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Kusa Pabha

Kusa Pabha

January 26, 2012

The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba.

Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort

Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort

January 26, 2012

Kutsher's Country Club is the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's has been family-owned and operated for over 100 years. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience-- and how it changed American pop culture in the comedy, sports and vacation industries-- this documentary captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes.

Son of Heaven

Son of Heaven

January 25, 2012

A young boy named Tulga is lost in a yak herd during the migration and raised in a wolf's den. A hunter finds the boy while searching for food from a wolf's den in the spring. As the boy grows up, he learns how to inherit the customs of his Mongolian people and how to improve his way of life.

Cine/Sine: Spanish Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

Cine/Sine: Spanish Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

January 25, 2012

Based on Nick Deocampo's award-winning book, Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, this digital documentary traces the beginning of cinema in the Philippines in 1897 when two Spaniards showed the first moving pictures in Escolta. Against the backdrop of war and revolution, film developed to become the emerging Filipinos' dominant form of public entertainment. The documentary further explores the elements of Spanish culture found in Filipino films as evidenced through the classic films made by three National Artists - Eddie Romero, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal. This is Deocampo's homage both to Philippine cinema and the Filipino nation that is its twin.

Otome Nadeshiko Koi Techou

Otome Nadeshiko Koi Techou

January 25, 2012

The story follows a 16-year-old girl who is experiencing her first love during Japan's Taisho period (1912-1926).

Afrika Korps

Afrika Korps

January 24, 2012

WWII in 3D

WWII in 3D

January 24, 2012

For the first time, you will see dramatic moments of WWII that were captured in 3D with stereographs and then shuttered away in secret archives and attics, until now. This stunning collection of color 3D photos includes Allied reconnaissance photos, a trove of images that documents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and photos secretly taken by a civilian in occupied France. WWII IN 3D also features an actual 3D motion picture film shot by the Nazis in 1943 and creates a fully immersive, three dimensional portrait of history's largest and bloodiest conflict.

Just for Fun

Just for Fun

January 23, 2012

A Fierce Green Fire

A Fierce Green Fire

March 1, 2013

It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.

A Century in The Sun: Henry Flagler & The Making of Modern Florida

A Century in The Sun: Henry Flagler & The Making of Modern Florida

January 21, 2012

A one-hour documentary that tells the story of how Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler came to Florida in the late 1800s, built a railroad and hotel empire on the last American frontier, and launched a population boom that lasts a hundred years.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

January 20, 2012

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.

Here Below

Here Below

January 18, 2012

The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.

The Green Wave

The Green Wave

January 18, 2012

Green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This documentary-collage illustrates with animated blogs and tweets the story of democracy under fire and the dramatic events before and after the 2009 presidential elections in Iran.

Custer's Last Stand

Custer's Last Stand

January 17, 2012

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.

Advise & Dissent

Advise & Dissent

January 17, 2012

Behind the lines in the Supreme Court confirmation wars... where justice and politics collide.

The Horde

The Horde

January 13, 2012

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.

Girls of the Rain

Girls of the Rain

January 12, 2012

Girls of the Rain concludes Alida Dimitriou’s filmtrilogy on the contribution of women to political struggles in Greece during the twentieth century. The film is about women imprisoned and tortured during the Colonels’ dictatorship of 1967-1974. At the time, these womenwere in their twenties. Fifty women offer their testimonials. They all share the ethos of the women who took part in the National Resistance, and pursue the establishment of human dignity just as persistently. The “Girls of the Rain” consider themselves successors of those women. One of them said:“...we are their successors, just like the youth of today are our successors”. Remarkably, these are the words of a woman deprived by her torturers of the ability to have children.

Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder

Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder

January 11, 2012

Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow human beings with virtuosity. With the help of a never-ending stream of money, she buys her way out of situations that would have landed others in prison long ago. Her enemies are just waiting for the pyramid to collapse and bury Adele - and countless small investors with her.

Red Tails

Red Tails

January 19, 2012

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Klaus Barbie, sur les traces d'un criminel nazi

Klaus Barbie, sur les traces d'un criminel nazi

January 10, 2012