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Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children labelled "unteachable" were spotlighted in a 1979 "60 Minutes" segment about how she became disillusioned with the traditional school system and decided to work outside of it, transforming her students into young scholars through her unique teaching style.
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
A slave in 19th Century Egypt revolts against his masters for equal rights for slaves to live freely.
An old man recounts: I have always worn glasses. Even in the camp, I managed to keep them. We feared the night almost as much as the day. One night, they brought in a newcomer, a bearded man. His drawings over the days had become essential to us. The guards did not understand that only death would prevent him from drawing. All that remains of the camp is this piece of wall, with his last drawing, which he called "Ligne de vie (Lifeline)."
A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
An anti-war short film that showcases the horror of modern warfare and its toll on the human psyche as seen in the 1930 Best Picture winner at the 3rd annual Academy Awards All Quiet on the Western Front. The film is paired with a reading of Rudyard Kipling's 1903 Anti-War poem Boots.
Can one recent local election in Louisiana tell us anything about the state of race relations in twenty-first century America? RACE is a story of high ground and low roads in post-Katrina New Orleans politics.
In the seventies, during the Richard Nixon administration, Documerica, a large-scale photographic project, led by the US Environmental Protection Agency, sought to document the country's environmental situation. The tens of thousands of photos, taken by hundreds of photographers, constitute a unique archive, showing a landscape ravaged by pollution and environmental degradation.
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older German sexologist and gay rights pioneer during Nazi Germany.
In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji, Kitakyushu, rides out into the oil business, but is faced with numerous challenges and competitors who stand in his way, including domestic suppliers and major western oil companies, or the "oil majors". But Tetsuzo never gave up, however despairing the situation was. He always found a way and paved a new road with his unconventional ideas, eccentric actions, and most of all, his caring heart toward his own men. That style of Tetsuzo's was not something that would ever change, even when the tides were against him in a war-lost Japan.
A young mother, grieving the loss of her daughter. The country, facing partition. Loss and mayhem. Will humanity prevail?
After the great native revolt called King Philip's War, a woman who was 'captured' must testify in writing for the Puritan leaders. But once the ink is on paper, whose story is it?
Based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's "Crimean Stories": "In the Shackles of Satan", "On the Stone" and "Under the Minarets".
Karasai's parent Altynai prepares his son for subsequent participation in battles from an early age, teaching the boy various martial arts and skills. The boy willingly listens to his father's recommendations, and already in childhood he confidently uses a whip and a sword. When Karasai turns into an adult youth, a period of famine sets in, from which the relatives of the young man suffer. The guy leads the herds of his fellow tribesmen to fertile arable land, and soon aggressive Dzungars attack the lands of his people.
The story of a train in 1865, transporting $450,000 that gets robbed, with the thieves taking off with $180,000.
During the First World War, a 14-year-old boy is under fire from bombs in the Besançon region. Wounded, he wakes up in the cellar of his "savior," a mad scientist who performs abominable transplants. Soon, the young man discovers a protrusion emerging from his navel... A hand!
In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as "Heaven's Gate" committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.
For the first time in 35 years, musicians set out from the entrance of the Zangezur Corridor toward ancient Ordubad. In neighborhoods that have become part of the region's historical heritage, *Ordubad bayatis* are performed to the accompaniment of authentic music for the first time. Customs and traditions—spanning from the city center to the most remote villages, previously unspoken of and unique to this area—are being brought to life. The musicians' primary mission is to reveal the rhythms of Ordubad—rhythms that have endured for millennia yet remained hidden until now.
Behind the lines in the Supreme Court confirmation wars... where justice and politics collide.