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- In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
- A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
- An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
- A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.
- Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. Trevor meets a beautiful blond, a detective sergeant and a pair of men running a junior football team.
- A small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village.
- The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
- In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.
- M is the most esteemed professional of the many girls at Scarlet's but, even on her birthday, it's business as usual. M's trade is sex, but sex doesn't sell the way it used to; what clients are searching for, paying for, is love.
- Blueprint America: Road to the Future, an original documentary part of a PBS multi-platform series on the country's aging and changing infrastructure, goes to three very different American cities - Denver, New York and Portland, and their surrounding suburbs - to look at each as an example of the challenges and possibilities the country faces as citizens, local and federal officials, and planners struggle to manage a growing America with innovative transportation and sustainable land use policies.
- A look at the life of Musa Hadid, the charismatic mayor of Palestinian city Ramallah, who aspires to lead the city into the future.
- How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic leaders of the neo-nazi organization NIM.
- Once a failing city that by 1990 had over 2,200 murders and 93,000 violent robberies annually, New York went on to be the revitalized word capital.
- A television documentary team tries to present honest programs about Ireland and about local government corruption.
- A satirical story based on Arto Paasilinna's novel about the bridge engineer Jaatinen and his activities in the municipality of Kuusmäki. Jaatinen gets along with the workers, but he is at odds with the municipality's decision-makers. The bridge engineer's private life is also a source of resentment.
- Langfang is one of the most air-polluted cities in China. There, the interests of the local environmental protection bureau, which is under political pressure, clash with those of industry. A case study on China's fight against pollution.
- An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists' struggle with local ranchers, environmentalists and state bureaucrats ends when the fence is unfurled, reuniting the community in a celebration of beauty. Nominated at the 1978 Academy Awards®.
- The theory of evolution and a re-write of American history are caught in the crosshairs when an unabashed Creationist seeks re-election as chairman of America's most influential Board of Education.
- A group of likeable eccentrics whose sense of their own culture sparks them to try to buy up their houses from developers. Contradictions abound. Affectionate comic sense deftly captures the afterglow of a generation.
- This dark comedy follows a corrupt city councilman whose life spins out of control after a mysterious cameraman begins terrorizing him. When no one believes that the cameraman exists, Larry comes to the conclusion that he's a character in his own movie. This inventive comedy satirizes political corruption and the power of ego.
- A European cameraman, who lives in Beijing and speaks fluent Chinese, travels to South China. His plans to interview a human rights activist and farmers suddenly come to a halt when propaganda officials stop him. The officials proudly tell him about their tight relationship with a forestry giant which plans to build a paper mill in the area. In the meantime the police arrest the human rights lawyer. The filmmaker gets caught into an absurd situation and is under surveillance for days.
- Portland, Oregon is the first and only city in the United States that has a juvenile form of government working in cooperation with the city. Annually a committee of prominent business men nominate representative boys for the candidacy of Juvenile Mayor, four Commissioners, and City Auditor. The commission form of government is used, and the Council, composed of the Junior Mayor and the Commissioners, elect a Municipal Judge, a City Attorney, a City Treasurer, a Clerk of the Court and a Chief of Police. The Junior Mayor and Chief of Police appoint 50 boys. The Junior Police Department works in cooperation with the regular department. They are supposed to assist police officers and to help the prevention of violating the law. The movement has had a widespread influence for the betterment of Portland, and many other cities are on the point of taking up the movement. Los Angeles, especially, thinks well of the idea. In the Nestor photoplay the parts of the Boy Mayor and his Secretary are played by Messrs. Eugene V. Rich and Earl R. Godwin, the actual holders of these offices.
- Because he helped refugees in need, the Kassel government president Walter Lübcke was shot at close range by a right-wing extremist. A political murder that hit society at heart. But this brutal act of violence is only one in a chain of many in the recent past in Europe. Words become actions. In the background, a network of right-wing terrorist organizations is pulling the strings. This documentation follows the traces of radical right-wing attacks in the heart of Europe and tries to work out connections.