Showing posts with label Documentaries VIII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentaries VIII. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Circus School
CIRCUS SCHOOL
by Jing Guo and Dingding Ke
Take a rare look into one of China's most treasured commodities—acrobatics. Following students as they prepare for a national competition, CIRCUS SCHOOL reveals the rigorous physical training they must endure. Through exhaustion, injury and broken bones, the students will let nothing stop their seamless and precise performances in order to be the best.
Co-production of Jing Guo, Dingding Ke and ITVS International
Friday, January 15, 2010
Psychology: Guys And Dolls
For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For others, it’s almost impossible.
10 years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each is tailored made to suit every taste.
There are now 3,000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and compaionship that real women cannot…
Each doll costs around 4,000 pounds. Of those able to afford it, the dolls are worth every penny.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Libya documentary
In 2005, Tyler Brûlé hosted the TV media magazine The Desk on BBC Four. In 2006, he co-produced Counter Culture, a documentary series about cultural aspects of shopping, on the same channel.
This Documentary about Libya is one of the episodes made by the candian jouranlist.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Northern Lights
The Northern Lights
Alan Booth, 1992
Runtime: 47 min 40 s
This short documentary examines the phenomenon of the northern lights, aka the aurora borealis. Though scientists have advanced many theories in an attempt to explain it, mysteries still linger.
Experience a visual panorama of animated legends and international space launches as indigenous people and scientists offer their perceptions of the wondrous northern lights.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Beautiful One Day
Its one of the worlds great natural wonders. But in the last 30 years, pollution has caused the Great Barrier Reef, and the life it supports, to slowly die.
Sitting on valuable oil reserves it's also become the target of the oil industry which is desperate for new drilling sites.
This is a beautifully produced investigative film highlighting the urgent need to guard The Great Barrier Reef from the corporate vultures.
A Time For Burning
Directors: Barbara Connell and Bill Jersey
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 58 min
A 1966 Academy Award nominated documentary film which explores the attempts of the minister of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white congregation to reach out to "negro" Lutherans in the city's north side.
The film was directed by San Francisco filmmaker William C. Jersey and was nominated as Best Documentary Feature in the 1968 Academy Awards. On 2005, "A Time for Burning" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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