Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives are interwoven through the production of the silk and the beauty it creates. However, as the technology advances, the trade is threatened by computerization and globalization.

The Medal of Honor is awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her li...


The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes beh...

A journey into four classical elements through the four main characters of the film. The main charac...

A look back at the life and career of Japanese guitarist hide, who died under questionable circumsta...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

The slave ships during the XVII and XVIII century transported millions of colored people from Africa...

Exactly like an Hour of Slack X-Day radio show, except that you can see it. Shot mostly in DV by Rev...

The Pony Express delivered mail from coast to coast for only 18 months. Yet during its brief glory d...

An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-c...

A documentary about the great American movie palaces of the 1920s and 1930s. Filmed on location at s...

In this retrospective tribute, acclaimed filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw hails the 100th anniversary of Mo...

As a gay man, filmmaker Arshad Khan examines his troubled relationship with his devout, Muslim fathe...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...
The Sufi and the Scientist is the collective story of Sufi healer Sayyid Arif Hussain, the medieval ...

It is hard to find a family home where all the members have gone to live their separate lives in dif...

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar...