Facing scorching temperatures, 19-year-old Andy Payne, a small-town Cherokee boy, takes home the gold after winning a grueling 3,422-mile foot race designed to bring attention to the newly constructed Route 66 Highway. The race recounted in this Emmy-nominated film became one of the wildest promotion schemes in history, allowing Andy to win enough money to marry his girl and keep the family farm.

With insight and levity, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's Disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable-to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her mother's obsessiveness-gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother. Neither depressing nor medical, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER...

The result of McElwee turning his camera on his family and their neighbors, the film is a humorous and poignant look at odd moments in a genteel Southern town.

Central European immigrants brought polka music to America in the mid-19th century but the people in the O'odham Indian nations in Arizona's Sonoran desert have made the mixture of accordions, saxophones and percussion all their own...Taken from the word baila, which means dance in Spanish, Akimel and Tohono people have created waila, a form of music that embodies polka and Mexican tejano, cumbias and Norteno. And one family, the famous Joaquin Brothers,...

In this insightful short documentary, body acceptance activists Keena and Jessica speak candidly about growing up overweight, and the size discrimination they have faced. "While I have all the confidence in the world, I'm told every day that my body is revolting." Jessica turns heads in the street-for both her striking fashion, and larger than average body. Keena is the heaviest she has ever been-and the happiest. Brought together by social media,...

This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. " Congo:White King, Red Rubber, Black Death" describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to...

Complements our other program made in 2002 "Bali Traditions and Tourism". Focus area Geography and Tourism. Looks at benefits of tourism and more deeply at negative effects of tourism than the earlier program, especially inappropriate development, traffic, air,water and visual pollution, poor waste disposal practices. The rest of the program focuses on those working outside the tourism industry in villages and rice cultivation. Includes the cooperative,...

They are a model of socialism. Living as a collective and as equals in a family-based commune. They are the Hakka from the mountainous region of South East China. Their home is a fortress-like structure called the Tulou, where as many as five hundred family members share an ancient way of life. "We all live in the same Tulou and we have the same ancestors" says one 82 year old resident of one of the most beautiful of the Tulous called Tianluokeng...

At the end 2015 the United Nations, while celebrating their 70th anniversary, will announce the results of the Millennium Development Goals initiated in 2000, and the new agenda for the coming years. Foremost among the objectives was the eradication of poverty. Mozambique: a country which embodies the dilemmas and contradictions of the development policies implemented. Through this case study, we will carry out a critical examination of the concepts...

Year after year, Sanabhai brings his family to a seasonal saline desert in Gujarat India, where they harvest what they proudly proclaim to be the world's whitest salt, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Hardship and exploitation loom large in this film, but director Farida Pacha lets this speak for itself, instead fixing her gaze on the poetry and ritual of Sanabhai and his family's existence. Exquisite camerawork...