Visions of the Cascades is a moving collage of landscapes featuring the beautiful mountain peaks of the Pacific Northwest. Each mountain presents its own unique character as it’s blanketed with the inevitable passing of time. The sequences of VOTC were shot almost entirely solo and over the…
In this Documentary interview, Mary Seiberling Huhn, daughter of Henrietta Seiberling, recalls in vivid detail the life events that lead her mother to introduce Bill Wilson to Dr. Bob Smith in the Gate Lodge at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens on May 12, 1935. As a result of this introduction and meeting,…
Hosted by celebrated author and teacher Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, this documentary makes the case that the rapidly deteriorating public health of our citizens is linked directly to nearly half-a-century of bad design decisions, now frozen in concrete. Each of the segments included in this set looks…
This film investigates how the multi-billion-dollar weight-loss industry systematically buys scientific research and uses it in its favor. Results based on questionable short-term studies find their way into respected publications and motivate physicians to prescribe such diets to their patients. When…
Edens Lost & Found is hosted by NPR Weekend Today's Scott Simon and features stories about inspirational environmental activists and their plight to preserve the communities around them.
All eyes were on Berlin in the summer of 1936, where Nazi-Germany was hosting one of the most political Olympic Games in history. Unnoticed by most, a political drama unfolds when Sohn Kee-Chung, a Korean athlete, wins a gold medal in the marathon. Forced to run under the Japanese flag, his victory goes…
Partindo da adaptação teatral pelo Teatro O Bando, da obra literária do Prémio Nobel José Saramago "Ensaio sobre a Cegueira", Rui Simões realiza um longo documentário sobre todo o processo criativo, até à estreia, constituindo em…
"Free Lunch Society" Order DVD: http://icarusfilms.com/if-lunch What would you do if your income was taken care of? Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking…
The director set out to Nepal to shoot two different films: The first, about the largest Passover Seder in the world taking place in the Katmandu valley, and the second, a journey in the spectacular Nepalese Himalayan mountains, a breathtaking trek to Gokyo peak. Preparations for the Seder are carried…
Ein Film voller Emotionen, farbenfrohen Bildern und dem Gefühl von Heimat. Ein wahres Sinneserlebnis. Appenzeller Hinterland, mitten im Winter. 5.00 Uhr morgens: Unzählige bunt verkleidete Männer und Knaben lassen sich vor einen Wagen spannen, darauf liegt ein langer und schön…
TÚ Y YO A film by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada (Dominican Republic, 2014, 86 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) The Mrs., an elderly widow, and Aridia, a young maid, live together in a house filled with orchids in the center of Santo Domingo. Aridia cleans, the Mrs. gardens, and…
The Winchester Mystery House® is an architectural wonder and historic landmark in San Jose, CA that was once the personal residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of the Winchester® Repeating Arms fortune. Tragedy befell…
