Produced by renowned filmmaker Rithy Panh, "The Storm Makers" is a chilling exposé of Cambodia's human trafficking underworld. More than half a million Cambodians work abroad and a staggering third of these have been sold as slaves. Most are young women, held prisoner and forced…
How deforestation would affect the Amazon region. One tenth of all the world's species live on Amazonia, feeding off each other, pollinating each other, dependent in a web of life. A botanist and a zoologist explain and show the delicate balance between plant and animal life, and find that to…
Filmed in 1962, "The Story of a Fireman" is a portrait of life in the Los Angeles Fire Department and of Captain Alan Evanson as he and his men confront their first big structure fire.
The Story of Australia captures the stunning landscapes and people of contemporary Australia. Experience everyday Australian life through the eyes of people working on the ground including a wildlife ranger in Kakadu, a rodeo rider in rural NSW, a marine biologist on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland,…
The tradition of eating beef has passed down generations to become an integral part for many of our regular diets. By providing precious protein, packed with fatty calories beef has come be regarded as an important ingredient for human survival. Along with fellow presenters from around the world, this…
Bourbon whiskey is inexorably intertwined with Kentucky and America’s history. Discover how distilling originated in Kentucky with its first settlers in 1775 and walk the sites of Central Kentucky's earliest distilling operations. Magnificent portraits and landscapes adorn this production.…
The liberty lineage from Samuel and Lao Tzu to Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party.
The Story of Lovers Rock is a documentary film by Menelik Shabazz that tells the story of how Lovers Rock music defined a generation in the late 70's and 80's hugely impacting on British Pop Culture.
Lovers Rock, often dubbed 'romantic reggae' is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems. Live performance, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive shed light on the music and the generation that…
In a vitrine at the Africa Museum in Tervuren stands the nkisi of Ne Kuko, far away from his Congolese home in the mountains of Boma. This mysterious power statue was looted from its community and has been on display and trapped behind glass for more than 100 years. In The Story of Ne Kuko, the voice…
In een vitrine van het Africa Museum in Tervuren staat de nkisi van Ne Kuko, ver weg van zijn Congolese thuis in de bergen van Boma. Dit mysterieuze krachtbeeld is ontvreemd uit zijn gemeenschap en staat al meer dan 100 jaar tentoongesteld en gevangen achter glas. In The Story of Ne Kuko brengt de…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/the-story-of-por-por-p998.aspx https://store.der.org/jazz-cosmopolitanism-in-accra-series-p993.aspx From the Jazz Cosmopolitanism In Accra series by Steven Feld and Nii Yemo Nunu color, 60 min with 20 min of…
