A disabled, black single mother works helping other people. The life story of Shirley Carter, an African-American, single, mother, born with cerebral palsy, arthritis, and muscle spasms, a speech defect and hearing loss. In 1986 she and other peace marchers walked 3,700m miles in the USA and for a…
Director: Leo Erken | 2004 | documentary | human interest | 55 min An inside look into the tulip industry in the Netherlands and those who stand to profit (or lose) from it. The tulip boom of the Golden Age has returned to North Holland. Almost four hundred years after tulips were first imported…
Director: Sunny Bergman | 2007 | documentary | point of view | 60 min 'Over the Hill' takes a unique look at the fashion and cosmetics industry and their uncanny powers of persuasion. Rather than making women feel better about themselves, they actually make them feel worse and vulnerable…
Angel Of Nanjing: The story of a man who patrols the Yangtze River Bridge saving people who have tried to commit suicide Available on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/angel-of-nanjing/id1077044961?mt=6 Get in now on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Angel_of_Nanjing?id=G60rgynyeR8&hl=en_GB Watch…
One of the first films on the question of the right to choose the time of your dying. An archival film about a delicate subject. In the 1970s a doctor in Florida who was also in the state legislature introduced a bill to permit a person to sign a 'Living Will' saying do not keep me alive…
Ritualised transformation of the game of cricket by the Trobriand islanders of New Guinea. Classic film about the transformation of British cricket into a unique sport and political ritual among the Trobriand islanders, who live off the coast of New Guinea. The game includes war dress, chants and…
Issues of principle and practice in day care facilities for young children. Highlights issues of principle and practice in day care facilities for young children. It compares examples of different practice, and emphasises the importance of developing close personal relationships between children,…
B.F. Skinner's ideas on behaviourism and rewards. The film opens with an interesting interview with B F Skinner. He cites five classical examples of behavioural mistreatment: old people, children in care, prisoners, and the mentally and physically handicapped -- people in institutions who suffer…
A poetic impression of the horror of the concentration camps. The artist and poet Stephen Morris has tried with words and images to express his feelings about the horror of the concentration camps, to capture some of the blind terror, the revulsion and the sheer repugnance of it all. The words and…
This is a project of Cinema Jenin. The VOD revenue of the movie "After the Silence" will be donated 100% to http://www.cinemajenin.org The donations will be used to keep the ciema in Jenin running and pay our staff. About the movie https://marcus-vetter.com/after-the-silence/ Two young…
HEAVY BURDEN - a film by Bjørn Engvik Tony is ok. Got a permanent job, runs a morning café and courses based on own experiences for those who do not know how to keep their homes, manage daily finances and navigate the online reality. You can see no traces of his addiction to heroin.…
Directed by Christian and Michael Blackwood During his days as a top member of the Pop Art movement in Britain, Jones had evolved a singular genre of imagery: totemic forms of torso-less legs, sheathed in vinyl, which have become his artistic "icons." His graphic works, drawings, paintings…
