Blackout: John Burris Speaks
Mar 24, 2015 | IMDB 0
2 min Watch NowDocumentary, Crime
American civil rights attorney John Burris lends his sonorous voice to "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" director Terence Nance’s imaginative and moving (and brilliantly edited) anti-police-brutality video in support of the non-violent Blackout Black Friday protest.
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Absolution, Parsin
The Pleasure in Pain
Some Natives of Churchill
Scoggie
A Daughter’s Memory
The Water Dwellers
La ruta de don Quijote
Man Belongs to the Earth
The Monster in Our Closet
Success
The Overture
Kirk Douglas
Fire! Fire! At Last Something's Going On
Hair
Der neue Expressdampfer Saint Louis
Lorena: Light-Footed Woman
The Symphony Murder Mystery
Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business
All That Perishes at the Edge of Land
Plane Days
SIMILAR MOVIES
Absolution, Parsin
IMDB 0 | May , 2022
The imagined perpetrator in a famously unsolved true-crime case, “Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm”, is confronted about his past by an unearthly Bison in this Stop-Motion animated short film.The Pleasure in Pain
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2022
A short film that follows key figures of the London kink scene on an exploration into BDSM and the notorious fetish event Klub Verboten. The film touches upon themes of psychology, trauma, LGBTQ+ rights and black representation.Some Natives of Churchill
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1973
This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead seaport for the shipment of Prairie grain. It also changed the way of life of the Native Indian and Inuit population.Scoggie
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1975
This short documentary profiles 27-year-old Scoggie Watson, a Cape Breton stalwart who clings to the things he cherishes most: the waters of Lake Bras d'Or, his hand-built sailboat, his freedom, and the friends who stayed in Cape Breton instead of leaving for the big cities.A Daughter’s Memory
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2019
Indonesia, 1965: hundreds and even thousands of people are arrested without warrant. Some did come back, the others lost without trace. Svet, one of the survivors of the Indonesian dark history recounts the memory she had of her father, whom she believes to be responsible for the 1965 tragedy.The Water Dwellers
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1963
This short documentary introduces us to a town where no one pays rent: Simoom Sound in central British Columbia, where loggers live on sturdy river craft. Every week there are visitors: the general storekeeper, the flying postman and most importantly, the forest ranger, who is ever alert to the threat of fire.La ruta de don Quijote
IMDB 5.2 | Jan , 1934
A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.Man Belongs to the Earth
IMDB 0 | May , 1974
Made for screening at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane Washington, USA, which had a Native-American environmental theme, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH depicts the history of air, water, and earth pollution, and how environmentalists are trying to solve these problems using various technologies.The Monster in Our Closet
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2022
A lawyer, reporter, and inventor team up to address one of the world’s largest pollutants that goes under the radar: plastic in clothing.Success
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1969
Piwowski’s most controversial documentary, a portrait of Czesław Niemen (1939-2004), an outstanding musician and vocalist, a year after the legendary song "Strange Is This World" was released.The Overture
IMDB 2 | Dec , 1965
Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.Kirk Douglas
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1966
The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.Fire! Fire! At Last Something's Going On
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1967
Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from a film studio to join a project proposed by the Germans: what do teenagers in your country do on Saturday at 5 pm? Images from the lives of teenagers from Kętrzyn make up a contrasting slice of free time in a small town. Firemen maneuvering to start a fire outside working hours, bodybuilders training, choir rehearsal, dancing in Hitler's former headquarters...Hair
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1972
A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.Der neue Expressdampfer Saint Louis
IMDB 0 | May , 1899
Short film about an express steamerLorena: Light-Footed Woman
IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 2019
A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities, wins ultramarathons seemingly out of nowhere despite running in sandals.The Symphony Murder Mystery
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1932
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business
IMDB 7 | Jan , 2020
At age 93, there's no stopping the legendary artist Betye Saar.All That Perishes at the Edge of Land
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2019
A ship berthed at Gadani and the ship-breakers coming from all over Pakistan to break it discover that they might have more in common than otherwise imagined, when they enter into a conversation.Plane Days
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2008
Old friends. Young friends. Lovers and loners. They all wait, hoping to see something they have never seen before. A Virgin? Thai? Singapore? Hopefully another one for the book. A flask of tea or bottle of wine to keep warm, and every day around the perimeter fence at Heathrow is a plane day.