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"24 Hours. 45 Organizations. 79 Filmmakers. 700+ Participants. One Day in Jackson Hole was inspired by the One Day on Earth projects. On December 12, 2012, our community joined thousands of filmmakers in every country on the planet in a massive global project documenting the human experience during the same 24-hour period. One Day in Jackson Hole is a true grassroots project; a community crowd-sourced film! Interviews with old-timers link us to the...
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Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this documentary traces the untold history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. Adapting Robin Means Coleman's seminal book, this will present the living and the dead, using new and archival interviews from scholars and creators; the voices who survived the genre's past trends, to those...
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Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
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Electric cars seem increasingly likely to replace our gas-guzzling vehicles. Could a new generation of emission-free electric planes do the same to the polluting airliners in our skies--a major step in the fight against climate change? NOVA looks at an array of new electric planes and takes a ride in some prototypes. Will the dream of super-quiet, super-efficient airliners become a reality?
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"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
10) Beyond gravity
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One the fastest growing sports in North America is climbing; this film presents portraits of many of the world's top climbers in their own disciplines. Filmed amongst lush mountain landscapes ranging from Alberta to Greenland, the documentary engages the media image of climbing as a reckless, dangerous, life-threatening, and chaotic activity to reveal the obsession with planning and detail demanded by outdoor climbing. With rock, ice, mixed, aid and...
11) Central America
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Itinerary inclues Merida, Mexico, the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Monteverde Cloud Forest and Nicaragua.
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This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
14) Subject
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In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of An Inconvenient Truth, Cameraperson, MLK/FBI, and more. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented...
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"A filmmaker and a photographer document their travels as they attempt to cross all of the world's deserts on a motorbike in 900 days. Experience the beauty of the Arabian, Asian, Australian, American and African deserts as their adventures reveal the landscapes and cultures of these unique environments. From the gypsum dune fields of White Sands in New Mexico to the famed Deshnok Temple in India to the harrowing Skeleton Coast of Namibia, their journeys...
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Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
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Documents the making of an original Western film called Bulletproof. Bulletproof features actors with and without disabilities who meet every year at Zeno Mountain Farm (ZMF) to write, produce, and star in original short films. Founded by two brothers and their wives, Zeno Mountain Farm's philosophy is to create a truly inclusive community that builds genuine friendships that transcend stigma and stereotypes.
20) Burden of dreams
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Criterion collection volume 287
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Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career--Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera...
