"Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon," is a nostalgic look-back doc film from filmmaker Kevin Stirling, about the pivotal, historic, and decisively successful 1968 Christmas lunar mission. Audiences will recall the epic flight of Apollo 8, both for its historic achievements and the joy it gave to…
Still Life, winner Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2006, is an empathetic portrait of those left behind by a modernizing society and, as in director Jia Zhang-ke’s earlier films (Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World), it is a unique hybrid of documentary and fiction. In Still Life, great…
Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, United 93, Green Zone, The Square) as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad…
A sacred Buddhist journey into Ladakh, in remote far north India. At an altitude of 3,500 metres in a alpine desert, a colourful assembly of the Buddhist mountain clans comes together. When 150,000 pilgrims triple the population, flooding the capital of Leh, the multicultural town buzzes with life, to…
To acknowledge the 60 year freedom struggle of the Tibetan people and their leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, eight intrepid pilgrims trek into occupied Tibet, to walk around Mount Kailash (at over 5000 metres), Asia's most sacred Mountain. Confronting altitude, officialdom and their own…
In her postpartum pandemic special, comedian Ester Steinberg jokes about a risqué photoshoot and a wild bachelorette weekend, and shares stories from her first year of marriage, and giving birth in the epicenter of a global pandemic.
Produced by Lorne Michaels'' as a "Saturday Night Live" pre-empt TV movie in 1979, this insider classic stars Richard Lewis. A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself, a young New York…
Pandora's Box unmasks the global pandemic of menstrual inequality, pulling back the veil on the centuries of mistreatment. Here we witness the unforgettable stories of girls in Africa, India, and beyond, who lack education and access to period products. From Massai villages, to Mumbai and on to…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Joan Braderman 2009 | 95 minutes | Color -- Tracing the influence of the Women’s Movement’s Second Wave on art and life, THE HERETICS is the exhilarating inside story of the New York feminist art…
FOR HOME VIEWING ONLY. NOT FOR PUBLIC EVENT OR INSTITUTIONAL USE. WHEN AFRICAN AMERICANS CAME TO PARIS – FULL SERIES This exceptional two-part series of short videos by award-winning documentarian Joanne Burke brings to life the pioneering years of the African American presence in Paris. Each…
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After two weekends of trips in North Carolina during the month of April, Norfolk & Western J-class 4-8-4 #611 returned home for a reprisal of the popular half-day excursions that operated out of Roanoke, VA the previous year. These were the only trips of 2016 on home rails, and #611 would climb two…
