When two young women in the District of Columbia lose their way through the traditional school system, can their best friend help them get back on their feet again? At school, Jessica did not feel safe and Victoria was uninterested — so they dropped out. Their best friend Precious almost dropped…
DOING JUSTICE: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy explores civil rights lawyer Arthur Kinoy's landmark cases which began with the Rosenbergs and continued through Watergate. An attorney and progressive civil rights leader who became a professor of law at the Rutgers School of Law--Newark, Kinoy…
Doing Nothing All Day follows a fictitious mother’s search for the ideal school for her son in Israel, Germany and the UK. She discovers the concept of democratic schools. Children are allowed to learn what, when and how they want to. Pupils set and monitor the rules and their learning progress…
Thirteen professional physicists, including three Nobel Laureates, provide a spectrum of fascinating glimpses into the excitement and frustrations of life at the front lines of physics research. Where to watch: coming soon! Featured researchers: - Nima Arkani-Hamed, permanent faculty member, Institute…
Five celebrated researchers provide behind-the-scenes insights of what it’s like to do leading-edge research in psychology. Featured researchers: - John Duncan, Professor of Neuroscience, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge - Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton…
Four experts from different backgrounds give their candid perspectives on how social science research should be improved. Featured researchers: - Mark Bevir, Distinguished Professor Political Science, UC Berkeley - Brian Epstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. - Nile Green,…
A 'time banking' project for young people in Wales. The film shows the ups and downs of a Time Banking project in Maerdy, South Wales, over an eight month period, and in the year since, the Time Banking project shown in the film has gone from strength to strength. Alison Pesticcio the Anti-Social…
Described as the home video from hell, Doin' Time in Times Square documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983. Charlie Ahearn, whose 1983 film Wild Style was a cult hip hop hit, was "blessed" with a generous view of…
People involved with suicide speak. In this film a number of people who have been involved closely with the problem of suicide speak up with a frank and penetrating way. They are not scientists or experts or but ordinary people in stress situations. The purpose of the film is to confront the viewer…
【INTRODUCTION】 Mr. Doi-shu is the only one to appear in this documentary film and it is entirely focused on him and his experiences. To evolve. To harmonize, and let go of the ego. To be grateful. Now is the time to remember why we all live on the earth to recall "Gratification…
Daniele von Arb was 16 years old in 1970 when he and his friends founded the revolutionary cell in Zurich later listed by the U.S. secret service CIA in its chart on international terrorism under the code name “Annebäbi”. Today he is a fortune-teller and future consultant. A hurtling…
Mit dieser Kurzfilmrolle präsentieren wir fünf Kurzfilme von Filmautoren aus dem DOKOMOTIVE Filmkollektiv: "Ali sein Garten" von Undine Siepker, "Am Ende aller Tage" von Irina Heckmann, "Bouchbennersch Otto" von Janina Jung, "Der beste Weg" von Angelika…
