Spirit Of The Pl

THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH celebrates the human achievement of a city's continuing Renaissance. It is the heroic story of how Pittsburgh, once plagued by industrial pollution and urban blight, was transformed in just 40 years to what it is today. It is a story told by people who were intimately involved in its change - scientists, politicians, teachers, construction workers, business and community leaders. Unique archival footage dramatically portrays Pittsburgh's past; stunning photography captures the city today - from its hills, bridges and rivers to the medical, educational and artistic communities in its mosaic of neighborhoods. This is Pittsburgh, a place whose people take pride in their heritage and in their ever-changing home. THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH was commissioned by The Pittsburgh Foundation of Dollar Bank. Look for this remarkable film at its permanent home in the Renaissance Theatre of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

In the futuristic Utopian society of 1976, people, who have numbers instead of names, no longer have to work. They get tired of always playing, and revolt, eventually winning the right to work again.

In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

Documentary - The Spirit of Diana attempts to unearth the truth behind the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover through seances that are held in an attempt to contact the Princess's spirit. - Patrick Macnee

Shao Fang and her late husband, Sheng Pao, were invited to apprentice with Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1940s. Later, in Williams Town, West Virginia, this Chinese couple designed and built a house entirely by themselves. As a woman, as a Chinese, and as an artist, Shao Fang, now in her eighties, has led a highly unusual life. This film is a personal documentary of this indomitable soul and her spiritual house.

At her family's remote ancestral home, Kelly, her boyfriend, Choppy, and a group of their pals fight boredom by dabbling in a supernatural game called Spirit of the Glass, despite the warnings of a weary caretaker. But once unleashed, the terrifying forces they stir up will not be quieted.

This trio of programs gathers inspiration from animals, illustrating the wild kingdom's influence on the ways of humankind. In "Gift of the Whales," a Native American boy discovers the beauty of the ocean's creatures. In "Spirit of the Eagle," a young boy and his friends learn all about the United States' national symbol. In "Winter Wolf," a Native American girl consults a specialist to learn more about the animal living on her family's ranch.

A young girl discovers a forgotten world. The world of people who still fly as the air´s pioneers did, more than one hundred years ago. The world of ultralight´s airplanes, the last remnants of the real Spirit of Pioneers.

Isabel is a tragic story of a of a struggling prostitute searching for hope in the wake of a crashed economy in the seediest sections of Detroit.

A documentary film about traveling through the country of Finland, snowboarding and figuring out how to practice this sport in such difficult (flat) geographical conditions, practically without any mountains.

Using spray paint on a fence where Aboriginal mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was brutally murdered, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey paints a large-scale animation of a bluebird in flight.

The nationally recognized Choir of Clare College in Cambridge, England, delivers an inspiring program of Christian-themed music in this live concert filmed inside the school's picturesque Clare Chapel. Selections include Benjamin Britten's "Festival Te Deum" and "Rejoice in the Lamb," John Rutter's "Gloria," Leonard Bernstein's "Chichester Palms" and a medley of spirituals by Sir Michael Tippet.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the imagination of many painters, among them Sydney Long, was captured by a romantic, poetic approach to the Australian landscape. In his creation of an indigenous population of nymphs and satyrs for the bushland he so loved, this film reveals to us Long's efforts to find common ground between European allegorical traditions, the decorative qualities of Art Nouveau and the quest for an Australian identity. The film also examines in detail the various later versions and adaptations of the title work, which Long etched or painted during his years in England.

In a brief life filled with prodigious artistic achievements, Federico García Lorca’s greatest legacy may well be his complex and compelling personality. Filmed on location in Spain, this BBC Arena documentary profiles the immortalized poet/dramatist, capturing the potent essence of Spanish culture in the process. Extracts from his poems, plays, and letters demonstrate his duende—burning passion—for the arts, while the details of his life and violent death, as told by his biographer Ian Gibson, contemporaries Rafael Alberti and Luis Rosales, and others, present a thoughtful perspective on Spain’s revered literary icon.

A montage of clips from famous American films, showing the unique American spirit.

Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying friend Bill Cronshaw: a passage from the journal of Charles Lindbergh.

Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business. They have come to the hotel as all of them are going to sue David over his new book - "The Resort" which characters are obviously based on Jordan and the guests. A practical joker, David plays tricks on them until he is thrown from the high tower of the hotel where Susan Warrenfield, the manager and owner of the hotel sees the fall and then Jordan at the tower causing the police to arrest Jordan. While Perry and Della try to solve the main mystery, Paul tries to find out who is trying to scare Susan away from the hotel. Could it really be a ghost or a more earthy visitor?

A 4 year-old boy stands in awe of a 1,000 year-old Viking boat in a small Norwegian museum and finds within its silent grace an impressionistic sweep of picture and music revealing the rich spirit of Norway and its people. (This is the movie that was shown after the Maelstrom Ride in Epcot Center)

After the Japanese kidnap two Korean teenagers and take them to a comfort station to join other girls who are serving as sex slaves, only one of them survives. Decades later, the elderly woman tries to reunite with her friend's spirit.