How China's influence spread through Europe China’s resolve to become the world’s first superpower has led Beijing to keep weaving informal networks in its attempt to influence foreign political and economic decision-makers in its favour. Chinese agents directly threaten human rights…
More than a traditional war film, In the Face of Evil plays out on an epic scale... from the back-lots of Hollywood, to the jungles of Central America; from the mountains of Afghanistan, to the palaces of the Kremlin; to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of a divided Berlin... In the Face of Evil…
Moving against time and gentrification, the residents of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue share the extraordinary history of two Harlem dwellings that were, perhaps, the epicenter of the intellectual, political, and artistic African American world in the early to mid twentieth century.
In the Family is a documentary film about predicting breast and ovarian cancer, the consequences of knowing, and the women who live with the risk. Beginning with her story of testing positive for the familial breast cancer mutation (BRCA), Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick chronicles the lives of several women…
Sacred dancer and choreographer Banafsheh Sayyad journeys into the flames of death and rebirth through the 5 stages of the mystical path guided by Rumi's passionate poetry. Mystical scholar, Andrew Harvey recites the poetry in English as Banafsheh recites in Persian. The style is Dance of Oneness,…
Perhaps the greatest storyteller of his generation, Bruce Chatwin's five books reinvented the genre of travel writing. "The nature of human restlessness" was his abiding obsession, and this major two-part biography, filmed across five continents, written and presented by Nicholas Shakespeare,…
Experience a climb to the top of Kilimanjaro and journey to Mkomazi, home of one of the few black rhino breeding programs in the world. Meet Tony and Lucy Fitzjohn whose wildlife conservation credentials go back to George Adamson, subject of the film Born Free who along with Tony made a career of reintroducing…
T. N. Mohan, director of the multiple award-winning film on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Hanged on a Twisted Cross," returned to Germany to film "In the Footsteps of Martin Luther." He introduces Germany as the Land of the Reformation by featuring the ten Luther towns which represent the…
An Arts Festival in the deep forest of New England, where artists of all sorts come together to express their artistic selves, singing, dancing, and doing poetry, among other things.
In The Game is a Kartemquin documentary film directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo (Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, 5 Girls) that follows the ups and downs of a girls’ soccer team to reveal the very real obstacles that low-income students confront in their quest for higher…
This is a place, a modest garden by the countryside. We follow its evolution through the seasons. Every day, for 40 years, the couple who cultivate this plot of land, record the small and major events of the life of this garden, in order to always better adjust to it. What is weaving here? The changing…
Whether it’s opium, cocaine, marijuana or fentanyl, trafficking drugs earns the Sinaloa cartel earns an estimated three to twelve billion dollars per year. It’s a huge business, with more than 200,000 people in the region of Sinaloa alone, working directly or indirectly for organized crime. We…
