Greta Schiller
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recall Florida starts out as a road movie, following former Attorney General Janet Reno as she takes to the wheel of her red pick-up truck and cruises the backroads and byways of Florida in her recent bid for Governor. As Primary Day draws near, and the state Democratic Party strenuously opposes her candidacy, the documentary turns into a story on a fundamental right in crisis "" the right to vote and have that vote counted. Recall Florida takes the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Profiling legendary jazz trumpeter Tiny Davis and her partner of over 40 years, drummer-pianist Ruby Lucas, Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women weaves together rare jazz recordings, live performances, vintage photographs, and narrative poetry by Cheryl Clarke. Tiny's contribution to jazz history is documented in an informal, intimate style in which the 78-year-old demonstrates that her chops and humor are both quite intact. Produced and directed by Greta...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The documentary weaves together two strands: an examination of the problem posed by creationists who earn science education degrees only to advocate anti-scientific beliefs in the classroom; and a visually stunning raft trip down the Grand Canyon, led by Dr. Eugenie Scott, that debunks creationist explanations for its formation. These two strands expose the fallacies in the "debate," manufactured by anti-science forces, that creationism is a valid...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How did South Africa come to be the first country in the world to embody LGBT rights in their post-apartheid Constitution? It was in large part due to the unsung hero Cecil Williams, whose moving life story is told in the feature documentary, The Man Who Drove With Mandela. Featuring Corin Redgrave as Cecil Williams, in a tour de force performance In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theatre Director was arrested...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be In Love is a lyrical film portrait of the once famous, and now, largely forgotten jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan. Sullivan won fame in the 1930s with swing renditions of traditional songs like "Loch Lomond" and "Annie Laurie." By the late 1930s she became one of the foremost women in jazz. A black, female vocalist in America, she inspired young musicians like Ella Fitzgerald. Film footage, vintage photographs, reminiscences...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Woman of the Wolf is a sumptuous fairy tale based on a 1904 story by American poet/author Renee Vivien. Two opposing versions of the same narrative are told: one verbally, by Pierre Lenoir, the male narrator and guest at a party, and the other visually, through the behavior of a unnamed woman who meets him on a fantasy cargo boat. Featuring Alex Kingston of "ER" and "Upstairs/Downstairs" fame, as the woman of the wolf. Produced and directed by Greta...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Shot over a seven year period, The Marion Lake Story tells the compelling story of how a community on the east end of Long Island, N.Y. came together to clear their lake of the highly invasive phragmite reed. They educated themselves, raised money, hired laborers, and eventually got out to "weed the communal garden." Years later, a bio-diverse habitat for native birds, plants and rare turtles is returning; and the phragmite reed is in retreat. Human...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From the Piney Woods School in the Mississippi Delta to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, this toe-tapping music film tells the story of the swinging, multi-racial all-women jazz band of the 1940s. A 16 piece band with a strong brass section, heavy percussion, and a deep rhythmic sense, the Sweethearts were not just a novelty but featured many of the best female musicians of the day. Starring Anna Mae Winburn, Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Vi...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"I Live at Ground Zero" offers a different take on the 9/11 disaster through the eyes of a child. Jezebel Productions is offering this award-winning short film for free for a limited time. Please scroll down this page to the free screening window. On September 11, 2001, children living and going to school around the World Trade Center were eye-witnesses to the destruction and senseless loss of life. Isabella, the subject of our film, was nine years...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas) who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century. Utilizing groundbreaking research and newly discovered home movies, PARIS WAS A WOMAN re-creates the mood and flavor of this female artistic community in Paris during its most magical era. Winner of the Siegessäule...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
How did South Africa come to be the first country in the world to embody LGBT rights in their post-apartheid Constitution? It was in large part due to the unsung hero Cecil Williams, whose moving life story is told in the feature documentary, The Man Who Drove With Mandela. Featuring Corin Redgrave as Cecil Williams, in a tour de force performance In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theatre director was arrested...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's LGBT community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. Newly restored for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this documentary pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic story of survival, love, persecution, and resistance experienced by LGBT Americans...
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