This film documents the history of the leading figures, institutions and events that transformed the American stage in the wake of Civil Rights activism. It includes interviews with Ossie Davis, Amiri Baraka, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange, and clips from many landmark plays
This Academy Award-winning documentary explores issues facing elders who raise their grandchildren. Big Mama, 90, takes on Walter, 9, after convincing welfare officials that "age has nothing to do with love."
This now-famous college town came to symbolize the era that shaped a generation and forever changed this country. Interweaving footage and music from the time with insightful recollections from 15 former leading political and cultural activists this remains the outstanding examination of the late 1960s.
Tormented by anxiety, depression and a life-threatening eating disorder, a teenage girl confronts her buried emotions through yoga. With infectious authenticity, I AM MARIS paints an unguarded portrait of mental illness and recovery, using Maris’ own words and vivid artwork to illustrate her…
ASK THE SEXPERT is a feature length documentary about a highly popular 93-year-old sex advice columnist, Dr. Watsa, who writes for a daily newspaper in Mumbai. Despite sex being a taboo topic in that country, the column’s brand of non-moralistic advice and humor has emboldened many to write in…
Throughout the early twentieth century thousands of European Jews sailed to Mexico looking for opportunity and escaping increasing persecution at home. A small group made their way north to the border town of Tijuana. Tijuana Jews is a documentary and a personal exploration of this community that blended…
A sensory ethnography on the Balinese cockfight Shot in the arid landscape of West Bali, Indonesia, Tajen, Balinese for cockfight, follows multiple narrative threads of this ancient spectacle– that of the blade, the rooster, the cockfighter. It is the moment when these elements come together…
Challah Rising in the Desert celebrates the history and people of New Mexico’s unique Jewish community. In this new feature documentary, braided Challah bread represents five waves of settlement of New Mexico’s Jewish community including Conversos escaping the Spanish Inquisition 400 years…
By wagon train and steamship, Jews began arriving in San Diego in 1850 when it was a small pueblo in the remote southwest corner of the U.S. Meet descendants of early Jewish pioneers, scientists, entrepreneurs as well as avant-garde artists, rabbis, and surfers in a living portrait of a vibrant and culturally-dynamic…
What would you do to transform your life? How far would you go for a metamorphosis? Would you drive, would you fly, would you run? The most elusive, elite multi-day race in the world, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, takes place in Queens, New York City each summer. This race is held around…
Garden Party: 31st May 2018 Film Length: 29:55 minutes Attended by: HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, HRH Princess Eugenie of York, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, HRH The Duke of Kent, HRH Princess Alexandra. Each year more than 24,000 guests from all walks of life are invited to…
"Subject Narcotics", a documentary for small town police officer education, was made by then UCLA students, Denis and Terry Sanders in 1952 with the cooperation of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Narcotics Detail.
