From the lighting strike at liftoff, to the splashdown disaster that almost caused the first space flight fatality. APOLLO 12: UNCENSORED tells the true story of the Apollo 12 Moon Mission that NASA never told.
Filmmaker Chris Olsen explores the making of the Thodos Dance Chicago multimedia stage ballet “The White City: The Columbian Exposition of 1893.” The ambitious original work, co-conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director Melissa Thodos and Tony Award® winner Ann Reinking, brings…
*MIDWEST EMMY® NOMINATION (2008) Outstanding Contemporary Documentary Experience THE ARTSIDERS®, the groundbreaking documentary exploration of artistic life. Presented by award-winning filmmaker Chris Olsen, THE ARTSIDERS® explores the “art of making art” through intimate…
This film is no longer available for purchase on this site. To purchase and stream Disruption, visit http://disruption.vhx.tv A band of Latin American activist economists sets out to change their region, partnering with women marginalized by poverty to challenge accepted notions on how to eradicate…
Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building China's first global Internet company, Alibaba Group. An independent memoir written, directed and produced by an American who worked…
The Mystery of George Masa details the life of Masaharu Iizuka, (AKA George Masa) a Japanese immigrant who came to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina in 1915, where he focused his camera and his passions on preserving the beauty of the wilderness he discovered. Eighteen years after…
The Great American Quilt Revival is the story of how the craft of quilting became recognized as art and a force in popular culture. In The Great American Quilt Revival, a cast of today’s well known quilters, including the notable Georgia Bonesteel, plus historians and collectors, discuss their…
The thoughts and images from a single day in the life of a classic American scene. “An ode to the essential spirit of fishing.” “Why do we spend so much time doing everything else, when we could be doing this?” This short form documentary follows fishermen at the Oak…
Caribou Bones (1995) A documentary by Paul Bonesteel “What is true wilderness? I don’t know if I‘ve ever really been there. But I do know that this trip seems to have a gravity all its own. There is something undefinable that has brought us here, to a river, two hundred miles north…
The Adventures of Johny Utah; River Stories from a Different Point of View When released in 1997 The Adventures of Johny Utah became an immediate kayaking cult-classic, taking the genre into a surreal merger of documentary filmmaking and narrative storytelling. A decade and a half ahead of the GoPro…
Essential Boat Control was created with the intention of teaching paddling techniques and strategies for intermediate to expert paddlers. The film expresses the importance of whitewater kayaking elements including balance, speed and direction control. The foundation of solid boating skills are highlighted…
Travels with Claude (1995) -The music and ideas of folk singer Robert Hoyt In his fourth full length film, Paul Bonesteel documented Earth Week 1995, profiling folk singer and environmental activist, Robert Hoyt. In a journey that takes Robert and his orange tabby, Claude, from Chicago to Detroit…
