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Publisher
Rick Steves' Europe
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Includes all 8 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on France, produced from 2000 to 2014: Paris-Regal and Intimate; Paris: Embracing Life and Art; Highlights of Paris: Eiffel and Monet to Creme Brulee; Normandy: War-Torn Yet Full of Life; Provence: Legendary Light, Wind and Wine; French Riviera: Uniquely Chic; Burgundy: Profoundly French; France's Dordogne.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Portuguese
Description
Found memories: "Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving...
Series
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007, c2004
Language
English
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
10) A tuba to Cuba
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The leader of New Orleans famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band seeks to fulfill his late father's dream of retracing their musical roots to the shores of Cuba in search of the indigenous music that gave birth to New Orleans jazz.
11) Mark Twain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
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