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2012

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Mothers and Daughters
Mothers and Daughters
Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role as patronization and envy, dependency and jealousy. This documentary allows prominent mother-daughter pairs to have their say, being surprisingly open about birth and puberty, growing up, sexuality and old age.
Mothers and Daughters 2012
Persistence of Vision
Persistence of Vision
It was to be the greatest animated film of all time. Not just an eye-opener, but a game-changer. Richard Williams demanded nothing less, investing nearly three decades into his movie masterpiece. From as early as 1964 he ploughed most of the profits right back into his pet project, a feature inspired by the Arabian Nights and provisionally known as Mullah Nasruddin. He assembled a team of inspired young artists—and brought in the best Hollywood craftsmen to teach them—and devised what would be the most elaborate, kaleidoscopic, mind-boggling visual sequences ever committed to celluloid. Years passed. Potential financiers came and went. Work continued. But it was only after Roger Rabbit that Williams had a studio budget to corroborate the munificence of his imagination.
Persistence of Vision 2012
Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony
Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony
Part road trip, part adventure story, FOLLOWING THE NINTH is an inspirational film about Beethoven's Choral Symphony, its majestic power to liberate us, to shield us against suffering, to provide hope and resilience during dark times. Filmed on five continents and in 12 countries, FOLLOWING THE NINTH is the story of four lives that have been transformed and repaired by the music, expressed most vividly in the prophecy of the Ode to Joy: “Alle Menschen werden Brüder”(All Men Will Be Brothers).
Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony 2012
Betty White: Champion for Animals
Betty White: Champion for Animals
Betty White travels around the world to national parks, zoos and aquariums; along the way, she shares personal stories of her own pets and gives viewers a look at the organizations that support animals.
Betty White: Champion for Animals 2012
She Male Snails
She Male Snails
Caught between two genders, the artist Eli Leven and Ester Martin Bergsmark touch and caress each other, while they bath together in clouds of steam. A persuasive voice-off describes the often hard and painful growing process, which led them to choose to be neither males nor females. But something else entirely. While memories of adolescences scarred by homophobia and discrimination are presented, the audience is also captivated by poetic evocations of bodies, of snowy woods, water, nature, and snails: the symbol of androgyny. This movie moves the audience profoundly. It is a hymn to sexual fluidity, which reveals the search for the true self, rendered through the use of contrasting, vivid, and often acid bright photography. Intended as a television portrait of the transgender artist Eli Leven, it is a psychedelic docu-fiction, a hybrid movie inspired by Derek Jarman's Sebastian.
She Male Snails 2012
TRANS
TRANS
An up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world through the memorable stories and the unusual lives of a remarkable cast of characters.
TRANS 2012
America's Alien Invasion: The Lost UFO Encounters
America's Alien Invasion: The Lost UFO Encounters
Most Americans have no idea that the White House was swarmed by UFOs not once but twice, once in 1952 and again in 1963. The government knows that UFOs are here. Explore this phenomenon that is destined to impact our very being because we are not alone. -
America's Alien Invasion: The Lost UFO Encounters 2012
Der Bernd
Der Bernd
Der Bernd 2012
People vs. the State of Illusion
People vs. the State of Illusion
A compelling docudrama that explores the science and power of perception and imagination through the most important trial you will ever witness.
People vs. the State of Illusion 2012
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes uses his 80th birthday concert to look into the man and his music.
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes 2012
Summer with Anton
Summer with Anton
12-year old Anton is spending his summer holidays at Kaskad military training camp, where he and 60 other Russian children are subjected to tough exercise regimens created by President Putin for the fight against Muslim Chechens.
Summer with Anton 2012
Give Us the Money
Give Us the Money
Can glitz and celebrity save the world? Thirty years ago, rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono set out on a journey to fight poverty in Africa. They tried to convince some of the wiliest and mightiest politicians on earth to change the world. Give us the Money tracks their journey through famines and palaces, and world-wide TV-audiences. But how successful have they really been? Did they manage to make the world a better place? Bosse Lindquist's film tracks the history of this idea. "A band of musicians set out to change the world" he says "and now the time has come to ask: What did they achieve, and is celebrity politics is the right way of combating world poverty?"'
Give Us the Money 2012
Explosion 1812
Explosion 1812
On April 27, 1813, American forces defeated the British at York (present-day Toronto) and captured the capital of Upper Canada - but not before suffering their own losses. History Television's Explosion 1812 looks at the Battle of York and unearths new evidence around this lesser-known event from the War of 1812 (IMDB)
Explosion 1812 2012
Sexwork & Me
Sexwork & Me
21st century legal prostitution through the frank stories of Amsterdam red-light district sex workers at a time when tighter regulation threatens their livelihood.
Sexwork & Me 2012
On The Edge Of A Floating City, We Sing
On The Edge Of A Floating City, We Sing
On The Edge Of A Floating City, We Sing 2012
Grateful Dead: All The Years Combine - The DVD Collection
Grateful Dead: All The Years Combine - The DVD Collection
Bonus Disc Performances Shoreline Ampitheatre • Mountain View, CA • October 2, 1987 14-1 China Cat Sunflower 14-2 I Know You Rider 14-3 Man Smart, Woman Smarter Sullivan Stadium • Foxboro, MA • July 2, 1989 14-4 Friend Of The Devil The World Ampitheatre • Tinley Park, IL • July 22, 1990 14-5 Hey Pockey Way Soldier Field • Chicago, IL • June 22, 1991 14-6 Shakedown Street 1992 Documentary Backstage Pass, Directed By Justin Kreutzmann 14-7 Backstage Pass New Interview With Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux 14-8 New Interview With Archivist David Lemieux
Grateful Dead: All The Years Combine - The DVD Collection 2012
Dare Remember
Dare Remember
"It's been 25 years and there is so little I remember. I can not remember the police investigation and I can not remember the trial. I have never talked to my parents about the rape, but it is always there anyway. " Dare Remember is an exceptionally brave documentary film that put words to what has been hushed. About meeting what you prefer to forget. A movie about moving forward.
Dare Remember 2012
Audrey Lamy - Dernières avant Vegas
Audrey Lamy - Dernières avant Vegas
Audrey Lamy, nominated for the Molières, lights up the stage with all her talent and her fantasy, linking unique and hilarious characters: a mother on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a nymphomaniac girlfriend found on Facebook or even a more than shooting star of the "Poop Academy"...
Audrey Lamy - Dernières avant Vegas 2012
Born in the USSR: 28 Up
Born in the USSR: 28 Up
Born in the USSR: 28 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 28.
Born in the USSR: 28 Up 2012
Tarbosaurus, The Mightiest Ever
Tarbosaurus, The Mightiest Ever
Tarbosaurus: The Mightiest Ever is a South Korean adventure drama film directed by Han Sang-Ho. A spiritual prequel to The Dino King, sharing various themes with the movie and also being directed by Han Sang-Ho, this film follows the life of a Tarbosaurus family made up of Patch, (the father of Speckles from The Dino King), his two siblings and their mother in prehistoric South Korea.
Tarbosaurus, The Mightiest Ever 2012
Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey
Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey
Polar Bears in Hudson Bay struggle in a green world. Up close and personal, originally shot all on native 3D.
Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey 2012
WWE: The Attitude Era
WWE: The Attitude Era
Bust out your Austin 3:16 shirt, heat up a delicious slice of pie and count down to Y2J all over again with The Attitude Era. Go back to the days when antiheroes ditched “saying their prayers and taking their vitamins” for opening up a can of whoop ass and laying the SmackDown!
WWE: The Attitude Era 2012
G-Dog
G-Dog
A look at the life and work of a gang reformer.
G-Dog 2012
Nowhere Home
Nowhere Home
In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. They should be returned to their country of origin when they turn 18. In Norway child welfare custody of their children without close caregivers. This does not apply to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children between 15 and 18 years.
Nowhere Home 2012
Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
Prime Video
Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
The true life story of Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972) is in fact much more eccentric than the most famous fictional role she ever played: Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth. Rutherford's version was the very first appearance of Miss Marple on the big screen and it was far removed though from the petite, upper middle-class lady in the detective novels.
Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford 2012
Il était une fois... « La Haine »
Il était une fois... « La Haine »
Il était une fois... « La Haine » 2012
Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved
Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved
As the 100th anniversary of Titanic's sinking approaches, a team of scientists, engineers, archaeologists and imaging experts have joined forces to answer one of the most haunting questions surrounding the legendary disaster: Just how did the "unsinkable" ship break apart and plunge into the icy waters of the North Atlantic? Written by History Channel
Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved 2012
Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort
Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort
Kutsher's Country Club is the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's has been family-owned and operated for over 100 years. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience-- and how it changed American pop culture in the comedy, sports and vacation industries-- this documentary captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes.
Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort 2012
Contra el tiempo
Contra el tiempo
The young actor Antonio Mora wants to meet veteran actors, possibly unfamiliar, to learn from their successes and failures, to understand the facet of the interpreter as a worker and as a media star. This seeks help from a journalist friend who will put you in touch with some players, especially in the era of gender co.
Contra el tiempo 2012
Flight of the Monarch Butterfly
Flight of the Monarch Butterfly
The life cycle and uniquely long annual migration of North America's monarch butterfly is examined in this nature documentary.
Flight of the Monarch Butterfly 2012
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'Pandrogyne' project.
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye 2012
Buffalo Girls
Buffalo Girls
Buffalo Girls tells the story of two 8-year-old-girls, Stam and Pet, both professional Muay Thai prizefighters. Set in small villages throughout rural Thailand, the film chronicles these young girls' emotional and sometimes heartbreaking journey as they fight in small underground arenas to win prize-money to help provide for their families. After many months of rigorous training and a long schedule of fights, Stam and Pet fight each other for the 20 Kilo championship belt of Thailand and a cash prize that will change the winner's life forever.
Buffalo Girls 2012
Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions Per Minute
Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions Per Minute
My mother used to wake me up with a vinyl record. It's the first thing I remember about life. Many years have passed but vinyl records have never abandoned me. And you? Have you ever listened to a vinyl record? With its unique sound and crackling that gives you butterflies. Have you ever plunged into the colours of the sleeves artwork? Have you smelled it? Music captures a unique taste, seductive. In "Vinylmania" the director guides us through the grooves of an object that has never lost its soul. He investigates what makes it so legendary in a world dominated by liquid music: Simple nostalgia? Possession? The search for an idenitity? A cry against the fast food music? The digital river that has no heart or soul, just ones and zeros...
Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions Per Minute 2012
One Direction: The Only Way Is Up
One Direction: The Only Way Is Up
Harry, Liam, Zayn, Niall & Louis have proven they're more than a manufactured boy band by becoming global superstars almost overnight. Presented by X Factor's Sinitta, this program unleashes all the highs of the band's turbo-charged fame. From five individual hopeful singers taking part in Simon Cowell's British X Factor. the boys of One Direction have defied the odds, and their critics, by becoming the hottest British boy band in the world. With A-List interviews from Piers Morgan, Zac Efron, Katherine Jenkins and some members of the cast of Glee and many others, we explore what makes these boys a chart topping success. Smashing worldwide charts with their debut No 1 single and album, One Direction have it all: great voices, charm and good looks. proving the only way is UP for One Direction.
One Direction: The Only Way Is Up 2012
Las sufragistas
Las sufragistas
Eufrosina Cruz was the first woman that became Congress President in Oaxaca. This is the story about women in politics in Mexico and their fight to reach their right to vote, their right to be in power. A journey that just started.
Las sufragistas 2012
En tatanes à Manhattan
En tatanes à Manhattan
Eleven years after the trauma of Sept. 11 , Antoine de Caunes, is going to take the pulse of New York and check if the metropolis is still the center of global creativity. He paces Manhattan but Brooklyn , Staten Island or Rockaway Beach , Queens , where he does not hesitate to wet the shirt for an introductory session to surf. This appointment with Liberty in New York unleashed led the Wall Street along the movement " Occupy Wall Street ", which celebrates its first anniversary . Then he goes to meet the kings of the night. His wanderings led him to meet a candidate for president , king of the absurd , organic cooks who cultivate their gardens in the city center or a naturalist in Central Park.
En tatanes à Manhattan 2012
Yellow Fever
Prime Video
Yellow Fever
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.
Yellow Fever 2012
Castro in Winter
Castro in Winter
After directing two documentaries on Fidel Castro in 2002 ("Comandante") and 2003 ("Looking for Fidel"), filmmaker Oliver Stone returned to interview Castro in 2009 for the first in-depth conversation since Castro had stepped down as president and recovered from colon surgery. In this new film, Castro is interviewed at home, surrounded by his family. The stimulating conversation is friendly and casual, as Castro offers his perspective on current leaders such as President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as controversial events such as the coup in Honduras, upheaval in Iran, and the collapse of the Soviet Union's effect on the Cuban economic model. Castro also reflects on some of the defining moments of his life during the last 50 years, including John F. Kennedy's assassination and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Castro in Winter 2012
Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard
Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard
Robert Ballard has been living and breathing the Titanic since he was part of the team that discovered it in 1985. In Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard, he revisits the iconic ship in an entirely different way—from the perspective of those who set sail on it some 100 years ago. Ballard travels to the shipyards of Northern Ireland to retrace the path of the doomed ship from its very incarnation. Throughout his journey, Ballard is driven by one personal question—will the Titanic survive another 100 years? As evidence mounts that the ship is under siege by natural forces, careless visitors, and even rogue salvage operators, the man who found it teams with the families of victims and survivors to protect the legacy of history’s most famous ship.
Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard 2012
Scenes of a Crime
Scenes of a Crime
Explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile murder trial in New York state. Police video-recordings reveal the complicated psychological dynamic between detectives and their suspect during the long interrogation. Detectives, prosecutors, witnesses, jurors and the suspect himself offer conflicting accounts of exactly what happened in this mysterious and disturbing true-crime documentary.
Scenes of a Crime 2012