Films
For over 35 years, the story of the explosion at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant has intrigued many, and myriad movies, TV shows, and news programs…
MORE ›The profound desire to become a mother and the pressure from her surroundings drive Alejandra to fake a pregnancy. What begins as a simple lie turns into a complex charade to sustain for months before a hopeful husband and family. It unleashes a media scandal that won’t allow her to continue lying.
MORE ›Examining the effects of war and terrorism on the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, this story is told by the children. These…
MORE ›During the Second World War, 400 Jewish refugee children were saved in the tiny French village of Chabannes. This is the untold story of a…
MORE ›This film is a candid view into a community of homeless children living in and around a Moscow train station. The filmmakers observe the children’s…
MORE ›In 1906, Belgium’s Albert I founded the Ibis School to educate orphaned boys from the country’s seafaring communities. More than a hundred years later, the…
MORE ›In 2008, William D. Caballero began making an autobiographical film, traveling to the trailer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he grew up and interviewing his…
MORE ›Set in London, England, during the Industrial Revolution, The Chimney Swift is an animated short that offers a haunting yet handsomely illustrated view into the…
MORE ›Jasmine, a 16-year-old Chinese peasant, moves from the rural Sichuan province to the industrial city of Shaxi and finds work at the Lifeng blue jean…
MORE ›Shooting clandestinely, with smuggled equipment and under threat of arrest, director Micha Peled gains extraordinary access into life at a blue-jeans factory in China to give us an unprecedented look at the current state of Chinese labor.
MORE ›Every winter the Yurungkash River in western China dries up, revealing an expanse of river-worn stones. There, hidden within the rock, lies a buried treasure…
MORE ›Chisholm ’72 is an important lesson in the history of alternative electoral politics in America. Shirley Chisholm was a nursery school teacher in the 1940s and…
MORE ›A powerful look at the pioneering, grassroots campaign of the first African American woman to run for President.
MORE ›Christo’s Valley Curtain celebrates the Bulgarian-born artist’s dramatic hanging of a huge orange curtain between two Colorado mountains. Since the late 1950’s, Christo’s large-scale temporary works of art have helped change our perception of art and society.
MORE ›Enter a wondrous exploration of the meeting of heaven and Earth in this dynamic exchange between humans and the starry skies of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
MORE ›As T.S. Eliot said, “The immature artist borrows. The mature artist steals.” Steal from the masters! This film surveys the history, development and ongoing practice…
MORE ›Scientific data, animation, and man-on-the-street interviews collide in this portrait of life above the world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator.
MORE ›Expectations are high when the son and daughter of two famous circus families fall in love. But will the fickle flames of young romance threaten this perfect union?
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