”The Tom Coleman Story” är en finstämd dokumentärfilm som berättar om Dr. Tom Coleman och hans hustru Elaine från Cambridge i Minnesota. Från 1956 och till 2004 arbetade de en stor del av sin tid i Afrika där de offrade bekvämlighet och riskerade…
In January 1874 — 150 years ago this week — New Yorkers revolted against unemployment, low wages, and lack of opportunity. What can this uprising tell us about immigrant life in 19th-century New York? What was like life for the German and Irish immigrants who lived in the East Village?
One of the things that most people tend to avoid and have problem dealing with is conflict. The reason? A lot of us are not trained how to handle it and in the event that we do, we tend to default to our primeval responses – to either fight, flight, or freeze. This webinar walks us through techniques…
The origins of the student movement in the United States. The origins of the student movement in the United States have never been explored in film or video until this half hour documentary. A confrontation between Berkeley student pickets and police at City Hall in San Francisco in May, 1960 had…
The Getting Clear conference brought together the largest group of critics, ex-members and experts on Scientology in history. The conference ran June 22-26, 2015 in Toronto and was organized by Jon Atack and Professor James Beverley. It featured Tony Ortega, Paulette Cooper, Gerry Armstrong, Tory Christman,…
How much pain can the human body handle before the mind is permanently scarred? This graphic depiction of inhuman acts follows the stories of five people from around the world, who endured torture and lived to tell the horrific tales. Their tales of cruelty and torture, while unique in circumstance,…
Park benches, lawns, subways, backpacks, spray cans, barbed wire, asphalt and beer. We owned the parks and alleyways of Stockholm . Graffiti unified a great bunch of windswept existences. But then came the children, the prison, the career, the overdose, the psychiatric clinic and death, and we dispersed. Jussi's…
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union began to unravel. New President Boris Yeltsin promised to lead the country away from its gloomy communist past towards a brighter capitalist future. Instead he ushered in an age of widespread poverty and corruption which allowed an ultra-rich class…
Seminal film on ecology and finite resources. Draws an illustration from 18th century England, when farmers shared the benefits and responsibilities of a mutual pasture for their animals. Profit motive competed with limited space, and the commons failed. Today the 'commons' is the earth…
When the going gets tough, the tough ride a bicycle 326 miles. In this high-spirited documentary, writer Robert Isenberg pedals from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal. An ordinary bike commuter, Isenberg weathers rainstorms, fatigue, and the loneliness…
"The Trail of the Conquerors' - May 2016, Andres Lledo crosses Costa Rica from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast in 8 days. It is along the 435km road explored by the first Conquistadors, that this Spanish ultra-runner and his team encounter Costa Ricans and celebrate the values of sports…
A 1983 film looking at the toxic chemicals scandal from Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant in Italy.The escape of highly dangerous dioxin chemicals through a reactor explosion led to illness in children and death in domestic pets leaving a toxic timebomb as the chemicals and contamination…
