Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her.
In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened a small public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where 1/3 of residents live below the poverty line and the graduation rate is 40%. With infectious optimism, O'Brien and his team of…
Pulp Fiction profiles a fantastic avenue of escapism for people of the 20s, 30s, and 40s, who wanted to escape the mundane routine of their daily life in the grips of the depression between the two World Wars, by buying cheap fiction magazines. These writers of the golden age of fiction writing shaped…
On June 18th, 1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. Her accomplishments came to symbolize women’s achievements in an all male-dominated fields and overnight she became one of the most famous women in American History. The film is the story of Sally Ride a woman space…
Features the crew of HEART Films exploring the backcountry on snowboards, skis and sleds to bring you powder filled adventures. Captioned for the global audience. Check out more at: www.heartfilms.com ■ Starring Takafumi Konishi, Futa Adachi, Yuta Watanabe, Tomohide Inoue, Kazuumi Fujita, Yu…
Combining history, remarkable diving sequences and the US navy salvage operation, this documentary brings to light a top secret WWII weapon and a forgotten event that led to the liberation of Italy.
Big Wind is a surprising and compelling documentary about the unprecedented rush to develop industrial wind turbines and how this is transforming the landscape in Canada and the world. The film investigates why governments are spending billions on wind power without first conducting health and environmental…
Devout Australian Catholic, Geraldine Doogue makes her Pilgrimage to Jerusalem during the spectacular Easter celebrations of faith for Christians and Passover for Jews. At the epicentre of the Christian faith, she joins hundreds of thousands from all over the world. For Geraldine this is a very personal…
Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour investigate the organ harvesting trade in China and uncover one of the world's worst crimes against humanity. *74th Annual Peabody Award Winner *AIB Award 2015: Best International Investigative Documentary *FRONTLINE Michael Sullivan…
After a few seconds of footage from 1968 of the artist working, this powerful film moves into 1976, providing an intimate look at the enigmatic abstract painter, Brice Marden. Shot in 16mm shortly after Marden's 1975 exhibition at the Guggenheim, this film reveals, through interviews with Marden…
All great art engages in a dialogue with the past. Architecture is no exception, as this film shows in its examination of the legacy of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), an English architect of rare genius whose influence on a generation of America’s foremost architects is profound. Among them,…
C’est à 30 ans, après avoir parcouru la planète, qu’Olivier et Mélanie réalisent qu’ils entretiennent des liens avec le bout du monde alors qu’ils n’ont jamais posé les pieds dans une réserve indienne, chez-eux, au Canada.…
