"The finest educational and inspirational film on the subject of childbirth that I've ever seen" - US author, Suzanne Arms. The Face of Birth gives us a 'big picture' look at the importance of respecting and protecting a woman's right to choose how, where and with whom…
Adorned in pink sequins, little girls from all over a divided, war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role of a national hero whose tears of joy once united their troubled country, the gold-winning figure skater Oksana Baiul.
An award-winning documentary about how Rwandans use photographs to remember the loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Survivors, relatives of victims and professional memory-makers share their images and stories of violence and survival. The Faces We Lost is one of the few films…
Walker takes us on a personal journey into a world of myth and imagination that he learned from his grandmother. He travels from the Moors of Devon and the Highlands of Scotland to the brooding Celtic landscapes of Ireland and the intimate hills of Cape Breton, in his search of this potent “otherworld”…
"All this is healing, all this is medicine. All this changes who you are." - Rodney Stotts, Master Falconer. The Falconer captures beauty and hope in a story of second chances: for injured birds of prey, for an abandoned plot of land, for a group of teenagers who have dropped out of high…
Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck was fascinated by space travel, he began to think about a work of art on the moon. On August 2, 1971, Apollo 15 Commander David Scott secretly placed a little plaque and a small sculpture in a crater to commemorate those astronauts and cosmonauts who lost their lives.…
In the fall of 1955, a gay sex scandal erupted in the unassuming, wholesome and "vice-less" town of Boise, Idaho, as teenage boys who had prostituted themselves to older men began to disclose their dalliances to authorities. Overnight, Boise's homosexual underworld-comprised mostly of…
In September 1998, Newt Gingrich was one of the most powerful men in America. During the next six months, he led his party through a disappointing election and the impeachment of the President of the United States. Then he resigned and became a private citizen, while the President he battled remained…
This film is the story of the final weeks of the Occupy LA camp in 2011. It's not a definitive story by a long shot, but it's told from the inside. The division, the mistrust and the eventual fall of the camp itself. What ended in LA, began in New York. On September 17, 2011 Occupy Wall…
A Film by Curtis Choy: After a decade of spirited resistance to the razing of Manilatown, the battle for housing in San Francisco ends in the brutal eviction of the elderly tenants of the International Hotel. "The Fall of the I-Hotel" serves as the witness to the community's fight to…
A history of humankind's interactions with Niagara Falls, from initial awe, to harnessing of the Falls' power, which leads to the destruction of nearby areas such as Love Canal.
For over a thousand years they trudged through the winter landscape, steam rising off the horses broad backs, fur clad men urging them on as they pulled the heavily loaded sleds along the winter trail. Like today’s truck drivers hauling goods across the country, these trail drivers transported…
