Browse Video: Documentary (93 items) 

Over the last several years New Orleans has seen many of its movie theatres close, the Joy Theatre on Canal Street is the latest. Learn how social changes, technology, and the distribution of films contributed to the rise and fall of New Orleans' movie theatres. Journey from the beginning of the Twentieth Century to the present and reminisce over the places New Orleanians went to the movies. No More Joy is a documentary that was finished in 2004 and combines hundreds of original photographs with interviews in a compelling story of how the film exhibition industry continues to go through changes in the New Orleans area. No doubt the results of hurricane Katrina will force more independently-owned theatres to close their doors. This movie may catalog the final curtain call of the neighborhood theatre in the greater New Orleans area. Visit the movie website at www.nomorejoy.com

Watch the TRAILER. AWARD WINNER at the 34th EKOTOPFILM festival 2007 and officially selected at the 9th international Gold Panda Award 2007 (China). One of today's biggest paradoxes, is that half of the world's population lives in city, yet many feel lonely and do not know their neighbors... IMAGINE 20 households: each has its own dwelling, but they all share some common rooms and activities. In that sense, cohousing makes urban life easier and more fun for both adults and children, while preserving their privacy. This documentary, based on interviews conducted in 14 cohousings shows that another city life is possible! SUBTITLES: Spanish and French About the AUTHOR: Matthieu Lietaert currently works at the European University Institute and Arcadia University. He has published several articles and a book about ecovillages and cohousings.

Watch the TRAILER. AWARD WINNER at the 34th EKOTOPFILM festival 2007 and officially selected at the 9th international Gold Panda Award 2007 (China). One of today's biggest paradoxes, is that half of the world's population lives in city, yet many do not know their neighbours... Imagine 20 households: each has its own dwelling, but they all share some common rooms and activities. In that sense, cohousing makes urban life easier and more fun for both adults and children, while preserving their privacy. This documentary, based on interviews in 14 cohousings shows that another city life is possible! SUBTITLES: Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish. (go to my storefront for covers) PAL version. About the AUTHOR: Matthieu Lietaert currently works as researcher at the European University Institute and as a lecturer at the Arcadia University. He has published a book and articles about cohousings in the EU and the USA.

Freeman-on-the-Land Robert-Arthur: Menard gives his second of three informative, entertaining and empowering seminars explaining the illusion and deception relied upon by the governments, courts and police and provides real life remedy.

22-year old Lha dpa' tshe ring married 19-year old Tshe ring mtsho in rural 'ber gtsang mo Tibetan Village, located in east central Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province, northwest China. Both have some primary school education. Both are farmers, cultivating wheat, barley, beans, potatoes and edible oil crops. The documentary includes activities the night prior to the formal wedding party; the groom and his companion's arrival at the bride's home; women from the bride's village attacking the groom and his companion and pulling their ears; the companion singing to thwart the women's attack; the bride and her companions’ arrival at the groom's home; the bride prostrating three times to the groom's home's door protective deity, family god, and the fire deity; gifts; wedding food; orations; singing; the bride's entourage's departure; evening celebration. (Rare insight into village Tibetan life. Tibetan soundtrack; English subtitles. 35 minutes. Color.)

34-year old Sgrolmamtsho married Don'grub at the age of 21 (in 1993) without experience of housework, fieldwork, and fetching wood. Filmed by her husband's younger brother, 'phagspadon'grub, in Amdo, the film concentrates on the daily life of Tibetan village women--fetching water, feeding livestock (swine, a cow, a mule), milking, cleaning the stables, cooking, household religious activity, weeding fields, transporting manure to fields, fetching wood for fuel--along with commentary by Sgrolmamtsho about her life and family. (Rare insight into Tibetan village women's lives. Tibetan soundtrack; English subtitles. 52 minutes. Color.)

"Hardly a week goes by without some new declaration of classical music's declining relevance in contemporary society. Mr. Taylor's film... might seem to be the latest verse of an extended eulogy." -Steve Smith, New York Times. This verite documentary follows three young composers (Judd Greenstein, David T Little, and Missy Mazzoli) and two music ensembles (NEWSPEAK and NOW Ensemble) as they set out to redefine what "new music" can be. The film's intimate and kinetic style captures the unique moment in these artists' lives when they are figuring out not only what they want their music to be, but also how and where they want to present it. By taking their performances out of traditional concert halls and into the clubs and bars of New York, they are making a bold bid to find new audiences and success on their own terms. In many ways, this documentary is the familiar story of the American band trying to 'make it', but it takes place against a musical backdrop unlike anything you've ever heard before.

Shadows of Niagara DVD Disk 1. Investigating Canada's Most Haunted Region - Niagara! Ghost Video, EVP, and Ghost Photos of Canada's Most Haunted. This is a companion DVD to Shadows of Niagara, the paperback. Includes FAQs of Ghosts and Hauntings and several investigations including The Blue Ghost Tunnel, Brockamour Manor and Butler's Burial Grounds.

Shadows of Niagara: Investigating Canada's Most Haunted Region DVD Disk 2. Investigating The Dollhouse Museum, Old Fort Erie, Maplehurst Mansion, and The Screaming Tunnel. Includes bonus EVP Reel. Real Ghost Investigations into haunted locations!

Gladys Low, Soren Tirfing and Marc & Ragni Pasturel visited Father D (John Duryea) and Eve in Oaxaca, Mexico, in January of 2006. Before the trip Gladys recorded birthday greetings for John from more than 50 people in the Palo Alto area. We showed John the greetings on his 88th birthday, and recorded his reactions. This DVD contains the original greetings with John's reaction (30m), a message back to his friends in California (10m), a long interview with John (1:18), and an interview from 1999 (24m). It also has the Memorial Service (46m). Also see John's web site: http://www.duryea.tirfing.com