The ABCs of Book Banning
Feb 16, 2024 | IMDB 6.3
27 min Watch NowDocumentary
In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made unavailable to millions of students. By no accident, the themes targeted are the usual scapegoats of the American Right—LGBTQ+ issues, Black History, and women’s empowerment—impeding the power of future generations to develop their own thoughts and opinions on critical social issues. By weaving together a lyrical montage of young readers and authors, THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING reveals the voices of the impacted parties, and inspires hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.
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Daybreak Express
Video Nasties: Draconian Days
Paparazzi
The Ghost of the Neolithic
Hakob Hovnatanyan
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
Princess Diana: The Mourning After
How to Rob a Bank
Wigstock: The Movie
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
ARTIFICIAL: Media Production in an Age of AI
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Drain the Titanic
La ruta de don Quijote
Hurricane on the Bayou
Wedding Night
I Am an Old Smoking, Moving Indian Movie Star
Affirmations
Toutânkhamon, le trésor redécouvert
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk
SIMILAR MOVIES
Daybreak Express
IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 1953
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.Video Nasties: Draconian Days
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 2014
The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.Paparazzi
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1964
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.The Ghost of the Neolithic
IMDB 6.8 | May , 2021
In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch pass, released a mysterious object: a piece of a Neolithic quiver.Hakob Hovnatanyan
IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 1967
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 1968
On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been killed in Bolivia only two weeks previously, and, for many, it was the transition from simply marching against the war, to taking direct action to try to stop the 'American war machine.' Norman Mailer wrote about the events in Armies of the Night. French filmmaker Chris Marker, leading a team of filmmakers, was also there.Princess Diana: The Mourning After
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1998
In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's grief", tries to uncover the few voices of sanity that cut against the grain of contrived hysteria. His findings suggested that the collective hordes of emotive Dianaphiles sobbing in the streets were not only encouraged but emulated by the media. In the aftermath of Diana's death a three-line whip was enforced on newspapers and on TV, selling the sainthood line wholesale. The suspicion was that journalists, like the public, greeted the death as a chance to wax emotional in print, as a change from the customary knowing cynicism, to wheel out all those portentous phrases they'd been saving up for the big occasion. Sadly, they just seemed to be showboating; the eulogies, laments and tear-soaked platitudes ringing risibly hollow.How to Rob a Bank
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 2024
In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.Wigstock: The Movie
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1987
The original documentary on the Wigstock festival, back in the day when it was a much smaller affair in Thompkins Square Park. A full day of peace, love, and wigs…When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
IMDB 8.2 | Mar , 2008
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.ARTIFICIAL: Media Production in an Age of AI
IMDB 10 | Oct , 2024
Exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence in an industry of imagination, “ARTIFICIAL: Media Production in an Age of AI” delves into how AI tools are currently revolutionizing various stages of media production and examines the balance between technological advancement and human creativity, attempting to spark conversation about the future of storytelling in an age of progress. It also addresses the possibility of government regulation and the broader ethical concerns implicit in the immense capabilities of AI technology. The documentary integrates extensive research, survey results, and insightful interviews with industry professionals.Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
IMDB 6.8 | Jan , 2021
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.Drain the Titanic
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 2015
Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the water was removed from RMS Titanic's final resting place.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.Hurricane on the Bayou
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 2006
The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katrina.Wedding Night
IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 2023
A journey into the wedding night, where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple gets to know each other for the first time.I Am an Old Smoking, Moving Indian Movie Star
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1969
A veiled Indian lady talks to the camera (silent). Her story is told in images.Affirmations
IMDB 5.6 | Jun , 1990
A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America.Toutânkhamon, le trésor redécouvert
IMDB 7.9 | Apr , 2019
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1970
Plotless and wordless, beautifully edited shots of young (often naked or semi-naked) people in various positions, illustrating different emotions, actions and situations, underlined by rock music.