This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.
Pyotr Grigorenko spent more than ten years as prisoner in the Soviet Union because though he never lost his Communist beliefs he critcised the government for persecuting writers and for invading Czechoslovakia. His journals and letters to his wife, which were smuggled out of the mental hospitals where…
The true story of World War II's longest and most daring Escape and Survival 300 miles inside the Arctic Circle from March to June 1943, when Norwegian SOE Special Forces Soldier 2nd Lt. Jan Baalsrud faced the most incredible feat of courage, adversity and endurance in the face of extreme circumstances…
“The Man with the Hat” is a cinematic journey into the life of famed Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, taking viewers back 4,000 years to explore ancient sites and never-before-seen discoveries. As Egypt’s guardian of antiquities, he’s unearthed major finds, created the real-life…
With a great sens of humor, Diako Yazdani, a political refugee in France, returns to see his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to Kojin, a young 23-year-old homosexual who seeks to exist in a society where he seems unable to find his place. A look at the endless struggle of a minority within…
The story of the last year of Thomas Merton's life in which he traveled from his monastery in Kentucky to interact with other spiritual seekers in Asia, including the Dalai Lama. The year is 1968, a time of great turmoil and momentous change. Merton, one of the great spiritual thinkers and writers…
As if in a dream, the Manzanar "Relocation Center" suddenly appeared on a desolate stretch of California's Owens River Valley in the Spring of 1942. The first of ten prison camps that would house Japanese Americans during World War II, it would soon become the largest town between Los…
A powerful document of the June 12, 1982 March and Rally for Peace and Disarmament in New York City. Nearly one million persons joined the protest. Edited from the most extensive television coverage of the day's events. The program features Dick Gregory, Joan Baez, Theodore Bikel, Holly Near,…
The Marginal Way, once an old Native American trail, is now a famous south coastal Maine attraction. Like the trail, the film roams through the Ogunquit Village, following the artists, fishermen, hippies, hermits, and the pensioners who call this place home. This is a film by Benenson Productions.…
The Market follows individual stories that explore the larger issues surrounding the organ trade - and looks at these issues from both a Western point of view as well as from the point of view of people selling their organs. What are the ethics of organ buying and selling? And, what would we ourselves…
The Mark of the Bell Witch tells the terrifying, true story of the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee. A family who, for nearly five years, were haunted by an apparition bent on destroying their lives, and murdering the patriarch of the family, John Bell. Beginning in 1817 as a disembodied voice before…
The Mark of War is a feature-length documentary film that delves into the experiences of seven Vietnam Veterans from childhood through boot camp, combat, the culture wars at home, and, ultimately, living with enduring mark of war. Unencumbered by narration or other storytelling devices, the film forges…
