Documentary
My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The Tom family is notable as the mother, Susan, adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases. The film itself is notable for handling the sensitive subject matter in an unsentimental way that is more uplifting than one might expect.
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Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
Rats
Amédée
To My Birthmother...
Why Does A Good God Allow Bad Things?
Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story
My Home Is Burning
Making Dust
MUM Misunderstandings of Miscarriage
Lyra
Exhumados
Valley of the Rulers
30 Years and 15 Minutes
The Happiest Man on Earth
Dief!
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
Life to Afterlife: Death and Back
Dying to live
The Reaper
Anything Can Happen
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Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2008
Rats
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2016
Based on Robert Sullivan’s bestselling book, Morgan Spurlock and his team travel around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while delving into humans’ complicated relationship with the creepy creatures.Amédée
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2024
In 1952, Amédée took his own life by jumping into the Seine. No one knows the reason for this tragic act. His story comes to us in bits and pieces.To My Birthmother...
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2002
Why Does A Good God Allow Bad Things?
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2017
One of the most asked questions is why a loving God allowsdeath and suffering. The heart of the Creator is revealed as Gary Bates persuasively unfolds the often overlooked issue in today's evolution-creation culture wars - the vital 'big picture' of the Gospel. Many hearts and minds were changed after hearing Gary explain the Gospel message with a powerful, yet compassionate approach.Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 2016
Feature length documentary examining the troubled life and tragic death of college football standout and talented NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, whose scars of childhood abuse and abandonment haunted him throughout his career.My Home Is Burning
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2017
Impressions of a turbulent period in youth.Making Dust
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2023
Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of the building. The film is informed by Ultimology, and invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of sustainability in architecture.MUM Misunderstandings of Miscarriage
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2020
At age 31, after experiencing her second miscarriage, Tahyna MacManus was devastated, lost, angry and, despite those around her, felt terribly alone. She picked up a camera and started to record her story and in doing so found her tribe. Resilient, courageous women speaking of their sadness, their shame and their guilt while still holding onto hope. Tahyna discovers that 1 in 4 Australian women experience miscarriage so why aren’t we talking about it? In this highly intimate journey, Tahyna is on a mission to lift the lid on all that shame, provide some answers and make sure that women no longer walk this path alone. But first, she has to face her own fears.Lyra
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2022
An emotive, intimate film on the life and death of acclaimed young Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, whose murder by the New IRA in April 2019 sent shockwaves across the world. Directed by her close friend Alison Millar, the film seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words.Exhumados
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2022
Exposition of two different processes of forensic identification in exhumed bodies with features of violence.Valley of the Rulers
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2019
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.30 Years and 15 Minutes
IMDB 9.2 | Oct , 2020
Romania is on the last place in Europe in terms of highway kilometers, but on the first place in the number of deaths in road accidents. Entrepreneur Stefan Mandachi builds 1 meter of highway on his private property.The Happiest Man on Earth
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2019
A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has learned that he will die in 14 years’ time, unless he changes his way of living or attitude towards life. Joonas wants to make a film about the state of wellbeing of Finnish men, drawing from his own experiences and mirroring the society at large. The film is built around six stories. It starts with the context of school and proceeds through the contexts of military service, custody battle, burnout and substance abuse to end on the subject of premature death caused by health problems.Dief!
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1981
This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979). Diefenbaker's political career spanned 6 decades. When he died in 1979, his state funeral and final train trip west became more a celebration of life than a victory for death.Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
IMDB 0 | May , 2024
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying is a short meditation on love, grief, and imagination. The hand-drawn animated documentary was created through a collaboration between mother, elder and narrator Edith Almadi and filmmakers Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. This poetic piece celebrates life and the transformative ability of art to elevate and transcend us. Through vivid drawings and Edith’s simple yet magical words, the film explores our enduring bond with loved ones who have passed. In honouring her son’s life within the cosmos, Edith’s artworks embody colours, shapes and metaphors that remind us of the timeless power of love, gravity, and grace until our final breaths.Life to Afterlife: Death and Back
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2020
Craig McMahon sits down with four people that died and but came back to life or better known as NDE, Near Death Experience. Their stories will shock some and comfort others.Dying to live
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2023
The Reaper
IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 2013
Efrain, known as the Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. We will discover his deep relationship with death and his struggle to live.Anything Can Happen
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1995
A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. The boy's ideas of future and life are confronted with those of men at the end of their lives.