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February 08 2012
D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker
One-hour documentary – awarded the Grand Prize for Best Feature Length Film at the 2011 Portland Humanist Film Festival – chronicles the life of publisher D.M. Bennett (1818-1882). D.M. Bennett was nineteenth-century America’s most controversial and unjustly imprisoned editor of the blasphemous New York City freethought periodicalJanuary 31 2012
A Thing of Wonder, Excerpt
A Thing of Wonder, Excerpt is a documentary video featuring Jerry Andrus. He is an 83-year old magician, inventor and poet that has an insatiable appetite for uncovering the mysteries of life on the boundary between reason and illusion.
Wandering through his Albany, Oregon, “Castle of Chaos,” he demonstrates his incredible inventions (like the Tri-Zonal Space Warper), and waxes philosophic on the subjects of reason, perception, God and what he calls “the curse of contentment.”
The video also reflects not only his creative genius, but also his principled lifestyle and profound involvement with the problems of human existence, A Thing of Wonder pays tribute to a man devoted equally to the science and magic of wonder.
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January 26 2012
The House of Rothschild: The Money’s Prophets
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family’s vast political network, which gave it access toJanuary 21 2012
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel is a documentary video featuring real-life stunt daredevil Evel Knievel. Knievel’s famous motorcycle stunts and early life are remembered in flashback by the performer in the moments before a big jump.
Produced and stars by George Hamilton, this appealing bio-pic includes familiar drive-in movie faces like Vic Tayback, Sue Lyon, Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith, and Dub Taylor, and much of it was filmed on location in Knievel’s hometown of Butte, Montana. Though Hamilton is quite good in the lead, most fans prefer the real thing — Knievel portraying himself in the later Viva Knievel! (1978).
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January 19 2012
Three Came Home
Three Came Home is a documentary film based on the autobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith.
Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her British husband (Patric Knowles) are penned up in a prison camp along with several other subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Col. Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation, and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Suga helpless to intervene lest he incur the wrath of his own superiors.
It contains several unforgettable moments, including a comic interlude between the male and female prisoners that ends abruptly with a barrage of Japanese bullets, and the heartwrenching scene wherein Suga learns that his family has been killed in a bombing raid.
This film stars Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith.
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January 15 2012
Mai’s America
Mai’s America is a documentary video featuring an intimate portrait of a spunky Vietnamese teenager named Mai who lands in rural Mississippi, giving us an outsider’s glimpse of America.
Mai gets the chance of a lifetime—to study in the United States. Expecting Hollywood, she instead lands in rural Mississippi. Nothing in her wildest imagination prepares Mai for her crash landing in rural Mississippi …where her relationships with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host-families, self-proclaimed red-necks, transvestites, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about America , about herself, about freedom, and even about Vietnam.
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The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler
The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler is a compilation of interviews (including with Eva Braun and Hitler’s sister Paula Wolf) and films to create a look at the man behind the horrific vision which created the devastation of World War II.
Produced by Westbrook van Voorhis, this 1950′s television documentary special attempts to summarize Hitler’s (secret) life including WWII in only 52 minutes.
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Anatomy of a Springroll
Anatomy of a Springroll is an award-winning documentary video featuring one man’s culinary journey from San Francisco to Saigon, blending his Vietnamese roots with his American life.
It is a visual feast celebrating the ability of food to capture a culture’s tradition and to comfort its generations.
Collaborators Kwan and Iger combine fantasy and documentary by mixing food-as-metaphor with humorous family footage, animation, puppetry, history, and performance.
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December 30 2011
Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
Documentary profiling the life of legendary country music star Johnny Cash, who died in 2003 shortly after completing the retrospective Unearthed, a five-CD set of the acoustic performances with which he resurrected his career in the last decade of his life, and after losing his wife, JuneDecember 24 2011
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervor and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fueled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite ambition, and an inspirational perfectionistDecember 20 2011
The Loss of Nameless Things
The Loss of Nameless Things is a documentary filmed by Bill Rose. It features Grinder’s Stand scribe and the son of famed novelist Oakley Hall.
Bill Rose examines the tragic fall from grace of the playwright whom many critics believed to be the next great voice in American theater.
Hall III first began to garner attention as the co-founder and artistic director of the Lexington Conservatory Theater in upstate New York. The year was 1978, and Hall III’s work had recently been optioned by Joseph Papp of the renowned Public Theater in New York. The playwright has just completed his verse play, a drama titled Grinder’s Stand that was based on the events surrounding the bizarre death of American explorer Merriweather Lewis, when he suffered extensive head injuries in a fall from a bridge not far from the Lexington Conservatory Theater. Both his life and career were irreparably altered by that fateful fall, leaving many to wonder what would become of the man whom critics often singed out as an enfant terrible with an incredibly bright future. Flash forward twenty-five years, and Hall III was hired as a playwright and consultant by a Northern California theater troupe determined to stage the play that he was writing the night that his life was forever changed, providing filmmaker Rose with the ideal opportunity to bring his remarkable story to the screen for the very first time.
This program first aired on PBS last February 28, 2006.
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December 19 2011
The Google Boys
Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world, and process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Google’s meteoric rise to Internet stardom is one of the great business sagas of ourThe Jackie Robinson Story
The Jackie Robinson Story is also considered as one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed despite the fact of low production values and box-office “names.”
The film features Jackie Robinson. It talks about his career from his college days, when he excelled as a track star at Pasadena College and as UCLA’s All-Sports record holder. Upon his graduation, Robinson tries to get a coaching, but this is the 1940s, and most doors are closed to black athletes. After serving in the army, Robinson plays with the Negro Baseball League, where his uncanny skills attract the attention of Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The story continues…
Jackie Robinson Story is surprisingly frank in its detailing of the racial tensions of its own era. It falters only in a couple of silly vignettes involving comic-relief ballplayer Ben Lessey. The cast is uniformly fine, including Louise Beavers as Robinson’s mother, Ruby Dee as his wife Rae (Dee would later play Robinson’s mother in the 1990 TV movie The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson), Joel Fluellen as his brother Mac, Minor Watson.
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December 18 2011
The Flute Player
The Flute Player is a documentary film featuring Arn Chorn Pond. He is a survivor of Cambodia’s genocide, an internationally recognized human rights leader and a talented musician.
After surviving its Killing Fields as a boy, a musician now champions Cambodia’s traditional music.
The documentary is a heroic story of one man’s fight against the devastating effects of war. It is a film about sorrow and pain, dignity and freedom, and the will to survive.
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December 16 2011
A Summer In The Cage
A Summer In The Cage is a feature-length documentary filmed by Ben Selkow. It talks about the battle of his friend Sam with a bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness.
The film features a compassionate yet painfully honest depiction of one man’s suffering, charting the impact of his delusional manic episodes, paralyzing depressions, and his struggle to come to terms with the legacy of his father. It also shows Sam tremendous talent for photography, his clear intelligence and supportive family – the film talks to us all about the importance of enduring hope and familial love.
This film is a tremendous achievement that deserves a wide audience.
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December 09 2011
Tesla: Master of Lightning
This documentary does a wonderful job of conveying the genius that was Nikola Tesla. Watch this documentary and then look around your house. You’ll be amazed in the ways in which Tesla impacts our everyday lives. His death ray is also examined and a good discussion ofDecember 02 2011
Google Me
Directed by Jim Killeen, Google Me is a documentary fetauring the number of people around the world who share his name. Using the most popular Internet search engine Google, Killeen discovers six gentlemen also named Killeen from a priest in Ireland to a swinger in Colorado.It talks about the similarities and differences of the people in the same name despite different backgrounds.
As a result, Killeen develop an exceptional cross section of fascinating lives of various individuals throughout the world and then bundles it in a manner that enables the viewers to experience it just like you were with him on his journey. This is precisely what the film community needs, innovative and interesting ideas from imagination like that of Jim.
Due to the premise of the film, Jim Killeen is likely to become a household name. By employing the single yet powerfully intimate common denominator of a person’s name, “Google Me” succeeds in exploring the philosophical subject of identity itself as well as the underlying human conditions that unite us all.
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December 01 2011
The Fort Fisher Hermit
The documentary video The Fort Fisher Hermit features Robert E. Harrill, The Fort Fisher Hermit. He spent in Fort Fisher, North Carolina under the stars and scrub oaks for over 17 years.
Surviving off the land and the contributions from thousands of visitors, the Fort Fisher Hermit became one of the areas largest tourist attractions.
It talks about his life as a hermit, his popularity and the mysterious behind his death. Robert’s life wasn’t as idyllic as he made it out to be.
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Butterflies YouTube Documentary Movie
The video above is the sole feature film winner about YouTubers. It features the lives of six young people that are prominent ‘weblebrities’ on a video site YouTube.
The film tells the power and the future of the new media. It answers questions between and the merge of the new media and traditional media.
It documents the struggles and successes of characters Lisanova, Mr. Safety, Davedays, Boh3m3, Olgakay, Xgobobeanx and others and their hopes to become the new ‘virtual’ celebrities. Also in the film: Fred, SxePhil, Charles Trippy, KevJumba, Kicesie, Paperlilies, KatiesOpinion, Daxflame, Joe Satriani, Esmee Denters, Whatthebuck, David Foley, Renetto, ClipCritics, Katy Perry, GayGod, Nigahiga, Chad Hurley and others.
If you want to no what its all about “its a new world man!”
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November 23 2011
Optimo Hatworks
Watch Grant Sergot interact with the brothers from the Million Dollar Road Trip and find out a lost art in the video below.
Based in Bisbee Arizona, Sergot creates hats in an old fashioned way. He uses original materials of which is nearly a century old.
His headwear is considered as artwork and the amazing character behind this man.
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