An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “Pelican” for the letter ‘P’, the hermit goes to the nearby park to see this animal he has never heard of.
Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the...
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an ...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
via print and film, love and music, state propaganda and people's archives, five-year plans and Emer...
Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words. Living in eight slums (favelas)...
The best of Led Zeppelin's legendary 1973 appearances at Madison Square Garden. Interspersed through...
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But ...
Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams ...
Alaska Silence & Solitude is the follow up to Alone in the Wilderness, filmed 20 years later. Bob Sw...
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the densest place on earth, a virtually lawless labyri...
In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing author...
Fourth film in the Mafrouza series. Two events mark the early winter in Mafrouza: the birth of a boy...
Documentary about Lars Theodor Jonsson who was a cross country skier in the 1920s and 30s and now li...
A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws...
Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other one 65, are the core of a community th...