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Biography of E. Howard Hunt, CIA spy, paperback author, and Watergate conspirator. Beginning his career as a writer of fiction, E. Howard Hunt joined the CIA soon after its formation after the end of World War II. He turned his fertile imagination to composing plots for the CIA, notably in Guatemala,…
The moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states. Director : Diane Perelsztejn Photo : Philippe Vandendriessche Experts…
In the winter of 2010, Alison Bechdel is entrenched in the process of writing "Are You My Mother", a hauntingly personal graphic memoir about her mother, and a follow up of sorts to 2006’s award-winning "Fun Home." Known best for her decades-long comic strip "Dykes to Watch…
A TV-HOUR documentary that exposes one of the strangest and ugliest chapters in Canadian history as writer/director Andrew Wall confronts the anti-Semitism, fascism, and Nazism that existed during the 1930's in his home town of Winnipeg. Told through dramatic reenactments and interviews with…
A hilariously chaotic road trip where a paranormal believer takes a cynical skeptic to famous UK haunted locations to prove the existence of ghosts.
More than 150 young civil and voting rights advocates were forced to the Mississippi State Prison in Parchman in 1965. There they were subjected to abuse, punishment and humiliation just "to teach them a lesson." After 50 years, they finally told their story to our documentary team. James Meredith,…
In the summer of 1953, an expatriated trio of young Americans -- Peter Matthiessen, Harold "Doc" Humes and George Plimpton -- founded the international literary quarterly, The Paris Review. Designed to welcome "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders,"…
How a simple community confronts death. How do we view death? This film shows how a simple community confronts the experience, and how all the people are involved in their rituals and their grief; death is not something shut away. This study, made in a Yugoslavian village, should make us question…
My childhood in Brussels was dominated by my mother's political activism. Now, with 45 years of commitment weighing heavily upon her, my mother is starting to ask who will carry on her life’s work. As a descendant of the aristocratic Kurdish Cemil Pasha family, I face a pressing dilemma: should…
An in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and John Elliott (1930-2022) who was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at University of Oxford. This conversation provides behind-the-scenes insights into how an undergraduate encounter with a 17th-century painting of Count-Duke Olivares…
*This film may be purchased by individuals for personal home viewing with family and friends only. It is strictly prohibited to screen, loan or broadcast for any group for either educational or commercial purposes. A film by Jennifer Abod US | 2016 | 73 minutes | Color -- An inspiring film by…
