documentary films

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documentary films

Valor in the Pacific

Pearl Harbor
Looks at the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces in 1941.

African art, women, history

the Luba people of Central Africa
Presents an investigation of Luba art and explores the relationship between women, art, and history in Central Africa.

The human experience

Follows a group of young men as they travel the world to explore what it means to be a human being by visiting the homeless on the streets of New York City, the orphans and disabled children of Peru, and the abandoned lepers in the forests of Ghana, Africa.

Damnation

Looks at the influence of dams on the environment and the changing attitude of Americans towards dams.

Apocalypse

World War II
An in-depth look at World War II as revealed through the experiences of those who lived through it and archival footage.

Defiant requiem

Describes how the Czech opera-choral conducter Raphael Scha?chtter taught Verdi's "Requiem" to 150 fellow prisoners in Theresienstadt and chronicles conductor Murry Sidlin's journey to bring "Requiem" back to Terezi?n six decades later.

How Sherlock changed the world

Looks at how the popularity of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes influenced the use of forensic science in criminal investigation.

Pablo Picasso

Introduces the life and art of twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso through a retrospective of the paintings, sculptures, prints, and ceramics he created at different periods of his long career.

Jimmy Carter

man from Plains
Presents a portrait of former President Jimmy Carter as he travels the nation on a publicity tour promoting his book, and features candid conversation with Carter on his foreign policies regarding the Middle East.

You are there

Discovery and mutiny
Mr. Christian seizes the bounty: April 28th, 1789. Captain William Bligh is in command of the H.M.S. Bounty sailing from England to the West Indies to deliver breadfruit trees. Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny as he and his fellow shipmates refuse to tolerate their Captain's brutality any longer. Christian forces Bligh and selected shipmates off the ship to suffer whatever fate may come their way.

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