A Journey

Robert Richter was the first American filmmaker allowed to film in Vietnam after the war and report how its people were trying to heal the country’s wounds. With countries engulfed in new wars, this remains an important document.

An extraordinary walk through the streets and the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum reproduced in computer graphics. The most beautiful views of the lost cities: the hidden places, their majestic monuments, the splendour of the ornaments.

This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, this film documents the struggle of 6 people who refused to accept inequality. Featured here, among others, are Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city's Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. These brave pioneers helped secure justice for all Canadians. Their stories deserve to be told.

The film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie.

Charts the explosive 'folie a deux' that occurred when serial killers Charles Ng & Leonard Lake joined forces. And examines the terrible impact their crimes had on the lives of many lives, as the most expensive trial in US history unfolds.

After his beloved fiancé was forcibly taken away, Esho, a school teacher, is falsely accused of committing a crime and gets thrown in an Iraqi prison. While in prison, he witnesses the unjust execution of three activists who become heroes in their martyrdom for defending the human rights of the indigenous Assyrian people in the Middle East. Upon his prison release, Esho vows to honor the martyrs' courage and sacrifice by journeying the world to share their stories. Ultimately, he gains international attention when he meets an American journalist, William Cooper, a representative of the United Nations Human Rights Organization.

Journey to Africville, Nova Scotia, where begins the origins of the Black community in Canada! This presentation features notable activist and North America's longest civil rights protester, Eddie Carvery, who shares his experience of turning his anger into action for 50 years.

A director returns to visit his friend and cinematographer on the front lines.

The epic journey of 7 mothers and their newborn calves from Florida to the Canadian Maritimes are followed in a deep dive into the lives of one of the most endangered whales on Earth, the North Atlantic right whale. With remarkable access, we experience the splendor and the plight of this great whale through the eyes of a closely-knit team of marine biologists, whale disentanglers, aerial survey teams, ocean advocates and indigenous leaders as they race against time to save the species from extinction.

Depiction of events leading up to Jesus' crucifixion and His post-resurrection appearance to two followers on the road to Emmaus.

Witness the colorful, blessed journey of adoption. Take part in an American couple's life changing moments during their month long stay in the country of Kazakhstan. Walk through the process...experience the realities and intimate emotions involved as they meet their daughter for the first time, marvel at the sights and sounds of this far off land and fall in love with beautiful children of the orphan house at Semi-Palatinsk. The film makers are the adopting couple in this film.

The Dominoes Movie is an audio-visual album of the sixties. Not the chronological 1960s, but the electric, turbulent decade of rock, revolution, and the Vietnam War. The Dominoes Movie focuses on a succession of thirteen evolutionary tableaus, conveying the director’s view that one thing leads to another, as in the domino effect where one change or event causes a similar one, which then causes an additional one, and so on in a linear sequence. A portrait of the Vietnam War decade without narration and presented entirely via news footage and a soundtrack featuring BB King, Marvin Gaye, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana, Neil Young, CSN&Y, Van Morrison, The Incredible String Band, Canned Heat and David Peel.

The adventurous life of a provincial playboy catapulted into the glories of the Dolce Vita. A portrait of the lesser-known Fernando Di Leo through the words of family, friends and actors: from his childhood and adolescence in Foggia to his arrival in Rome, from his cinematic successes to the solitude of his final years.

This unique documentary tells a fascinating and breathtaking story: as in a fairy tale, the snowy owls leave us a message from the changing Arctic. Snowy owls may have to alter their migration and breeding patterns due to changing conditions in the Arctic. Follow one owl's new journey.

For four years, Asgeir Helgestad, a Norwegian wildlife filmmaker, has followed a beautiful polar bear mother named Frost in her home on Svalbard, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean. Rising temperatures are causing dramatic changes in her ecosystem, leading to desperate struggles to find food for herself and her young cubs. Follow this tale of man and beast, hope and despair, and life and death in a land disappearing before their eyes.

Into the Cold retraces two men dramatic expedition to the North Pole one of the toughest and most magnificent environments in the world and also one that is rapidly vanishing. In two months, 400+ miles, and -50F temperatures, the film reveals a deeply personal journey by foot to the top of the world as never before seen on camera. At current rates of climate change, this centennial commemorative expedition in 2009 will not be possible in another 100 years.

In January of 2016, a dozen members of the Memphis transgender community began meeting for a weekly story circle facilitated by Elaine Blanchard. The program, based on the format of her award winning Prison Stories series, was a time for sharing, healing and enlightenment. Thanks to the generosity of The California Institute for the Contemporary Arts, filmmaker Shelby Fuller Elwood documented their journey. All people have a story to tell, and all people long to be heard, respected and valued for who they are, and what they have experienced in life.

Brothers, Sam and Phil team up with other humans, Yuri and Steve to help them collect items called Moon Shards hidden around the depths of the galaxy, to help the brothers return to Earth to find their parents. While on their journey, they will discover secrets of a long-winded past that lied within the stars...