CONTROLLING INTEREST offered the first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy.
Original version in Portuguese, with english subtitles A woman defies the odds, fighting for survival. Verônica Almeida suffers from a rare degenerative disease that limits her movements. In 2007, doctors gave her only a year to live. Following medical recommendations she started swimming.…
A small look into the after-effects of war on the human pysche, especially those suffering from PTSD. "Doomsday Machine" deals with war veterans suffering mentally in one of the permanent sanatoriums in Tehran, Iran. One of these veterans, Mahmood, is under the illusion that he has built…
*This film may be purchased by individuals for personal home viewing with family and friends only. It is strictly prohibited to screen, loan or broadcast for any group for either educational or commercial purposes. A film by Jennifer Abod US | 2016 | 73 minutes | Color -- An inspiring film by…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/the-hunters-p798.aspx From the !Kung series by John Marshall color, 72 min, 1957 This early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/headhunt-revisited-p984.aspx Michele Westmorland color, 76 min, 2017 in English Headhunt Revisited: With Brush, Canvas, and Camera is a timely story of an exceptional woman, a talented artist, and a respectful…
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, she traces the exotic world of…
Possible retrograde steps in battery hen conditions Let us be clear, 2018 hens are not now kept in conditions like these. Legislation has improved their conditions although by no means ideal as in free range. However in leaving the European Union we risk having these improvements done away with. One…
Director: Jan Louter | 2004 | documentary | art / history | 71 minutes | LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME is a documentary film about the Dutch etcher and painter Jan Montyn (1924), whose life was an almost surreal journey between war and peace, life and death, despair and happiness. Born into a devoutly protestant…
Four very different people talk about their problems and relationships. A divorced Englishwoman suffering from schizophrenia talks about her life, her drug dealings and drug trips, her times in prison, her attempts to find a satisfactory relationship, her hallucinations and her hopes for a new life.…
The death of the Ukrainian art scene under Stalinist occupation. Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living in the "Slovo House" in 1920s Ukraine. The communist paradise was built under Stalin's approval, but it quickly became…
Three people with problems talk about their lives. Does life begin at 40 or is this the start of the steady downward slope? A long-term unemployed Scot talks of the dramatic effects that this has had upon himself and his wife; the changes in the perception he has of himself as a person and upon their…
