First Run/Icarus Films.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic "A People's History of the United States." Features archival materials, interviews with Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker.
Documentary on historian and activist Howard Zinn.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2003, 1995
Description
The goal was clear: defeat the Nazis who were entrenched high in the snowy mountains of Italy. Drawing together an elite group of champion skiers, mountain climbers and European mountaineers, the U.S. Army created the 10th Mountain Division, America's only mountain and winter warfare fighting unit. From the intensive training atop the Colorado Rockies to the spectacular night climb of Italy's Riva Ridge-where the 10th scored their biggest victory...
Description
Through the works of biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel, the role of the sea as the "outer space" of his time is explored. Based almost entirely on 19th-century scientific illustrations, paintings, and photographs brought to life through innovative animation, Proteus explores the undersea world through a complex tapestry of biology, oceanography, scientific history, poetry and myth.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A series of informal interviews with Daniel and Philip Berrigan, John Hogan, Tom Lewis, and Marjorie and Tom Melville-- all members of the Catonsville Nine, a disparate band of resisters who broke the law on May 17, 1968 when they walked into Catonsville draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Includes archival footage.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic "A People's History of the United States." Features archival materials, interviews with Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker.
10) Eolomea
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"A mysterious message--'Eolomea'-- is received on Earth from a sector of space. Within three days, eight cargo ships disappear from the sector and an entire space station goes quiet. What is "Eolomea"-- and who on Earth knows about it?"-- Container. Filmed in East Germany in 1972.
14) Justiça: Justice
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Observations of the daily routine of the criminal justice system in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition to observing courtroom proceedings and life at a detention center, the film also reveals the personal lives of a judge, a public defender, and the families of the accused. Disc 1 contains the original film. Disc 2 contains several additional features including a filmed debate about the justice system in Brazil.
15) The take
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economics collapse, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. Explores how Argentina's 2001 economic collapse, where a prosperous middle-class economy was destroyed during 10 years of IMF policies, impacted the lives of ordinary workers. Follows 30 unemployed auto-parts workers, who stage a protest against their bosses and economic...
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Using film footage and composition notes left by the late Ogawa Shinsuke, Chinese director Peng Xiaolian shot additional film and completed the work, which colorfully yet elegantly depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red persimmon. The inhabitants of the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else,...
19) Fighter
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Documentary film that follows friends Jan Wiener and Arnošt Lustig on a trip to Europe in 1998. Holocaust survivors, Wiener and Lustig met in the United States, where both had fled from communist Czechoslovakia. The trip recreates the journey made by Wiener as he escaped from Nazi occupied Prague, through Slovenia and Italy, on his way to joining the British Royal Air Force before his return to Prague after World War II.