A crack team of sailing enthusiasts set out to cross Canada's treacherous Northwest passage As the Arctic Joule heaves through clearing sea mists, a haunting sight appears on the horizon, the frozen figure of an extended fist, emerging, as if from thin ice. It is the hand of Franklin, a sight…
With the participation of George Kennan and Günter Behnisch, Peter Bohlin, Frank Gehry, Meinhard von Gerkan, Gerhard Kallmann, Josef Paul Kleihues, Christian de Portzamparc, Kevin Roche, John Ruble and Buzz Yudell, Robert Stern, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Michael Wilford, and others.…
One hundred years ago, on July 1st, 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment took part in a massive First World War offensive on the Somme, led by the British to liberate France and Belgium from the claws of the Germans. Some 800 soldiers from the Regiment went over the top that morning, near Beaumont-Hamel in…
This motion portrait of P.R. Miller is a journey into the mind of an eccentric, outcast scavenger, known around Akron, Ohio as "the junkyard artist." Hailing from a little place called Mars, he was raised on a scrap yard where they used to burn autos. According to Miller, Mars, PA had one of…
Normal is_over_Italian subtitles, 'Norma è Sopra' Documentario premiati, offre varie soluzioni premiati unici per invertire il percorso di declino globale. - Official Selection Sonoma International Film Festival (29 march-2 April 2017) - Official Selection - South African…
A documentary meditation of the emotional links between Zygmunt Bauman’s groundbreaking “Modernity and the Holocaust” and “Winter in the morning”, a Warsaw ghetto memoir written by Janina Bauman, his wife of 65 years. The core of the is film is a four day long visit to…
Smokers and ex-smokers of all ages and classes talking about smoking. A series of clips from interviews with smokers and ex-smokers of all ages and classes talking about smoking. Designed to encourage discussion with a view to helping people to stop. This film is of historical interest and reflects…
Precautions when operating on people with AIDS etc. Special precautions are required when operating on patients with blood and body fluid borne diseases, especially HIV and hepatitis. A basic contention is that safe practice should obtain in all cases in order to develop a safe routine and to ensure…
An overview of the prevalence, aetiology and prevention of pressure sores. An overview of the prevalence, aetiology and prevention of pressure sores. Puts forward rationale to improve the standard of clinical practice and the appropriate use of resources in the management of pressure sores. Brian…
The Business of Disease is a film exploring the hypnosis of marketing, belief systems and the body’s ability to heal. It shows the social programs from which our choices are shaped.
Blood on the Mountain is a searing investigation into the economic and environmental injustices that have resulted from coal company control in West Virginia. This feature documentary details the struggles of a hard-working, misunderstood people, who have historically faced limited choices and have never…
A visual odyssey through the history of country music as told by legendary artists and the elite photographers who captured the evolving image of the country singer, from rhinestone cowboy to pot-smoking outlaw to stadium-filling megastar.
