Musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti recorded more than 60 albums to promote the magic of Afrobeat but never lost his political voice as an outspoken critic against widespread government corruption in Nigeria. This documentary examines the role that Fela, dubbed "Black President," played in shedding light on atrocities in his homeland and in promoting the ascent of African music worldwide.
Travel with Major Lazer to Ghana and Nigeria to make the world smaller by making the party bigger. T...
Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti performs at the 1984 Glastonbury Festival. Originally produced for Arena.
A huge influence on world music, Nigerian artist Fela Kuti played many instruments, pioneered afrobe...
Aline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of...
In September of 2017, 77 year old Nigerian drummer Tony Allen was invited to record the album 'What ...
Lisa, a plus-sized African American woman, concludes that her boyfriend broke up with her because of...
Afrobeat emerged in Lagos, Nigeria in the 1970s. The film follows an Afrobeat tube broadcast, from i...
An interview with French film scholar Jean Narboni about Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 film VIVRE SA VIE.
This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...
Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wie...
This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
On October 27th, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing eleven people as ...
Feature documentary on the life and career of Tony winner Idina Menzel, culminating in her headlinin...
Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives ...
A mother and her adult son, who communicates with spirits through ecstatic dance, live completely al...
An animated film with documentary elements. The protagonists perform repetitive tasks at a CD factor...
A film of the Czech multimedia theatre production, Magician's Lantern. Eight Czechoslovak directors ...
The film recreates the world of a small Texas town in 1909, based on photos and letters. It tells th...
As summer ends, Ren's bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write...