A Little Comfort
Arnaud and Guillaume are in their last year of high school. Summer is approaching and like any teenager, they're thinking about cigarettes, alcohol and sex. But boys or girls? Future looks so blurry when you're a teenager!
Amongst the Persuaded
The human susceptibility to delusional thinking has, at least, this defining characteristic: easy to spot in others, hard to see in oneself. The filmmaker, racked by the inescapable observation that it is delusional thinking that is the common denominator driver of so many contemporary man-made disasters gins up a vehicle meant to ruthlessly uncover and expose his own particular brand of pathological believing. This film is about us. I believe its true. See the iron jaws of the mechanism at work as the filmmaker falls into the biggest and most obvious delusion of all: the belief that he can master his own delusions by making a film about them.
An Evening with Scott Hamilton & Friends
Champion figure skater Scott Hamilton carves up the rink in this ice-skating extravaganza, accompanied by live music from renowned pianist Michael Feinstein and guest vocalist Darlene Love. Brian Orser, Yuka Sato, Jenni Meno, Ekaterina Gordeeva and other noted skaters join the Olympic gold medalist in innovative routines set to "Stormy Weather," "The Best Is Yet to Come," "Someone to Watch over Me" and other tunes.
An Ambiguous Funeral
This film is based on a decomposed footage entitled "the president of the hospital's funeral" which was made by anonymous cineaste in Kyoto, 1937.
An Uphill Climb
An Uphill Climb is the remarkable story of Kyle Packer. Born with cerebral palsy and confined to a wheel chair much of the time, Packer refuses to allow his condition-or the perception it creates in others-to define his limits.
Analog Stress
Consists of scratched and reanimated found industrial and discarded personal footage. The sonic soundtrack is similarly reconstructed from scratches, pen marks, Letraset strips and the music and phrases of found films.
Anam: Il Senzanome
Last interview of journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani
Anatomy of a Bear Bite
Experts disclose the realities of a bear attack in this program, which features accounts by survivors and advice for avoiding an attack. Behavioral scientists explain what factors cause a bear to go after humans, and survivor Ken Norton recounts his terrifying ordeal fending off an angry bear. Engineers build a robotic bear to demonstrate the blow-by-blow details of an attack, and the experiment reveals a victim's best chance at survival.
Ancient Olympics: Let the Games Begin
Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions and cheaters, glory and scandals, bitter rivalries and contests of strength, speed and savage combat. Set in 448 BC when the pounding of horse's hooves and the brutal hand-to-hand combat could be heard and seen by the crowds that filled the Olympic stadium. This one-hour special event follows the glory and corruption of the arc of a single, five-day Olympiad. The competitions include chariot racing, running, jumping, discus, javelin and two man-to-man combat finals-boxing and pankration, a form of extreme fighting in which death was not uncommon. With the help of sports historians and great athletes such as George Chuvalo and Olympic medallists Donovan Bailey and Angela Schneider, viewers travel back to a very different life-in a very different world.