Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band.
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A powerful documentary about the extraordinary team of doctors and activists--including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl--whose work thirty years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all. The community health model they developed to treat diseases like tuberculosis & HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives in the developing world. Epic, yet intimate, the film is a compelling argument for the power of collective and personal vision--and will--to turn the tide of history.
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Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his home by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes. Inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efrain Rios Montt for crimes against humanity, Jayro Bustamante's film fuses folk horror and searing political commentary to craft a chilling vision of a national reckoning with collective harms and the restless ghosts of a past that refuses to die.
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The story of a young Afghan woman's brave fight for justice after experiencing years of abuse at the hands of her father.
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Atomic Bamboozle follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant.
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Follow a novel experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food and income. "If we continue business as usual, 90 percent of the reef will be challenged and disappear by 2030," says former President Mohamed Nasheed. "We are witnessing the death of a nation."
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By sharing three women's intimately personal stories, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the recent political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms.
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Shows the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and the reproductive outsourcing business that brings them together. Weaving together these personal stories within the context of a growing international industry.
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Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration explores the native seed supply chain in the western United States.
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Nice Chinese Girls Don't is a portrait of Kitty Tsui--an iconic Asian American lesbian, poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder who came of age in the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement in San Francisco.
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As governments, corporations and universities pour funds into quantum science, and breakthroughs in quantum technology gather pace, important questions about the reality of a quantum future remain unanswered.
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Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TIKTOK, BOOM. examines the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural influences and impact of the history-making app.
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Unseen follows Jess and Ryan Ronne, a blended family with 8 children, including Lucas, who has profound disabilities requiring total care.
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Examines the consequences of vaccine hesitancy and denial. It's a war anti-vax activists have been fighting for more than a decade.
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"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Taking Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: a biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary Orlando, my political biography--a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. For almost a century, Woolf's eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf's narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation.
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This unflinching, playful, and vital film spends intimate time with four transgender sex workers who share their thoughts on, and experiences of, Black womanhood. In Kokomo city, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City--Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell, and Dominique Silver--who unapologetically break down the walls of their profession. Holding nothing back, the film vibrates with energy, sex, challenge, and hard-earned wisdom.
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32 sounds is an immersive feature documentary and profound sensory experience from Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Sam Green featuring original music by JD Samson. The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 specific sound explorations into a cinematic meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. Join Sam Green as he takes the audience on a journey through time and space, exploring everything from forgotten childhood memories, to the soundtrack of resistance, to subaquatic symphonies--and experience in new ways the astonishing sounds of our everyday lives. 32 sounds investigates the mysterious nature of perception and the subtle yet radical politics that arise from sensation and being present in one's body.
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A madcap socialite heiress hires an erudite homeless man to be her butler, much to the dismay of her father, but it turns out that the man isn't a penniless bum at all, he's a member of a wealthy Boston family.
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In an American desert town in the mid-fifties, the Junior Stargazer Convention attracts stargazers of different ages. A group of students and their parents visit the town to attend the event. What follows is an unexpected exchange of ideas and experiences that lead to eye-opening revelations.
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Descending from a prestigious family, Coriolanus Snow is having a hard time adjusting to the fall of his family's legacy after they suffered enormous losses during the war of the Districts and the Capitol. To regain his family's stature, he accepts a job mentoring tributes invented for the upcoming tenth Hunger Games. A prequel to The Hunger Games series, this adaptation follows the story of Coriolanus Snow during his youth.
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A psychotic woman hires a hitman to kill her daughter's ex-con boyfriend.
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There is a dizzying diversity of species on our planet. From genetic evidence we know that all of those species evolved from a single ancient ancestor. But how does one species split in to many? Through the evolutionary process of speciation--which begins when populations become isolated by changes in geography or by shifts in behavior so that they no longer interbreed. This video illustrates the speciation process in birds to help you understand the basis of Earth's biodiversity.
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In the dim light of the West Africa forest beautiful guenon monkeys send messages to each other with colourful face patterns. These forests are full of eagles, leopards and chimps, but the guenons have an extraordinary antipredator alliance to deal with them. Communication in monkeys goes way beyond simple colour signals though. These intelligent mammals often live in large groups--where the socially skilled excel. When toque macaque monkeys battle for mates, we see how brain can triumph over brawn. A change in climate forced one group of African monkeys down from the trees and on to the grasslands. But living on the ground brought an increased risk from predators, forcing baboons to live in larger groups where social skills became even more important.
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Rising out of the highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are the ruins of the long-secluded, spectacular Great Zimbabwe. Long mistakenly identified as the remnants of some ancient white civilization, the spectacular ruins of the Great Zimbabwe are only now being recognized for what they are: Southern Africa's first city. This program looks at the work being done to restore this archaeological site to its African heritage.
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This segment of Smoke from his fire explains the Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch system in an unprecedented manner by Ninogaad (knowledge holders) Kwaxsistalla and Myanilth. Both were uniquely trained according to their gender, since childhood, and were the last to be trained in this manner. The Potlatch is explained as this system was organized prior to the anti-potlatch laws in Canada. Kwaxsistalla himself modified many of the ceremonies to accommodate the underground practise of potlatching that occurred in his Clan until the laws lifted in 1951. Kwaxsistalla was the last traditionally trained Potlatch Speaker in the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation, with teachings and ceremonies from the beginning of time.
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The huge earthworks and mounds scattered through the eastern half of the United States prompted people in the nineteenth century to speculate that a lost civilization had preceded the Indigenous peoples then living among the mounds. Though we've known for some time that the ancestors of those peoples actually built the mounds, archaeologists are still exploring their contents for a better understanding of their builders.
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This is the complete 2006 staging of Aristophanes' shocking comic masterpiece, featuring Iris McQuillan-Grace in the title role. A talented ensemble cast and shows why sexual politics are timelessly funny. The staging was remastered in HD in 2016.
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