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- Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
- Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.
- KLM flight 4805 take-off without clearance and collide with the Pan American Boeing 747 in the same runway, this is the major air disaster in 1970's. 583 passengers and crew lost their lives.
- This 10-part mini-series is a sweeping account of the rise of Earth's continents. They are the product of a grand waltz of plate tectonics and the continual evolution of the earth's crust, assembling and separating.
- A history of the American public education systems, beginning in the late 1700s and working up to the present day.
- The 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment fought bravely and gallantly for the North during the Civil War. The regiment suffered well over 200 casualties during the battles of Bull Run, Edward's Ferry, Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Glendale, Vienna, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. It was the role they played at Gettysburg though that cemented their place in history. As the Gettysburg Sesquicentennial approaches we follow their story and ask: What was the Civil War really all about?
- Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in American society is the story of the millions of Mexico's men and women who experienced the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program intended to undermine farm worker unionization. Harvest shows how several million men, in one of the largest state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap, controlled and disposable workers. The documentary features the men and women speaking of their experiences and addresses what to expect from a new temporary contract worker program. The politics of the Bracero Program laid the foundation for Mexican workers to follow the path to the US. NAFTA further impoverished the farmers of Mexico, and another generation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans demand a just immigration policy. The film is profoundly relevant to deconstructing anti-immigrant policies, lending a historical explanation to the contemporary issues of immigration in the US and global debates on migration.
- In this documentary film, viewers learn about the life of Philip K. Dick including his early work as a pulp fiction novelist, his successful career with Hollywood, and his obsession with artificial intelligence. Friends and experts remember the man, his importance in the literary world, and the psychoses that drove his work. Hear excerpts of Dick talking about his own work.
- America's Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also the influence it has had on art, fashion, language, film and racial equality.
- A man from the Republic of Georgia who, against all odds, survives the horrors of World War II. He then goes on to transform a small coastal town in California through his passion for art, music and living.
- This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road - and especially of going off the beaten track - in American lore. The Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post-war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it; hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s and the current generation of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. American Road ultimately probes the meaning of what it is to be an American, not just a wayfarer.
- Features fascinating details on the Ping Fan research facility (Unit 731) in Manchuria, supervised by Japanese General Ishii Shiro and its use of American POWs and other human subjects for biological or chemical weapon experimentation.
- Journeying back to the dawn of Italian theater, this program unmasks the intriguing and often under appreciated tradition known as commedia dell' arte. Viewers will discover the history of Italian masked theater, the origins of commedia dell' arte and its various iterations, and the nature of its performers' improvised style. The program explains how the tradition's inspired characters-Pantalone, Colombina, Pulcinella, and many others-evolved and rose to prominence in the hearts and minds of 16th, 17th, and 18th-century audiences. It also illustrates how Italian masked troupes influenced countless other cultures as they performed across Europe, thus shaping the theatrical sensibility of western society as a whole.
- Most prison documentaries focus on the inmates. This sobering program features guards and prisoners alike, giving the viewer two interpretations of life at Ohio's Warren Correctional Institution. From the smallest detail-how cellmates rig a shabby partition around their toilet-to the cynicism and frontline sociology with which the corrections officers analyze their surroundings, the video clearly elucidates the effects of prolonged monotony and confinement on the human spirit. As one officer puts it, "Eight hours a day, I'm locked up here too."
- War, assassinations, riots at home and abroad, and a presidential election all consolidated into one year to change society.
- A film about the life of Ernest 'Papa' Hemingway. This film covers over forty years of Hemingway's life and brings audiences an interesting, compelling and entertaining film about Ernest Hemingway, one of our greatest literary artists. This tribute to 'Papa' Hemingway, reveals a vulnerable, deeply troubled man, whose fight with his own inner demons produced some of the greatest fiction of the twentieth century.
- New Orleans - The French Quarter - 1938. It rains heavily as a mysterious stranger walks into a bar and tells his story. He expects to see a woman murdered tonight. Again. He thinks she's a ghost, for he's seen her murdered twice. Each time by a young man...always a different young man... At the other end of the bar, the only other customer grows more and more tense, wary. He jumps up and bolts out...a young man.
- RETT: There is Hope was made with an extraordinary group of volunteers to help raise funds and awareness for the Rett Syndrome community. The story behind Rett Syndrome is complicated. It involves a devastating genetic affliction that starts with young girls and includes incredible family dynamics, groundbreaking treatment, care and science. The film focuses on Rett families, the optimism surrounding treatments and forward thinking scientific breakthroughs and the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT). The documentary highlights three families affected by Rett Syndrome. The Coenraads family lives on the East Coast in Trumbull, Connecticut. 14yr old daughter Chelsea was diagnosed with Rett when she was three. Chelsea is severely afflicted. In going through the painful process of finding a proper diagnosis for her daughter, mother Monica was driven to start RSRT and serves as it's Executive Director. The Epstein family lives in Pacific Palisades, California. Their daughter Hannah was diagnosed with Rett just a few years ago. The family has undergone a dramatic transformation in learning to care for Hannah whose symptoms are less severe than Chelsea. Just outside of London live Lord Christopher Wellesley and his family. He and his wife Emma have four children. Skye, their second youngest was diagnosed with Rett a year ago and since then the family has been focused on her care and the search for a cure. The family is followed while dealing with a feeding tube medical procedure being administered to Skye. The story of these families has a symbiotic relationship with many scientists around the world who are working on a variety of unique therapies to lessen the severity of Rett Syndrome and eventually cure it.
- THE SCOOP is a hybrid docuseries where host Jeanette Bonner investigates the stories behind NYC's local and independent ice cream shops and invites a top creative professionals to join her for a fun, high level conversation about their career in the entertainment industry.
- In LOST CHILD? filmmaker Gregory Ruzzin invites you along on a lighthearted journey as he uses his camera to bridge an ever-widening gap between himself and his developmentally disabled sister Alyssa, whom he sees only at obligatory family Christmases.
- This is the gripping story of three extraordinary people -- the world's first woman to become a man through surgery, the former Spitfire pilot who became Britain's first man to become a woman and the daring advanced plastic surgeon who carried out their sex change operations in the 1940s. Surgical gender reassignment is now almost a commonplace procedure, but then it was seen as "science fiction surgery" and when the news broke it was a sensation. Michael Dillon, originally called Laura, had persuaded the brilliant Sir Harold Gillies -- the founding father of plastic surgery thanks to his pioneering work with badly injured soldiers from both World Wars -- to carry out the female-to-male operation that no surgeon in the world had ever attempted. Both men then helped former racing car driver and wartime pilot Robert Cowell change his own gender and become a woman.
- Acting coach to some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Ivan Chubbuck explains her 12 step acting technique as outlined in the best-selling book, The Power of the Actor. This film features performances by Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Terrence Howard and others, as Ms. Chubbuck discusses and analyzes the anatomy of these Oscar nominated and winning performances.
- Buckle Your Bible Belts! 'Marking the Message' is a road trip following how Christian evangelism is stepping up its marketing campaign and rebranding itself to fit mainstream pop culture. Jesus bobbleheads and Christian wrestlers - blasphemy, profiteering, or just new ways of spreading a timeless gospel?