Examining war, teen pregnancy, foster care, child abuse and molestation, this vibrant film captures a working class family struggling for stability. Richly photographed over a year from one Halloween to the next, October Country hums with textured visual metaphors, offering subtle motifs that illuminate each character.
Examining war, teen pregnancy, foster care, child abuse and molestation, this vibrant film captures a working class family struggling for stability. Richly photographed over a year from one Halloween to the next, October Country hums with textured visual metaphors, offering subtle motifs that illuminate each character.
Featuring interviews with women astronauts like Claudie Haigneré, the first European woman in space, the feminist theorist Donna Haraway (Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature), the Mercury 13 women and the icons of Russian space travel, Silvia Casalino investigates why women struggled to achieve equal opportunities with their male counterparts in the world of space technology.
Featuring music legend Bobby McFerrin and best-selling author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, The Music Instinct provides a groundbreaking exploration of how and why the human organism – and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos – is moved by the undeniable effect of music.
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison remains one of the greatest live albums ever made, and the man himself one of America’s greatest troubadours and advocates for prison reform. Forty years later, the album still resonates today with a rawness and authenticity that few recordings have ever achieved.
Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think explores the ex- pertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world’s first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization.
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues and treasures.
El General is a lyrical exploration of Natalia Almada’s cultural inheritance as General Calles’ great granddaughter and the Mexico she lives in 80 years after his death. Almada’s grandmother, Alicia Calles, recorded a series of recollections of her life and times.
Beginning in the late 1950’s – before the world of finance had a bad name, a small group of visionaries fostered a one-of-a- kind business culture that encouraged extraordinary risk which led to unprecedented rewards.
This energetic and surprising film is the first ever profile of Paul Goodman, the mischievous anarchist and public intellectual, the bisexual family man of letters who authored the groundbreaking book Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System.
