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An insight into the life of Indigenous singer Harold Blair, who achieved overseas success at a personal cost. In 1945, Harold broke free of the restrictions placed on his community to perform opera and begin to change the limitations of the era.
Take a virtual vacation to some of the Star Wars films' most iconic and beloved locations like Hoth, Tatooine, and Sorgan, as this charming series whisks you off for fly-through tours of the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
This short documentary addresses the global issue of climate change, highlighting its unequal impacts on rural communities in deltaic regions of both the Global South and North. While the Global North is a major contributor to climate change, its devastating effects are most felt in the Global South, particularly in regions like Trarza, Mauritania, where agriculture is severely impacted. Similarly, the Terres de l’Ebre in Catalonia faces rising sea levels and land erosion, threatening local livelihoods. These shared challenges provide a rich opportunity for youth from both regions to engage in dialogue and storytelling.
From deep behind enemy lines, a hidden chapter of American military history is uncovered, prompting the question of whether reckoning with the past can bring peace to those who lived it. The Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team reunites to tell their story.
The film shows the process of restoration of a Slovak Gothic wood-carving artwork of The Last Supper from Spisska Sobota, made by Master Paul of Levoca.
At the death of her mother, Aga decides to leave her life in Germany with her partner Maja to look after her younger brother in Poland. To do this, she has to hide her love for another woman from the authorities. Closely following its protagonists, Silent Love delicately narrates their discreet struggle against a prying and viscerally homophobic society.
In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
Documentary produced by and starring members of the Association of Former Detainees and Disappeared. Rather than the testimony of survivors themselves, the accounts of former detainees and disappeared are presented as informed and informative voices about the process of judicial impunity that ensures the freedom of those responsible for state terrorism in Argentina, from the final document of the Military Junta to the present day.
A student who doesn't want to leave college, a graduate looking for stability and a moonlighting teacher who can't sit still contemplate their lives in this collection of reflections on change, trying to make sense of a question. Do we still remain ourselves after the change?
Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers killed and seriously injured Roma children and adults. The state charged 4 men with committing the crime with racial motivation. This historical trial started March, 2011, and ended August, 2013 in Budapest. The 167 days of hearings was only documented continuously by our crew. We had exclusive permission to use multiple cameras in the court-room. The film is a classical chamber-drama, taking place in a small, claustrophobic court room, in the middle of Europe. What will be the outcome of the marathon, 3 year-long trial?
Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to ‘fight the spread of Communism’. Among those exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, they managed to write poems which describe the struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda speeches constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.
In August 1969, Charles Manson's followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspiracy of mind control, CIA experiments, and murder.
View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.
The behind the scenes events that led to the 1966 merger of the AFL and the NFL, and the immediate establishment of an "AFL-NFL World' s Championship of Professional Football" game (Super Bowl) following the 1966 Football Season.
Bygderadio Vest fights to survive on FM radio after all the other stations have switched to DAB.
