A chronicle of Williams' life as entertainers Margaret Cho, Howie Mandel, Barry Levinson, Pauly Shore, Lewis Black and others weigh in on the comic legend.
Three friends, soon to be roommates, cook dinner together.
Mt. Hakkoda (ドキュメンタリー八甲田山, Documentary Hakkōda san) is a 2014 film about the Hakkōda Mountains incident. It is based on the non-fiction book Tragedy in a Blizzard by Koshu Ogasawara.
The Making of The Tunnel (2011)
An exploration of the site of the first purpose-built modern film studio in the US (American Vitagraph Company) which operated from 1907 through the silent era, was repurposed into a yeshiva school for girls in the early 1980s, and rebuilt in 2000s for residential use with the original 70-foot smokestack still intact. The film includes interviews with film historians and descendants of the studio founders; re-photographed nitrate fragments of films that were produced at the Brooklyn studios over 100 years ago; and original footage shot inside the yeshiva school and of the building during and after demolition. The film explores both profound resistances and persistent echoes of national and local cultural histories, the archeology of the American film industry, local neighborhood demographics, gentrification, and politics.
Dorothea Mitchell – A Reel Pioneer recounts in Mitchell’s own words the amazing life of a pioneer filmmaker. Seventy years later a group of local enthusiasts in Thunder Bay, reinvent the silent pictures, by finishing “The Fatal Flower”,the murder mystery Dorothea had bequeathed to the national Archives of Canada. With no script to work from and some missing scenes, the group nurtured “The Fatal Flower” back to life.
Kaniela: The Danny Kaleikini Story, is a biographical documentary based on the life of the man known as Hawaii’s Ambassador of Aloha, as told in his own words. Born into a large family with limited resources, Kaleikini learned the value of hard work by selling newspapers, shining shoes and singing on street corners at a young age to help support his family. He developed his singing and entertaining skills during his family’s weekend backyard parties. Kaleikini began working in Hawaii’s tourism industry in the 1950’s and after learning lessons from other local entertainers, blossomed into a beloved and globally known entertainer with over 30 years of performing in Hawaii, Las Vegas and Japan.
This film celebrates the 40th anniversary of King Gustaf V's entry and shows the king in both private and public.
A short film.
Sara had been in a concentration camp. Ema was a Jewish girl who married Swedish artist Anders Zorn. Ruben suffered from megalomania and was a patient in a mental hospital.
About the Swedish artist Anders Zorn's unknown passion for photography. Some of them models for later works and others are innovative photo experiments.
Six episodes about people who all live on the fringes of society. Documentary filmmaker Staffan Lamm pauses before some events in his life. He talks about his family with his schizophrenic uncle as a common thread. The maternal uncle's illness has haunted and worried Staffan over the years, and he reflects on the impact of the legacy and how it inevitably leaves its mark on social life, work and dreams.
FRONTLINE investigates for-profit universities and their predatory ways against those who have served in the military.
"An Evening at the Inn Knutte Knopp" - Around the inn Gröna Lund on Långa gatan at Djurgården, Stockholm in 1932. Bellman songs, drinking and a saxophone cabaret.
A documentary about the greek band Raining Pleasure and the music scene surrounding them
Além Da Costa follows the story of Portuguese surfer and pastor of Surf Church Samuel Cianelli as he finds the Lord through the love of surfing. “We are a church for surfers and we exist to serve the community”
“The church is more family now than surfers”