
A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.
1973-01-01
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0.0A poetic documentary which explores the relationship between a person and their past, the autistic experience and the teenage sense of self.
TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his escape to West Germany and a show trial was held after his arrest.
8.0Nikki is no professional athlete. Still, she swims the English channel to raise money for a good cause.
A short film about gender roles, Trans, and what it is like to have an identity that deviates from the status quo.
0.0Jasmin gazes in delight at the screen of the laptop she uses to make video calls with her father in faraway Somaliland. She asks him if there are hedgehogs there—an important question, because soon she and her brother and sisters will be living there. Her father once fled the war in his native Somaliland. In Finland, he found a second home, and his four children were born there. But he missed Somaliland, and was tired of the racism in Helsinki, so he decided to return with his family.
5.0The making of the next Aaron Aaron Byrne Movie takes a turn for the worst.
0.0The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future.
Retrospective featurette included with the 2014 Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
Retrospective interview with Joe Pantoliano included with the 2014 Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
7.8Follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.
John Deere allowed TM cameras inside their famous John Deere Harvester Works in East Moline, IL for a rare and fascinating look at how the best-selling combines in the world are made. We cover each step - from metal fabrication, welding, painting, assembly and final inspection - to John Deere Combines being loaded on trucks and trains for delivery all over the world.
"Our Cities Must Fight" is a civil defense film that was produced for the U.S. government to illustrate the importance of not abandoning urban centers during an atomic bombing. The film cautions that doing so would make it easier for the invading "enemy."
6.5In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love, ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world, floundering young women and future mothers, and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, the door opens to the abyss of today's America.
0.0A portrait of Turkish artists living and working in Berlin.
7.4In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.
0.0'Rider on the Storm' is a short documentary about a group of young people faced with the death of their friend, Alexandre Lezzi. The film explores how the community opened up to one another and united to cope with their tragic loss. While it portrays a dramatic event, it also illustrates a unique moment of hope, solidarity and humility that leads them to question what is truly important in their lives.
0.0Documentary on death with participation of philosophers, scientists and artists. Guest star, alexis karpouzos.
3.5A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage.
0.0This film introduces the Fogo Island/Newfoundland Project series which is an experiment in how film can be a catalyst for social change by serving as a direct means of communication. It gives some basic facts about Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and explains why it was chosen for the film project.
6.0A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.