Ramps to Nowhere
Sep 01, 2018 | IMDB 0
65 min Watch NowDocumentary
A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s. It weaves together archival material with the filmmaker's personal narrative about living next to freeways, and features interviews with participants from the freeway revolt.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Land Without Bread
Megacities
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
All the Way Home
Beauty Exists Within Our City
Bad Axe
MxPx - Both Ends Burning
The Blues: Another Story of France
Samba de Santo: Resistência Afro-Baiana
Darwin's Nightmare
Ladrillos capitales
Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
Concerning Violence
Berlin Babylon
Dancing with Le Pen
The Good Terrorist
Black Power Salute
The Police Tapes
July '64
The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market
SIMILAR MOVIES
Land Without Bread
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1933
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)Megacities
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 1998
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2007
During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh looks at an irreparable tragedy that is less visible, yet no less pervasive: the spiritual death that results when young women are forced into prostitution. Angry and impassioned, PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS presents the searing stories of poor Asian women whose lives were violated and their destinies destroyed when their bodies were turned into items of sexual commerce.All the Way Home
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1957
A white family has just put their house on the market and are soon showing it to an interested black family. The neighbors begin to gossip and soon the white family becomes the target of harassment and threats by bigoted residents in the community, who do not want a black family in the neighborhood.Beauty Exists Within Our City
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2024
A proof by example of the existence of beauty within Seattle.Bad Axe
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 2022
A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.MxPx - Both Ends Burning
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2011
"Both Ends Burning" is a film that captures MxPx at a crossroads in their seasoned career. Directed by Bryan Buchelt, this documentary not only follows the band's struggles in the face of the new touring climate, it also looks at the legacy and impact that Mike, Tom, and Yuri have had on the music industry, fellow bands, and their fans. This is one of the first true looks into the life of the notoriously private working class band on the road and at home.The Blues: Another Story of France
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2016
This documentary charts 20 years of the French national soccer team, Les Bleus, whose ups and downs have mirrored those of French society.Samba de Santo: Resistência Afro-Baiana
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2020
Three carnival blocks, born in candomblé terreiros in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through work, centenary groups, the film explores black culture, its dances, its fabrics and its ancestry.Darwin's Nightmare
IMDB 6.8 | Jan , 2005
Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of many native species. Its meat is exported everywhere in exchange for weapons, creating a globalized evil alliance on the lake shores. An infernal nightmare in the real world that wipes out Darwin's Theory of Evolution.Ladrillos capitales
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2019
Villa Rodrigo Bueno, a poor neighborhood located on some sough after lands in Buenos Aires, in their struggle for urbanization and their fight against gentrification.Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2022
In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit - not displace - residents, Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification - cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state's first community land trust - a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the "real estate capital of the world."Concerning Violence
IMDB 7 | Jan , 2014
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.Berlin Babylon
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2001
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Dancing with Le Pen
IMDB 9 | Jun , 2018
In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a party long associated with her controversial father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. See how three of her supporters faced similar obstacles in changing the narrative.The Good Terrorist
IMDB 8 | Aug , 2016
The story of anti-apartheid activist John Harris - who was hanged after a fatal bombing in Johannesburg in 1964 - told by those who knew him best and through newly discovered home movies.Black Power Salute
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2008
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their lives forever. This film is about Tommie Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Olympics.The Police Tapes
IMDB 7 | Jan , 1977
The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. The original ran ninety minutes and was produced for public television; a one-hour version later aired on ABC. Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in the 44th Precinct of the South Bronx, which had the highest crime rate in New York City at that time. They produced about 40 hours of videotape that they edited into a 90-minute documentary.July '64
IMDB 7 | Jul , 2004
A historic three-day race riot erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-sized city of Rochester, New York. On the night of July 24, 1964, frustration and resentment brought on by institutional racism, overcrowding, lack of job opportunity and police dog attacks exploded in racial violence that brought Rochester to its knees. Combines historic archival footage, news reports, and interviews with witnesses and participants to dig deeply into the causes and effects of the historic disturbance.The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2001
At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos and dozens of Ladino phrases, this slice of Northwest history captures their story as they arrived in Seattle and found work at the Pike Place Market.