4by Tim Slade and Joanna Buggy In four corners of the globe on four different days throughout the year, four violinists and a small ensemble of their musician friends come together to perform one of the most well loved pieces of music in the world; Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Acrobatby Olivier Meyrou Fabrice Champion was an accomplished trapeze artist when a circus accident paralyzed him from the neck down. But he is determined to return to the big top. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Belarusian Waltzby Andrzej Fidyk and Torstein Grude In Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship, performance artist Alexander Pushkin uses his "patriotic" art to protest his government's policies and persecution. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection, POV | |
Blessed Is the Matchby Roberta Grossman Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Women and Girls Lead, Global Voices, Independent Lens | |
Fair Playby David Herman A troupe of actors — most with learning disabilities — confront the challenges of being different, while rehearsing The Choice, an acclaimed play about abortion. Global Perspectives Collection | |
Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bendsby Jasmine Dellal A rare and dazzling look inside the world of top Romani performers, who transcend social isolation and community poverty through their music. | |
Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Storyby Dante James and Charles Hobson Based on the book by William Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story looks at the impact of African American performers and musicians during the great jazz era in Paris. Great Performances | |
Last Days of the Arcticby Margret Jonasdottir and Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson RAX is a photographer who has made a career of capturing the human faces of climate change, and the vanishing lifestyles of the Far North. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmosby James Chressanthis Two Hungarian film students escaped communist Hungary in 1956, with little more than a camera and a shopping bag full of film. Over the next 50 years, Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond would reinvent Hollywood moviemaking for an entire generation — and maintain an iron-clad friendship along the way. Independent Lens | |
Still Life with Animated Dogsby Paul Fierlinger From his dark days in Communist Czechoslovakia through brighter times in the United States, animator Paul Fierlinger has navigated through life with dog as his co-pilot. Independent Lens |
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