Lessons of Darkness
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
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Genre: Documentary, TV Movie, War
Release: 1992
Sky Above and Mud Beneath
In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook’s Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of…
Land of Silence and Darkness
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the…
Spend It All
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Richard Pryor: Here and Now
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The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945
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Hells Angels Forever
What starts off as a squadron of American daredevil bombers in World War II, branded by society as renegades, turns into a revealing ride into the world of honor, violence,…
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
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The Decline of Western Civilization
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