During World War II the United States of America did everything to persuade Salazar to grant them facilities on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. After long and difficult negotiations an agreement between Portugal and the USA for the construction of an airport is celebrated.
Dr. Feelgood shares several perspectives on prescription drug use, exploring the issues involved when doctors are faced with patients seeking help for chronic pain.
A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists. The choice of occupation for the daughter, a researcher, perhaps strains the narrative conceit too far. Nevertheless, for an avowedly political documentary the result is absorbing.
A sober exploration of this generation's hopes, dreams and fears for themselves and for post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong.
Professional photographers and UFO video hunters capture extraordinary objects in the skies around the world.
The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.
Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron and Ricardo Montalban urge the audience (in their native tongues, subtitled) to write letters home speaking of how wonderful life in the United States is.
This documentary is based around a vision and a mission to help everyone understand how to unlock their own potential, power and journey to abundance. We believe that we all have an unlimited wealth of potential within us, and that we just need to learn how to tap in and find it. It’s in there, because we were born with it.
In Behind Flower and Snake, together with extreme Japanese director Takashi Ishii, Aya Sugimoto shows you how they transformed this adaptation of erotica author Dan Oniroku's novel into the controversial hit, Flower & Snake (2004). This film features the behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes. You can hear what the director and actress think about the making of the film, and see for yourself how Aya Sugimoto made her character alive.
After leaving school with no qualifications and struggling to hold down a full time job, 18 year old Alfie set up his own business on his tandem bike and trailer. Despite becoming a bit of a local hero in his hometown of Clitheroe, Alfie is forced to find other ways of making ends meet after being banned from the local tip.
The Canadian Football League’s most passionate fan base and how it had its heart ripped out during the most infamous moment in CFL history.
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.
View from a train in the Montreux region.
In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!
"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.