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Détournement of a military training film, stolen from the Belgian army, augmented with a farcical credit sequence.

‘Common Heritage’ is an urgent response to the rush of deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals, exposing how reverberant layers of industrialisation, colonialism and territorial claim have affected the way we relate to our environment. Highlighting the fantasies we construct and investigating the relationship between exploration and exploitation, the film draws into focus how these romanticised stages are in fact borders of conquest, annexed for geopolitical territory appropriation and mineral resources.

The Commons documents a series of protests centered around the Silent Sam Confederate statue in North Carolina.

The Commodores sing Aunt Rhoda, Polly Wolly Doodle, Sweet Genevieve, Loakie's Boat and I've Been Working on the Railroad. The words of the last four songs appear on screen for audience sing-along.

A film about bugs having the time of their lives.

Oklahoma has a growing factory farming problem. The state leads the nation in foreign-owned agricultural land, as well as farm bankruptcies. The death of the small family farm is a theme that lingers throughout Oklahoma. Big animal agriculture is taking over the state, destroying the land, and making life for animals hell on earth. The citizens, the environment, and the animals in Oklahoma have a common enemy, factory farming.

Prompted by a discussion between painters sitting at lunch, this film analyzes seven common notions about races, heredity and group differences in the light of known scientific evidence, and proves them all wrong. Since it's situated on a college campus, the discussion benefits by the availability of modern audiovisual aids (an overhead projector) and attempts to delve under the surface of stereotype.

Praewa is a high school girl who has to take on the role of a mob leader, who comes out against the demolition of the Phu Khieo Democracy Monument. She and her friends have to deal with many changes. Praewa has to confront her own fears as well

Cheraton Love is a liberal, and her father-in-law Jim White is conservative. Cheraton invited Jim for a conversation using the StoryCorps app at his home in Silver Valley, North Carolina.

Addicted and on the street, Richard's getting straight and going home. But despite his good intentions, the path leads him through a minefield of his past.

Victor seems to have it all together - good looks, his own marketing company, and life in L.A. But in reality, he's broke, living out of his van, $93,000 in debt and still looking for the ever-elusive purpose of his life. Pop, an elderly friend from the past, offers Victor his only choice - to come back home. Through the story's inspiring ending of reconciled relationships and realized dreams, we are reminded that no life is "common" - and that everyone has a God-given purpose.

Recording a performative action where Judith Westerveld grew up in South Africa, the film captures a first practice session in the Khoe language Khoekhoegowab. Words and phrases commonly used in conversation linger in the landscape, her voice strained by exertion and the difficulty of pronouncing words unknown. (LIMA)

As its nuclear missile silos get blown-up, North Dakota scratches its head and wonders what’s next.

Twenty Five people are convicted of murder and fourteen of them are sentenced to hang, one lawyer is assassinated and the other chooses exile in this dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marks South Africa's transition from the apartheid era to a new South Africa. Told through the perspectives of defense lawyer, Andrea Durbach, The Independent journalist, John Carlin, and the accused themselves, the story unfolds to reveal a landmark victory in legal history's biggest case on extenuation. A timeless and inspirational story about the fight for justice in a country where injustice was enshrined in law.

Russian Paval Pavlovitch is married to an American woman when a decree is handed down that nationalizes women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five as common property of the state for the use of its citizens. Passports are refused for Pavlovitch's family. His old servant takes out a certificate claiming Pavlovitch's wife Anna, and the son of the village priest claims Pavlovitch's daughter. Matters appear bleak for the Pavlovitch family, but a troop of American cavalry arrives and battles the Russian mob in the streets of Saratov.

A document of urban development patterns, this one focusing on the redevelopment of the North Branch Industrial Corridor into the eventual Lincoln Yards mixed-use development project. The momentary qualities of each stage of development are captured in each film of this larger project: visual forms of the built environment in various states of decay and construction, the everyday theatrics of people moving about the streets and sidewalks, and the resulting sounds of all of this motion and change.

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that later proved to be misconceptions. The mistakes are illustrated with documentary, before and after photographs, diagrams, and video footage, and are prefaced with a clip from a children's educational film on how to prevent accidents.

Explore the notorious Aylesbury Estate, concrete monument to the history and legacy of social housing in the UK, and home to a community affected by forces beyond their control.

If I'd come with you that night, would you still be there? An explosion. Protests get out of control. A boy disappears beneath the city's streets. When he closes his eyes, everything starts all over again. Caught between resistance and resignation. An immersion into a head in disorder.

In a world where a single chameleon has no natural enemies, this one of a kind creature is destined to hunt for prey.