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A 2001 documentary about one of the branches of the Polish feminist movement. Narrated by Zofia Miłuńska, president of the Dakini Association for the Comprehensive Development of Women. The film has not yet been released because the screening committee for Polish Television's Program 2 deemed it unsuitable for broadcast on ethical and aesthetic grounds.
To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.
Since 1965, when it was launched by Octavian Paler on Romanian Television, TeleEncyclopedia has "illuminated" the communist era for many Romanians. It was a magical show, airing every Saturday at 7:00 PM. Today, it still evokes nostalgia in those who grew up watching it. For children, TeleEncyclopedia remains an oasis of education, preserving its original format and role by presenting documentaries on diverse subjects such as nature, technology, art, health, and more.
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.
India's wildcats have been symbols of strength & royalty since the ancient times. Despite the reverence they evoke and their own adaptability & prowess, these cats have been pushed to the brink. Yet, they are the last hope for protecting the country's wild spaces. Two years in the making, 'Wild Cats of India' has journeyed across country's contrasting landscapes with an ambition to paint an intimate portrait of the intriguing lives of wildcats.
“At the Millimeter”: a six-episode documentary series, by Eleni Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou, journalists and authors of the best-selling “The Last Bluff”. The dramatic events of 2015 come to life again and the moment when Greece came within a breath of leaving the euro unfolds through exclusive interviews and rare unpublished archival material. With unique access to the people who made the decisions, “At the Millimeter” opens the closed doors of power. From Athens and Brussels, to Berlin and Washington, dozens of protagonists speak without filters and without second thoughts. What really happened? How close did we come to collapse? What mistakes were made?
Kirstie provides a flurry of jovial festive fun - with enough competitions, makes, decorations, gifts, food and drink to inspire every kind of crafter.
The history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. Simultaneously focuses on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, offering new perspectives on the slave experience and testifying to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.
Meet the real stars of Japanese animation. From crayons to CGI, discover the techniques and inspirations of some of Japan's most amazing animators.
The first authorized work exploring the extraordinary life of Willie Nelson traverses the personal and career ups, downs, and in-betweens of one of the world’s most beloved musicians.
This documentary series chronicles the trials and triumphs of Bollywood's iconic Roshan family — musician Roshan Lal Nagrath, Rajesh, Rakesh and Hrithik.
Offers an unprecedented look at one the world’s most powerful families at a crossroads, as its patriarch, Rupert Murdoch, makes one last play to ensure his legacy at all costs.
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Dame Judi Dench in the UK and Salome Jens in the United States. The series won two Primetime Emmy Awards: one for Jeremy Irons for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, the other for Outstanding Informational Series. In 1997, it was given a Peabody Award.
Film lovers examine the cinematic moments that thrilled, perplexed, challenged and forever changed them in this collection of visual essays.
In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
A documentary about the period in sports entertainment, known as the Monday Night Wars. Includes interviews with past and present on-air personalities. Also includes looking back on superstars and storylines that made the Monday Night Wars so memorable.
From shark attacks to transport disasters and collapsing buildings - why do these events happen? Delve into the mysteries and science behind the stories that hit the headlines.
Eight fictional holidays are taken by actor Ryoma Takeuchi. While taking a break from filming, he visits a spice shop.
Adrian Chiles, Mehreen Baig and a team of experts explore the spectacular coastlines linked by the Irish Sea, and meet the people who call them home.
The Engelbecken is not just a normal place between the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, but also symbolic, a kind of metaphor: for the Wall that runs through the whole of Berlin and the deadly landscape that surrounds it, the death strip. It is a place of division, of death, of limitation and confinement. In their essay film, Gamma Bak and Steffen Reck look at the oppositional subculture in Prenzlauer Berg/East Berlin.
One day in a kindergarten classroom at Van Horne Public School in Montreal. The teacher encourages children to turn their curiosity into questions and organizes group activities and play periods.
The Dutroux Affair, a notorious child kidnapping and sexual abuse case that struck Belgium in the 1990s, created such a media circus that it distorted an entire nation's collective identity and memory. The generation of children shaped by its sordidly sensational and pervasive coverage are now adults looking to redress their fears, confusion and mistrust. Using shaky VHS tapes from the time coupled with voiceover, these voices of a generation confront their experiences of the crimes as "a threat that invades your body." Their private recollections focus on the effects of hearing graphic descriptions of rape and pedophilia at such a young age that it led to the normalization and development of sexuality informed by sexual abuse.
GET LAMP is a documentary about interactive fiction (also known as text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott.
A primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special will also feature an exclusive interview with Adele by Oprah Winfrey from her rose garden, in Adele’s first televised wide-ranging conversation.
Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture project and its first installation at documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany in 1977
In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.
In the spring of 2008, car wash workers throughout Los Angeles formed the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (USW), a precursor to eventual plans to unionize the informal workers of a multi-million dollar industry rampant with exploitation. Most of these workers are undocumented migrants from Central America whose aspirations have led them to washing cars in the city of angels. This experimental documentary, shot on Super 8 film, journeys into a city defined by as much by cars as it is immigrant labor to offer a quiet commentary on the relationship between class, place, and work.
An anthropological look into the rich culture of video games.
A holiday with an end in sight and a birthday to start it all. A further illustration of divide within London, United Kingdom during 2026.
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
A joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subculture are rendered with warmth and dedication to scholarship in this journey through Polish-American celebrations. Polka stars like Jimmy Sturr, Eddie Blazonzyck and Walt Solek are featured.
Twenty years ago, the 2002 World Cup in Japan was on the horizon and a sense of excitement gripped the nation. But England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson was preoccupied with domestic matters, as he faced claims that he was playing away with fellow Swede and former television weather girl Ulrika Jonsson.
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.
Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results.
Three months before the 2019 World Cup, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation. At the center of this no-holds-barred account are the players themselves–Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O'Hara and others–who share their stories of courage and resiliency as they take on the biggest fight for women's rights since Title IX.
The film "Eternal Mission" tells about the tumultuous fate of the delegation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic sent to the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919 under the leadership of Alimardan Bey Topchubashov, the Speaker of the Parliament.