Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia: Wars
For 80-year-old Uri, Israel’s 1948 War of Independence has brought nothing but glory. He’s considered a legend in his hometown on the volatile Israel-Lebanon border, and young recruits hang on his every word. By contrast, Qahir’s prospects for...
Contributor(s): Journeyman Pictures (Firm)
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women's Film
This documentary explores the works of women film directors, specifically the differences explicit in women's point of view, and expression of desire as articulated in films by women. In interviews, women directors working today discuss how their de...
Subject: Women motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews
Behind The Screens
Behind the Screens explores the trend toward "hypercommercialism" in Hollywood film: product placement, tie-ins, merchandising, and cross-promotions. The film mixes clips from popular Hollywood films with expert commentary to show how movies have b...
Subject: Advertising--Motion pictures--United States
On Cannibalism
King Kong meets the family photograph in this provocative experimental video exploring the West's insatiable appetite for native bodies in museums, world's fairs, and early cinema. Intertwining personal narrative about race and identity in the U.S. ...
Subject: Asians in motion pictures
This Is Nollywood
First came Hollywood, then Bollywood, and now Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, which released 2,000 feature features in 2006 alone. This program explains why Nigerian film production, little known outside its own country until recently,...
Subject: Motion picture industry -- Nigeria
The world's largest studio
Larger than Universal's and Paramount's combined, Hengdian World Studios features 12 motion picture shooting sites spanning different periods of
Subject: Motion picture studios--China--Hengdian zhen
Triptych, or Devotional Picture by Violet Oakley at Floyd Bennett Field
Postcard is a color real photo of the devotional picture, or triptych, by Violet Oakley at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, N.Y. The postcard is
Film history
The Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison would definitely be impressed if they could see how far the medium created with the invention of the movie camera has evolved. This program examines the history of film, from its beginnings in the late 19th cen...
Subject: Universal Pictures Company--History
Transcript: , when the immigrant filmmakers were trying to run circles around them and pretty well succeeding, they fell out of the picture. And the immigrant
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
motion picture in France in the 1890s, Alice Guy-Blaché went on to found her own successful production company in the US, producing and writing more than
Subject: Women motion picture producers and directors -- Biography
All restrictions end: the politics of clothes
This film discusses the evolution of fashion in contemporary Iran. With clothing as the leitmotif, the filmmaker provides the history of Iran, the country of his birth. The film is structured like a collage, interweaving archival footage from Irania...
Subject: Motion pictures--Iran