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poster The Pollinators
The Pollinators
(3.7/5)
93mn - Documentary
Our complex food system rests on the wings of the honey bee and the commercial beekeepers that move them from farm to orchard, pollinating the crops that we eat.
poster Taken for a Ride
Taken for a Ride
(4/5)
52mn - Documentary
How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
poster Lambo
Lambo
100mn - Documentary
Aarron Lambert is a controversial man that provokes the system and inspires the public. A cinematic documentary following the struggles and successes of a voice that must be heard from childhood through t…
poster Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary
Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency,…
poster Stealing a Nation
Stealing a Nation
(4.2/5)
56mn - Documentary
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos i…
poster Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
(3.8/5)
98mn - Documentary
Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.
poster The Other Final
The Other Final
(3.9/5)
78mn - Documentary
The Other Final is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Johan Kramer, about a football match between Bhutan and Montserrat, the then-lowest ranked teams in the FIFA World Rankings.
poster Passage of Venus
Passage of Venus
(3.5/5)
1mn - Documentary
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revo…
poster Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen
Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.
poster Danse Tyrolienne
Danse Tyrolienne
1mn - Documentary
A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.
poster Swimming in the Sea
Swimming in the Sea
(2.9/5)
1mn - Documentary
Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
poster Rentrée à l'étable
Rentrée à l'étable
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.
poster The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
(2.6/5)
19mn - Documentary
This legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch Rector recorded the entire fight, simultaneously creat…
poster Men Boxing
Men Boxing
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster The Emperor of Russia's Arrival in Elsinore
The Emperor of Russia's Arrival in Elsinore
1mn - Documentary
Nikolai II (1868-1918), the last Russian czar, son of Alexander III and Dagmar. He had been in Denmark on vacation with his parents several times. The royal houses usually met in September to celebrate Qu…
poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
(3.3/5)
1mn - Documentary
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…
poster Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary, History, War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of com…
poster Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
1mn - Documentary
Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.
poster Touch the Sound
Touch the Sound
(3.6/5)
99mn - Documentary, Music
A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.
poster The Untold Truth: Dodi and Diana
The Untold Truth: Dodi and Diana
43mn - Documentary
The following Summer after her divorce from Prince Charles, Diana, Princess of Wales, began dating Dodi Al-Fayed. The relationship between the two is shrouded in mystery. Was she falling in love or was it…
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