Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mali, and Vietnam -- as they lead day-to-day battles against ignorance, poverty, oppression, and ethnic strife.
An intimate portrait of an oft-forgotten character in Hollywood: the screenwriter. Raised in Baghdad, screenwriter Mardik Martin was infused with an early love for movies when he was sent to the U.S. by his family to avoid being drafted into the Iraqi army. Mardik discovered the NYU cinema department, and there he met Martin Scorsese; their friendship would lead to some of the greatest films in American cinema.
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Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can success turn on us? Can we get caught up in a smaller world where our lives are all about the things that we want? Or is there another way to live? Where life is about more than just us. Where we see people in need and we do something about it. Where our world is expanding because we are sharing our success. And maybe in attempting to save someone else from their suffering, we find out that we are actually the ones being saved.
A precocious young boy strikes up an unlikely friendship with a checked-out slacker in his thirties.
A look at the evolution of an animal we all know and love -- the penguin. Known for a complex social hierarchy as well as their ability to withstand some of the most harsh temperatures in nature, penguins have proven themselves among one of the most adaptable species on the planet.
A study of the stereotypes associated with revolution in movies.
'Ryssviken' (roughly translated to The Russian Bay) is the name of decrepit harbour, viewed by some as a junkyard or a boat cemetery; yet it is the home of several people who reside in old trawlers and barges - people who will soon be forced to leave due to upcoming plans of building a large residential area.
SHOAH BY BULLETS reveals a chapter of the «final solution» that is generally misunderstood or even unknown: the stories of the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered by gun shot by Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the last part was being filmed.