of dollars to the times he was sent to prison and had it all taken away. This is the success story of a man who, against all odds, was able to overcome the dangerous challenges of street life and the penitentiary. This is the story of a living legend as told by the first-hand accounts of numerous well-known cross-country pimps, hoes and kingpins.
Walk with Frank

2021

Walk with Frank

2021
A former Vietnam War infantry soldier decides to celebrate his 70th birthday by walking across New York State to help other survivors of PTSD while confronting his own demons.
The Exhibitionists

2022

The Exhibitionists

2022
Four friends dare to get locked in the National Gallery and discover only 25 per cent of art in the Australian collection is by women. Raiding the vaults, they uncover forgotten works of art and scandalous tales of sexism.
Midnight Massacre: The Donnelly Murders

2005

Midnight Massacre: The Donnelly Murders

2005
February 3rd, 1880. Lucan, Ontario. On a brutally cold night, a horrific plot is about to be executed. Using darkness to conceal their movements, a secret society made up of locals converges on the Donnelly homestead. Many are disguised to conceal their identities.
Back To Everest

2001

Back To Everest

2001
Dave Rodney's summit celebration is short lived as he immediately faces a terrible tragedy. Two years later watch as he attempts to summit again even while plagued by the horrible memories.
Through These Eyes

2004

Through These Eyes

2004
An American elementary school program from the 1970s, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), looked to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic to help students see their own society in a new way. At its core was The Netsilik Film Series, an acclaimed benchmark of visual anthropology from the National Film Board that captured a year in the life of an Inuit family, reconstructing an ancient culture on the cusp of contact with the outside world. But the graphic images of the Netsilik people created a clash of values that tore rifts in communities across the U.S. and revealed a fragile relationship between politics and education. A fiery national debate ensued between academic and conservative forces. hrough These Eyes looks back at the high stakes of this controversial curriculum. Decades later, as American influence continues to affect cultures worldwide, the story of MACOS resonates strongly.
Greece: The Road Taken

2015

Greece: The Road Taken

2015
An in-depth portrait of memoirist George Crane and poet Barry Tagrin, two renegade American intellectuals who have made homes on the beautiful, rugged and isolated island of Paros, Greece.
Anchor Point

2021

Anchor Point

2021
A feature documentary about badass women that rely on each other as they fight fire and gender-based discrimination.
Weekend With Bob

2016

Weekend With Bob

2016
Take a trip back to the summer of 1987 in Wildwood, New Jersey through Dance Party USA star Bobby Catalano’s weekend-in-the-life video diary.
Fun in the Big Country

1958

Fun in the Big Country

1958
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."
Solo

2022

Solo

2022
The Solo documentary reveals six unique stories of individuals who use the art of dancing as their own tool in fighting back difficulties, dealing with pain, incomprehension, and obstacles standing in their way to happiness through creative self-expression. Six young performers who belong to completely different styles - classical ballet, contemporary dance, krump, vogue, experimental hip-hop, pole dance - represent the new generation of Russian artists, free from preconceptions, clichés, and ready to be part of the dance revolution. The documentary format of the project looks at real people in an intimate setting and the behind-the-scenes routine of professional dancers.
After Sherman

2022

After Sherman

2022
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.