Robert Mugabe... What Happened?
Robert Mugabe... what happened?, charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country, and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist, then knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and is still in power more than 30 ...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Delivered Vacant
Hoboken, New Jersey--"Naples on the Hudson" to some, a square mile of prime real estate to others. Filmmaker Nora Jacobson spent eight years documenting Hoboken's battles over gentrification, from boom in the '80s to bust in the '90s. This epic, dra...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Mystic Voices: The Story Of The Pequot War
What led to the first declared war in America? Why is the slaughter seldom talked about?
In May 1637, English Puritan colonists torch a Pequot Indian village at Missituck (Mystic), Connecticut, massacring 400-700 men, women and children in less th...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Leviathan
unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it breaks new ground in both cinema and
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
A Trial in Prague
Chronicles an infamous political show trial that took place in Czechoslovakia at the height of the Cold War. In 1952 fourteen leading Communists, including Rudolf Slansky, the second most powerful man in the country, were tried on charges of high tr...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
I'm leaving now
The film follows Felipe, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, who has reached a crossroads: after 16 years in Brooklyn, working three low-paying jobs and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children in Mexico, he's decided to return home ...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Scandalize My Name
This potent documentary, narrated by Morgan Freeman, examines several prominent African-American performers in the American film and television industries during the 1950s Communist witch-hunting McCarthy era.
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Never Perfect
How are ideals of beauty influenced by race, history, and geopolitics? With a rich selection of film clips and archival footage, Never Perfect examines the dramatic rise in popularity of cosmetic surgery among Asian-American women.
In 2006, there ...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Limbo
An oneiric journey through Alex’s life as a former guerrilla leads to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. He is haunted by a dream of dueling with the devil, a nightmare he can only vanquish with the help of yagé (ayahuasca), a psychotropic...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
No Easy Walk: Kenya
Part of the No Easy Walk series, this video traces the history of Kenya's opposition to white rule, from the arrival of the first settlers in the 19th century to the Mau-Mau rebellion in 1952, in which the struggle for land rights was central. Early...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.