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- A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- Through their past incarnations, present-day characters trace Thailand's history from Ayutthaya's prosperous period to the reign of King Taksin.
- Breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns. Countless women and men walk, bike, climb and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause," becomes obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success.
- The mortal ferocity of the battle for control of the small bridge at La Fière is testament to the bridge's strategic importance in the D-Day invasion of June 1944. Without control of the bridge, American forces coming from Utah Beach would not have been able to force their way inland.
- Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...
- As One traces the journey of ten children with Autism and their special families as they struggle and triumph with Autism in the United Arab Emirates.
- A very engaging short documentary of how a native Indian from Quebec works building skyscrapers in New York City, with breathtaking shots of walking on narrow beams 25 stories in the air, as well as a chilling recounting of the death of numerous Indian iron workers building a bridge in Quebec in the early part of the century.
- This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones also represents an East German reflection on Nazism. Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer living in Germany, is falsely accused of killing his booker. Even when the real killer's identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum's innocence. The film explores German reaction to the trial and investigates the relationship between the legal system, antisemitism, and fascism, providing insight into the historical context that allowed Nazism to flourish.
- This documentary examines the 1948 episode of the Altalena, a ship whose fate nearly incited civil war in the newly-established State of Israel. Immediately after Israel attained statehood, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion established a national army into which several independent Jewish defense forces, small armies with their own political philosophies, were supposed to unite. However, on June 20, 1948, the Altalena arrived off Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees and a stockpile of ammunition amassed by the Irgun (one of the independent defense forces) in direct violation of Ben Gurion's new military chain-of-command. In the midst of the ship's landing and a cease-fire in the War of Independence, Ben Gurion gave the order to shell the ship, forcing Jews to fire on Jews and almost sparking a civil war. The late Yitzhak Rabin was one of the participants in this event and is interviewed here along with many other eye witnesses. The controversy surrounding the Altalena affair continues to reverberate in current Israeli politics.
- "Willa Cather has long been one of my favorite authors, so I was pleased to share my fondness for her literature in this film. I trust all who watch this new documentary will be captivated by Cather's life and the complex world that inspired the enduring stories conveyed in her fiction." - Ken Burns. Willa Cather defies convention. She was both a regional writer and an international literary superstar; her novels and stories transported readers to a lowly frontier dugout or an elegant theater loge with equal adeptness. For more than one hundred years, Cather's deeply human characters and stories rooted in her own American experience have resonated with readers, and now Cather's enduring reputation has earned her a place in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol. This short film chronicles Cather's pursuit of literary acclaim alongside the creation and unveiling of her statue in Washington, D.C. Using archival imagery, Cather's own words, and observations from contemporary readers and scholars, this documentary invites viewers to revisit and reexamine Cather's importance to American literature and encourages exploration of her life more fully through literary pilgrimage.
- This feature film uses Michael Crummey's seminal piece of Newfoundland literature to examine cultural change and modern relationships. As in Crummey's collection of poems and stories, there is a decisive theme of the artist investigating his ancestors to discover himself. Filmmaker Justin Simms offers viewers a timely reflection on compassion, storytelling and identity.
- This film traces the story of the German-Jewish Auerbach family of Oppingen, Germany, from 1933 through 1945. The film begins with home movies in the 1930s and follows Inge Auerbach from her hometown to her deportation to Theresienstadt, where she suffered for 3 1/2 years and was among the 100 children who survived. Rare footage is accompanied by on-camera interviews of Inge and her mother on a return visit to their town, and to Theresienstadt, where an amazing amount of photographs and documents were saved. Interviews with former Nazi Party members, townspeople, and the switchboard operator from Theresienstadt are conducted by German high school students and exposes German citizens who attempt to deny and conceal their involvement in the Holocaust.
- The story of Estibel, a 11 year-old migrant child, inside one of the largest child detention centers in the United States, who is awakened to the realities many young children are facing today, under the supervision of ICE.
- Made in conjunction with the exhibition Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, this 17-minute documentary explores the career of an exceptionally versatile artist. Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) gained fame as a sculptor whose masterpieces in bronze rival ancient sculpture in their naturalism and expressiveness. A favorite of the Medici, the de facto rulers of Florence, Verrocchio was also a celebrated painter and draftsman whose workshop became a training ground for the preeminent painters of the High Renaissance, including his apprentice and pupil, Leonardo da Vinci. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Glenn Close, the film includes new footage of the original settings of the artist's works in Florence, Pistoia, and Venice. Produced by the department of exhibition programs, National Gallery of Art. Support for the film was provided by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC. The film was also made possible by the HRH Foundation.
- A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete with singers, dancers, comedians and impressionists. The show concludes with a fervent musical tribute to the year-old State of Israel. Filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, New York and includes glimpses of the golf course, tennis matches, calisthenics classes and sunbathers.
- In 1959, at just nineteen years of age, Harry Jerome was Canada's most promising track and field star, and was on his way to the Olympics in Rome. By 1962, after suffering a gruesome leg injury, there was every reason to think that his racing days were over. But Jerome was not just a champion on the track; he was doubly determined off it. And so began his climb to what his coach, the legendary Bill Bowerman, called "the greatest comeback in track and field history." Through years of unparalleled political turbulence, personal challenge and racial conflict, Harry Jerome kept his head down and ran, displaying a strength of character and willful perseverance every bit as impressive as his record-setting athleticism. Filmmaker Charles Officer uses gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage to tell the runner's triumphant story, from his early days in North Vancouver, through his three Olympics and his unequalled streak of record-breaking, to his sudden and tragically premature death. Family, friends and teammates recall a man who forever changed the Canadian sports landscape and made an indelible mark upon the world. Compelling, surprising and urgently paced, Mighty Jerome will electrify sports fans, history buffs and all those with an appreciation for tales of courage and redemption.
- Angst looks at the lives of three Jewish comedians--Deb Filler, Sandy Gutman, and Moshe Waldoks--whose parents are concentration camp survivors.
- The history and culture of the Anasazi are depicted and related to their descendants, the present day Pueblo peoples in the American Southwest: this film gives an overview of the weaving mythology, archaeology, and ethnography together.
- Docudrama featuring reenactments of the most significant events of the deportation of the Acadian people, the film revisits their journey from the 17th century to the end of the 18th century from the Atlantic region of Canada to Louisiana.
- Focuses on three elderly Jews living out their retirement years in Miami Beach. They talk of searching for the fountain of youth, about the Jewish community that has thrived in this unlikely setting, and the inevitability of growing old and losing friends. Captures the subjects' thoughts and memories, as well as the contrast between the older and younger populations of modern Miami Beach.
- The title is a direct play on Rene Magritte's 1928-29 series aptly known as "The Treachery of Images." Coincidentally, that series was created at a time when most were beginning to suffer the effects of the Great Depression. Originally filmed as part of a project called '140' Kotek attempts to capture his environment in 140 seconds (a construct held in reference to Twitter's 140 characters) using both old media and new media, and to film the results side by side using the appropriate slide show "technology."
- Milton Acorn left Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter, and wound up in Toronto as one of Canada's most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures. Dubbed "The People's Poet" by fellow poets, he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1975. Burned out by personal crises, Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981. This film, brings out Acorn's wit, love of nature, unorthodox political views, and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions.
- Suddenly through Giorgos Messalas' life, the history of modern Greek Theater started passing before our eyes.
- For the people of Mandak region, New Ireland,the most dramatic and complex ceremonial events are those surrounding death. The creation and presentation of the Malangan Labadama with its carved figures, masked dancers and feasting is the final tribute by three brothers to a deceased clansman and former leader.
- The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, as he left a peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords plunged the country into mourning. That the gunman was a 25-year old Israeli opposed to the peace accords and whose aggression was encouraged by the rhetoric of homegrown Israeli groups further complicated the event's fallout. Rabin: Shivah in November documents the assassination's aftermath as it occurred, recording the chaos surrounding the shooting, the spontaneous acts of public mourning and the various political and personal responses of Israel's leaders and citizens.