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Year Published: 1920
It is the original documentary of the greatest epic in the history of exploration, produced by Shackleton and Frank Hurley. When Shackleton set sail on the Endurance on August 8, 1914, he planned a brave attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the South Pole. But within a day's travel, the Endurance was trapped in unusually heavy pack ice. What followed is one of the most spectacular adventure stories ever an unbelievable tale of courage and survival. The crew drifted on ice floes for
Year Published: 2023
Soundies has been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn't begin to describe their cultural importance. It's true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band luminaries like Duke Ellington and Count Basie to then-emerging stars like Doris Day and Ricardo Montalban, and lesser-known artists of the American nightclub circuit. But Soundies are also a rich, largely overlooked chronicle of American popular culture during and just after World War II. Produced for coin-o
Year Published: 2009
Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young woman, Sayra, joins her father on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside. Along the way, she crosses paths with a teenage Mexican gang member, El Casper, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past. Together they have to rely on faith, trust, and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives.
Year Published: 2003
Japan at the beginning of the 17th Century, John Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked off the coast of Japan is rescued; he becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Tornaga, a feuding warlord intent on becoming Shogun-The Supreme Military Dictator. At the same time, Blackthorne is irresistibly drawn into the turmoil and finds himself vying to become the first-ever Gai-Jin (foreigner) to be a made a Samurai Warrior.
Year Published: 1985
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming SHOAH is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait in which the past is always present.
Year Published: 2017
Travel with renowned photographer Joel Sartore as he photographs at-risk and rare species in the wild, in zoos, and in nature preserves. The three-part series explores his Photo Ark initiative, which aims to document every species at risk of extinction. The captivating and visually stunning special will reveal why ensuring species future matters to everyone.
Year Published: 2011
The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this tribute by Wim Wenders. Shot in 3D, it is a remarkable visual experience and a vivid representation of Bausch's art, enacted by a group of talented dancers from her company.
Year Published: 1964
Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio's tenuous existence before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and m
Year Published: 2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.
Year Published: 2009
The National Parks tells the human history of five of the nation’s most important and most heavily visited National Parks (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Acadia, and the Great Smoky Mountains) and the unforgettable Americans who made them possible. Set against some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, each park’s story is filled with incidents and characters as gripping and fascinating as American history has to offer. Woven into the series will also be a broader, evolv
Year Published: 2022
When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder. He shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc's enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
Year Published: 2023
After a mother discovers that a teacher's bullying is behind her young son's sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers and with an increasingly distressed child, she furiously escalated her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges and proves much more complex than anyone could have expec
Year Published: 2023
While trying to salvage her career, a disgraced journalist turns to clickbait investigative podcasting, but her headstrong rush to generate headlines soon uncovers a strange artifact she believes is evidence of an alien conspiracy. But as the trail leads uncomfortably close to home, she is left to grapple with the lies at the heart of her own story.
Year Published: 2014
The makers of the Emmy Award(R)-winning series Life take viewers deeper than ever into the perilous and exhilarating drama humans share with every other animal on the planet, from the circumstances of birth and the struggle to reach adulthood, secure a home and find a mate, to the unpredictable challenges thrust on all creatures by the environment, enemies and even families.
Year Published: 2013
LIFE ON FIRE: VOLCANOES offers a close-up look at volcanoes and the effects on the environment around them. From the depths of the abyss to the high-altitude snow-capped peaks, the series paints a detailed picture of the struggles and amazing adaptation required to survive around volcanoes.
Year Published: 2012
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year; the film is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes viewers deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast-the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick- the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.