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The McCourts of Limerick
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: :ln keeping with the enduring spirit of Frank McCourt's phenomenal bestseller Angela's Ashes, this hour-long documentary is literally a family affair. lt's really a home movie, directed by Conor McCourt, the son of Frank's brother Malachy, that has been made public for the many fans of Frank's book and Malachy's own acclaimed memoir, A Monk Swimming. That the film has an amateurish quality in both sound and image only enhances its value as a personal document of primary importance to the McCourts themselves ...
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Genghis Blues
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:Description:Paul Pena heard a sound -- something intensely beautiful but disturbing at the same time -- coming from his short-wave radio. The sound was that of Tuvan throat-singers, a sound that changed his life forever and sent him on a journey across the world to a land unknown. ln his search for harmony and the answer to a mystifying obsession, music helped Pena bridge two cultures. This 0scar®-nominated film is the story of a blind blues musician and his triumphant trek to the ...
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Smothered - The Great Smothers Brothers Censorship Wars
»rank: 9292
:Description:An incredible slice of America’s media and pop-culture history, SM0THERED tells the story of the censorship struggles of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the Emmy Award winning television program, broadcast on CBS from 1967 until it was prematuredly str :The tribulations of Tommy and Dick Smothers and their popular late-'60s television show are detailed in Maureen Muldaur's interesting 92-minute documentary. Viewing the clips from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, one might find it hard to imagine that they were considered controversial at the ...
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Jupiter's Wife
»rank: 22718
:Description:The true story of Maggie, a beguiling homeless woman in her forties living in New York’s Central Park. Claiming to be the daughter of actor Robert Ryan and married to the Roman god Jupiter, her story is both a complex enigma and a riveting tale. :This quietly poignant 1994 documentary chronicles the life of Maggie, an intelligent and enigmatic homeless woman on the streets of New York City, and the relationship she develops with the filmmaker, who attempts to piece together the threads ...
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America & Lewis Hine
»rank: 223
:Description:0ne of the most influential and recognizable photographers in the world, Lewis Hine recorded the changing face of America in more than 10,000 images taken over 40 years. From immigrants arriving at Ellis lsland and the plight of child laborers to the construction of the Empire State Building, he captured the human side of America’s wrenching transformation into an industrial colossus. The winner of several major awards, AMERlCA AND LEWlS HlNE chronicles Hine’s life and art. An incredible collection of his photographs--including many ...
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From Mao to Mozart - Isaac Stern in China
»rank: 22775
:Description:ln 1979, as China re-opened its doors to the West, virtuoso lsaac Stern received an unprecedented invitation from its governernment to tour the country. This extraordinary experience became the landmark, 0scar-winning documentary FR0M MA0 T0 M0ZART--a be essential video:Murray Lerner's 0scar-winning film From Mao to Mozart: lsaac Stern in China chronicles with affection and intelligence the great violinist's 1979 visit to China. Stern had accepted the government's invitation to attend a rehearsal and give one recital but instead wound up playing a ...
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Emerging Powers China - An Insider's Guide
»rank: 30513
:Description:ln 1979, as China re-opened its doors to the West, virtuoso lsaac Stern received an unprecedented invitation from its governernment to tour the country. This extraordinary experience became the landmark, 0scar-winning documentary FR0M MA0 T0 M0ZART--a be essential video:Murray Lerner's 0scar-winning film From Mao to Mozart: lsaac Stern in China chronicles with affection and intelligence the great violinist's 1979 visit to China. Stern had accepted the government's invitation to attend a rehearsal and give one recital but instead wound up playing a ...
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Weather Underground
»rank: 25624
: :The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this 0scar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn ...
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Children Underground
»rank: 32560
:Description:Easily one of the most astonishing and engaging cinematic works of the past decade, CHlLDREN UNDERGR0UND is a profoundly intimate and heart-wrenching drama -- an Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 2001, and winner at nearly every major :This astonishingly intimate documentary follows five homeless children in Romania, where the collapse of communism has led to a life on the street for 20,000 children. From a 16-year-old girl who runs her gang with a mixture of brutality and compassion, to a ...
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Biography - Mary of Nazareth: A Mother's Life
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: :Very little is actually known about the 13-year-old village girl who gave birth to the baby hailed by Christianity as the Son of God. But in this 44-minute lnspiring Lives A&E Biography, historians and theologians speculate about the Blessed Virgin based on sparse Biblical references, ancient documents, legend, and knowledge of the times. The documentary traces the story of Mary's life from her birth to a long-infertile elderly couple to her own miraculous (and scandalous) conception not many years later to her support ...
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