Center for Independent Documentary
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Allan Poe: buried alive draws on the rich palette of Poe's evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author. Featuring Tony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare, the film explores the misrepresentations of Poe as an alcoholic madman. It reveals the way in which Poe tapped into what it means to be a human in the modern and sometimes frightening world." --
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The story of the musical Carter and Cash families, the dynasty at the heart of country music. Starting with the Original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, this film traces the flow of their influence through generations of musicians, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the efforts of the present-day family to keep this musical legacy alive. Featuring Johnny...
Publisher
Steve Gentile & Jim Wolpaw
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"A filmmaker who is stumped but captivated by Emily Dickinson's poetry searches for 'flashes of insight' into the elusive poet beyond those offered by his lively but traditional interviews with experts such as actress Julie Harris and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. So he turns to shrinks, a sensitive, a stand-up comic, a rock band, even a fan with an Emily tattoo across his back. Still unsatisfied, he holds auditions in which dozens of actresses...
4) Blue vinyl
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Skeptical of her parents' decision to re-side their home with polyvinyl chloride, Judith Helfand set out to find the truth behind the toxic effects of the material. Helfland & Daniel Gold travel from Long Island to Louisiana to Venice Italy, where thirty-one executives from a PVC-producing company now await trial for manslaughter.
5) Coexist
Publisher
Upstander Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Coexist gives voice to personal stories of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, journalists, scholars, and social commentators nearly a generation after the Rwanda genocide. It was made during the country's unprecedented social experiment in reconciliation, as 60,000 perpetrators were released from prison back into the communities where they pillaged and raped, and murdered nearly 800,000 people in 1994. Coexist and its four-lesson Teacher's Guide...
6) Dawnland
Publisher
Tugg EDU
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For decades, child welfare authorities have been forcibly removing Native American children from their homes to 'save' them from being Indian. [As of 1974, at least 1 in 4 Native American children nationwide had been separated from their families]. In Maine, the first official 'truth and reconciliation commission' in the United States begins an unprecedented investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body deals with difficult...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women immigrated to the United States and, starting with next to nothing, created what is today the $150 billion global health and beauty industry.
Publisher
Upstander Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, the United States government has taken Native American children away from their tribes, devastating parents and denying children their traditions, culture, and identity. First Light : documents these practices from the 1800s to today and tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare workers in Maine. ; Dear Georgina : follows the Passamaquoddy elder from Motankomikuk...
9) One big home
Publisher
Elephant in the Room Productions
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gentrification comes in many forms. On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the island's unique character. Twelve years in the making, One Big Home follows one carpenter's journey to understand the trend toward giant houses. When he feels complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, he takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera. Bumping up against angry homeowners...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Relays personal coming out stories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the developing world. The film explores to lives of gay and lesbian people in non-western cultures. Travelling to five different continents, we hear the heartbreaking and triumphant stories of gays and lesbians from Egypt, Honduras, Thailand and elsewhere, where most occurrences of oppression receive no media coverage at all. By sharing the personal stories coming...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Before Stonewall presents the story of the gay and lesbian experience in the United States since the 1920s. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots that followed the police raid of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village.
After Stonewall traces the gay rights movement in America from the 1969 raid on the Stonwall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, through the...
