Employment of people with learning disabilities, in London. This London agency seeks out employment for people with learning disabilities, and several cases are illustrated, which are highly successful, both to employer and employee. The idea is that each person has something to give, and we should…
From the producers of Twilight in Forks - Travel to the real town of Volterra, Italy where medieval magic and mystery combine as the perfect setting for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga.
When you’ve been to hell and back, how do you shake the memories? This question has haunted General Roméo Dallaire since 1994, when he was UN Force Commander during the Rwandan genocide, explored in our award-winning documentary Shake Hands with the Devil. Dallaire has now found a reason…
In 1962, a 38 year old Secret Service man named Thomas Lemuel Johns transferred from the Atlanta office to the Vice Presidential protective detail in Washington D.C. He and a small detail protected Lyndon Johnson and were with him a year later in Dallas, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/the-drums-of-winter-p896.aspx by Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling color, 90 min, 1988, digitally remastered 2015 This feature-length documentary explores the traditional dance, music and spiritual world of…
Ludwig van Beethoven ist ein Mythos – und das schon zu seinen eigenen Lebzeiten. So sehr seine Popularität heute weltweit noch zunimmt, so wenig weiß man über die erschütternden Umstände, unter denen seine Musik entstand. Beethoven ist bereits im Alter von 31 Jahren ertaubt.…
My close friend Peter was told that he suffered from the most aggressive form of brain cancer, also known as “the terminator”. The mortality rate is 100%. The doctors gave him a year to live. He has a large family and his youngest daughter was only four years old when he got the diagnose. In…
In the back alleys of Moscow, forgotten treasures lurk: Utopian buildings, built in the 1920s in the spirit of Russian constructivism. Ruins of another future, reflecting the hopes and aberrations of modernity. Aren’t the buildings calling out to us? The film follows three Muscovites who are…
This film was produced on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It provides a useful overview to the work of Roy Lichtenstein, a seminal Pop artist, and gets behind the sometimes-impenetrably-slick surfaces of Lichtenstein's canvases and prints, to show how such…
The year was 1985. Thousands of miles away from the sonic debauchery of the Sunset Strip, two teenage friends shared aspirations of glam rock grandeur. Freshly permed and taking a page straight out of Hit Parader, a hungry, determined band was born. Fame and fortune, however, remained out of reach and…
The Shaker movement in America was founded by Ann Lee, a member of a religious sect near Manchester, England, that prophesized the imminent second appearance of Christ on earth. They were referred to as "Shaking Quakers" due to their ecstatic movements during worship. Ann Lee immigrated…
In 1989, William S. Rubin, then Director Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture, organized its groundbreaking exhibition Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism. Rubin gathered over 400 paintings and sculptures by the artists for the exhibition and charted their…
