Present day Quakers explain their beliefs. Quakers was a derogatory nickname given to members of ‘The Religious Society of Friends’ by a judge at a time in the 1670s when they were persecuted for their beliefs which placed duty to God above their obligations to the state. In this film…
Covers 1901 to 1999 about the activities of Yorkshire women The century is the 1900s. At the start of the century women did not have the vote and they had no property rights if they were married. In effect they were the ‘property’ of their husbands. But Yorkshire women were particularly…
Roma Golpe Capitale è il film cha racconta l’avvento del populismo in una delle principali capitali mondiali e, nel contempo, la fine del sogno del Partito Democratico in Italia. Golpe è stato decidere di mandare via un sindaco, democraticamente eletto, non nell’aula del Consiglio…
An introduction to the complex author of Invisible Man including the first-ever dramatized scenes from that book.
A cross-section of gender-bending pioneers describe in their own words their lives as homosexual Africans in Abijan. [In French with English subtitles]
Across Africa, a belief in witchcraft continues to terrorize women: the denunciation, brutal beating, the banishment to an unknown village without family or friends. Witches in Exile is the first film to tell their story and the story of the human rights struggle to find a solution to a practice deeply…
The story of eight women in America's heartland--Willmar, Minnesota--who were driven by sex discrimination at work to find themselves unexpectedly at the forefront of the struggle for women's rights. Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, they began the longest…
The lives, times and music of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Ethel Waters and other legendary women illustrate how the blues became a vital part of American culture.
The explosive documentary from Black Channel Films daring to ask the question "Is it still just racism or is it a race war?"
Discover the meteoric rise of Elon Musk, the man who is transforming the way we think about travel technology through electric cars, the Hyperloop, and revolutionary ideas on how we live through artificial intelligence and colonizing Mars. Featuring Elon Musk, Per Wimmer, Julie Anderson-Ankenbrandt,…
Vier opmerkelijke ouderen die maar niet van stoppen weten; Zwemkampioene Marianne Maandonks (91), karateleraar Hans Harthoorn (74), naaktmodel Maria Vliegen (73) en goochelaar Wim van Dokkum (78) tevens verdienstelijk drummer in de Dixie Daddies. Ze doen hun werk vol overgave, met plezier en met een…
Critics claim they’re little more than ’torture camps’, taking tough love way too far. But for desperate parents, military-style boot camps are often seen as the last chance for their children to avoid the vicious cycle of delinquency and jail. We spent five months at the Discovery…
