FOR HOME USE ONLY – FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT: https://store.der.org/the-collective-p934.aspx Richard Broadman black & white, 60 min, 1985 In 1970, thousands of young people thought of themselves as agents of change. They wanted to restore America's democratic…
This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this…
Moon Talk: Episode #2 of 3. “The Collins Story – Connecting the Moon to the Earth” presents the role of the Collins Radio Company in the development of the Apollo Communication Systems; culminating in the historic broadcast of Apollo 8 from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968. This…
Steps to the Moon: Episode #1 of 3. “The Collins Story – Connecting the Moon to the Earth” explores the early research and development projects at the Collins Radio Company that enabled the subsequent highly successful communication systems on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.…
When dreams of revolution die, what is left behind? For over 40 years Ashur Shamis was a member of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood and Colonel Gadaffi’s enemy number one in exile with a $1m bounty on his head. His dream of a ‘free’ Libya almost cost him his life and his family. When…
For over 40 years Ashur Shamis was a member of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood and Colonel Gadaffi’s enemy number one in exile with a $1m bounty on his head. His dream of a ‘free’ Libya almost cost him his life and his family. When the 2011 revolution rid the country of their dictator,…
'When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible'. Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first elected Prime Minister and President In The Colonial…
The story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital which provided state-of-the-art medical training to over two-thirds of all African-American physicians and nurses from 1937 to 1979. While its founder was mysteriously killed, the hospital in his name thrived during the most turbulent of segregated times, allowing…
The Palestinian Amer family lives surrounded by the West Bank Wall. Through a sensitive lens, we discover the private world of all eight members of the family, whose lives are dominated by electrified fences, locks and Israeli soldiers.
A documentary about the imprisonment and eventual release of a family of political prisoners in Argentina. In 1975 Juan Carlos Rodrigues and his pregnant wife Marisa were arrested and like thousands of other political prisoners, suffered severe physical and psychological abuse. For a year they had absolutely…
A film by Jacqueline Caux This film was inspired by the itinerary of a ‘gap-bridger’: Daniel Caux, a musicologist, essayist and radio producer, who made endless discoveries in the fields of experimental, minimalist, repetitive, postmodern and techno music. His contribution is all the more…
Brad is a double threat. One of the most talented magicians in the country, he is also a very gifted and funny stand-up comedian.
