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- Follow avant-garde photographer Greg Friedler as he embarks on an absurdly emotional 30-day roller-coaster ride to bring together 173 naked human beings of every shape, size, and walk of life as they bare all to Friedler's lens and eventually the world as he sets out to shoot the fourth and final book in his critically acclaimed "Naked" series in Las Vegas. AMERICA STRIPPED, David Palmer's acclaimed documentary, is a no holds barred behind the curtain exploration which follows Friedler's own personal search into the underbelly of Vegas to capture its wide array and at times bizarre denizens who when stripped of clothing and society's judgments in front of his lens discover an even playing field of beauty, humanity and ultimately self love. This film contains nudity.
- Idaho, the Movie is a one-hour television documentary featuring the well known and the hidden treasures of Idaho. An elemental theme carries viewers on a tour of the state's mountains, rivers, deserts, landscapes, lakes and more. Think of it as Idaho's own "Planet Earth" style program. From the Sawtooths to the Tetons, from the big lakes of North Idaho to the deserts of the South-West, from unique landscapes like Craters of the Moon and Thousand Springs to Mesa and Shoshone Falls, to the rivers large and small - Idaho the Movie shares them all.
- An inside look at the 1995 Oklahoma bombing of a federal building. The documentary analyzes and exposes the origins and the full context behind the tragic event, proving that it wasn't conceived in the days prior to its realization but it was mostly idealized several years earlier and with other people and groups involved, way before McVeigh and Nichols came into the spot with their deadly plan execution.
- The Second Siege of Malta is an unprecedented documentary that relates the true and horrifying story of the small Mediterranean island of Malta during the Nazi onslaught.
- A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A larger assortment was published as a book by Random House last September. The film drew upon the submissions by soldiers for the book. It's a remarkable portrait of troops at war - the complexities, doubts, and fears - written with honesty. The 81-minute version of the film (which will be in theatres) includes 11 pieces of writing, with different visual strategies, along with interviews with the writers, and with more established American writers who are also veterans. In the latter group are Tim O'Brien, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tobias Wolff, Joe Haldeman, James Salter, Anthony Swofford, Richard Currey, and Paul Fussell. The visual approaches range from poet Brian Turner reading directly to camera, to archival footage, to an animated "graphic novel," to a still photo sequence shot by photographer Antonin Kratochvil. It's rooted in a program by the NEA that created a series of writing workshops at military bases. After those workshops, the writers submitted pieces for consideration in the book, edited by Andy Carroll. From those writings were selected 11 for inclusion in the film. There is also a 53-minute version of this film which will be airing on PBS as part of the series "America at a Crossroads" in April, 2007. Both of these are different from the other film 'Operation Homecoming" from 2007, directed by Lawrence Bridges. That piece was produced by the NEA as a documentary about their writing workshops.
- In 1998 pinball was dying, thanks to a saturated market and shrinking player base. Williams, the world's largest pinball manufacturer, planned to abandon the game in favor of the more lucrative video slot machine business. 'The Future of Pinball' is a 60-minute documentary that tells the story of 'Pinball 2000,' a clever attempt at resuscitating pinball that failed just at the moment a lot of people thought it might succeed. A 'Soul of a New Machine' for the pinball world, 'The Future of Pinball' is a compendium of interviews with legends of the pinball industry, photos, and films of the best games the industry has produced. It's a story about personality and passion, of bold success dizzyingly followed by a stunning failure.
- The Story: Reinhard Krause, the German head of the Reuters Israeli photo bureau is up against a deadline and facing a moral dilemma. He's looking at a photo that shows the head of the female suicide bomber still perfectly in tact lying on the ground, severed cleanly from her body without a blemish on her face and with no blood to be seen. Does he decide to show this to the world or keep it hidden? "Every picture must tell a story" Reinhard says and it's clear what happened with this frame, but is the world ready for this kind of image? He needs to decide within minutes. Welcome to the everyday difficulties of depicting a story that keeps rolling on with new horrors. This film joins Reinhard during the last few weeks of his 4 year placement in Israel and unveils the people and the pressured process of a news agency producing the photos we see in papers around the world. Reinhard single-handedly revolutionised how photos are taken and reported upon in Israel and is now working with a well-oiled team made up of both Palestinians and Israelis, many of whom still have never met, as freedom of movement is restricted for everyone. Both sides of the war report to the same person. Reinhard's team reports on atrocities most days and each of them has found different ways to cope with the stress of what they are witnessing. Gil, an Israeli photographer breaks down on camera after covering an emotional funeral saying that sometimes he feels like an animal chasing after the shots. Ahmed, a Palestinian who was nearly killed when on the job knows that it's his duty to show the world what is really going on in Gaza and lives and breathes his job. Nir, a young talented photographer in Tel Aviv has learnt to separate the day job and his leisure time and blocks off what he doesn't want to think about. Abed, a resident in the anarchic West Bank town of Nablus has become a spokesman for local journalists even though he's had to endure 90 days of curfew before. All of them won't change their job for love nor money. This film gets behind the world's oldest news agency to show how the news is made and reported on, from the first ambulance text of an accident in Jerusalem to the front page of the papers the next morning. Few of us stop to think how our stories and pictures come to us. With unprecedented access Shooting under Fire shows us the full process, highlighting the staggeringly fast digital technology, the difficult morals that await even the toughest of snappers, and the extreme lives that people lead in a land in war.
- This is the story of the men and machines that endured the 1908 New York to Paris auto race.
- Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana, in South America: The Devil's Islands. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle, lay the lost remains of what had been for a hundred years the most storied convict prison in history. There, while most of the prisoners faded into oblivion, a few became legends. Some because they were innocent, as in the scandalous Dreyfus Affair, some because they somehow escaped the islands of nightmare, as did the "butterfly", Henry Charrière, immortalized by Steve McQueen in Papillon. Now 50 years after the prison doors slammed shut for the last time, we explore what's left of the Devil's Islands' unbelievably dark and oppressive realm. Follow Jean-Christophe Jeauffre and his crew as he reveals the secrets of another lost world. Witness up-close the disintegration of the stone and iron ruins in the grip of the implacable jungle. Legendary actor Christopher Lee 9Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings) tells an amazing journey into what was called the "Green Hell" and the history of forgotten souls who had found doom there.
- A documentary that traces the Elvis saga from his birth during the depths of the Depression, to his move to Memphis, to his formative high school years, through his early struggles to launch a music career and wraps up with his triumphant homecoming concert in 1956, on the same stage where he'd lost a talent contest eleven years earlier.
- The Restorers is a documentary film about warbird and vintage aircraft restorers and the planes they resurrect from the graves of history. Their works often haven't flown in over 60 years and are in the worst of conditions. These individuals are similar to classic car enthusiasts. Their obsession, however, is deeper and obscenely more expensive. Our story will examine the spectrum of restorers. From the everyday guy who is rebuilding a biplane in his garage to the corporation that specializes in warbird reconstruction, The Restorers will find out what makes them tick. Many antique aircraft perform at today's airshows and races worldwide. How did those aircraft get there? How did they survive all these years? What type of person does it take to sink sometimes millions of dollars and years of their life into a plane that may be just a footnote in history?
- An exclusive look inside the action-packed Gumball 3000 Super Car Rally.
- American Sailors takes you on board and behind the scenes as four great skippers prepare and race their boats in the longest and oldest freshwater race in the world. In 2008 the Chicago Yacht Club expanded the field to more than 400 boats for the historic 100th running of the magnificent race from Navy Pier in Chicago to beautiful Mackinac Island.
- The latest technology in US combat warfare. Land Warrior, a system of total integration of digital maps, real-time satellite, and surveillance images - all seen through a soldier's helmet-mounted display. Ride along in the Stryker vehicle, it has the firepower of a tank with enough on-board computer technology to make it a rolling command center. In the Future Warrior program, soldiers will be able to perform missions with superhuman strength, be more lethal and better protected through the use of advanced composite materials and bio-technologies. Intelligent ammunition and new weaponry that is changing the way wars are fought.
- In June of 2009, millions of Iranians went to the polls to select the country's next president. Within hours they realized that they had been a part of one of the largest voter frauds in Iran's modern history. This documentary covers the mayhem; repression that followed the elections,; produces further insight of the events told by Ali, a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
- A groundbreaking series about the lives of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, "Ordinary People" is among the most ambitious joint Israeli-Palestinian productions to date. Each episode follows a simple formula - the story is played out in one day and tracks three conflicting characters that come into contact with each other during the 24-hour period. The result is a fascinating, fresh and insightful look at the stories of the day.
- By 1999 the Tibetan Antelope - the Chiru - population here had plummeted to just 50,000 as poachers slaughtered them for their prized wool. A group of volunteers, The Wild Yak Patrol, took a stand, to save their beloved animal.
- Scrapping Aircraft Giants features the amazing process of dismantling and scrapping some of the largest airliners in the sky. Aviation recycling companies will strip a Boeing 747 down to an empty hull in less than 60 days and reduce what is left to a pile of rubble in less than a week! Watch the amazing process of Scrapping Aircraft Giants and hear the popping and crunching as these once proud planes are torn apart and learn where its reusable parts end up.
- Alongside the world's greatest athletes are the world's most zealous collectors, a group of self-proclaimed hunters who will stop at nothing to take home a prize from the games. Explore the lives of 5 people who are obsessive Olympic Pin Collectors as they approach their crowning moment at the Torino Olympic Games.
- An original documentary following the United States Skydiving Team and the quest for double gold at the World Championships of Formation Skydiving.
- Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods, explores the 3,000 year-old history of this divine substance through ritual and obsession. From Mayan kings who were buried with, to urban professionals who bathe in it, the film begins in ancient Mesoamerica and journeys throughout time to Europe's finest chocolate houses where chocolate is still revered as one of mankind's highest expressions of decadence and sensuality. This film features discoveries by several prominent Mayan archeologists that substantiate the sacred role of chocolate in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. It captures for the first time an ancient, secret method of processing cacao beans still used by women in rural Oaxaca. Additional archeological and anthropological revelations give the viewer a whole new perspective on chocolate.
- Today the Great Bazaars of Cairo, Istanbul, Marrakesh and Fez are struggling against an onslaught of economic and cultural changes that imperils their historic significance within the muslim world.
- "Venice: Tides of Change" reflects on the issues tearing apart their culture. The Venetians confront the possibility that they may lose their soul long before the city's buildings crumble into the Mediterranean.
- A sketch comedy group from Oklahoma City. The content has been kept at a PG rating and is suitable for late night on public television. The show is currently schedule to be aired on over ten stations. We have done are best to include a large variety of comedy from serious to slapstick.
- EMPIRES OF STEAM explores the largest and most exotic centers of steam railway activity left anywhere in the world. Brilliant cinematography documents this closing chapter of the world's last great steam railway empires and the colorful people who still populate these remote regions.
- The cop-impersonating team Swine Flu must face the music, and Real Housewives of Orange County's Gretchen Rossi puts her relationship to the ultimate test.
- You'll ride along as party animal Mathew Pritchard gets arrested and skateboard legend Tony Hawk is forced to take a pit-stop to the emergency room.
- We start things off by dropping you right into the heart of the insanity as the Gumball super-cars and characters line up in Santa Monica for the 3000 mile adventure to Miami Beach.
- You'll ride along with the sexy Fuel Girls as they get their Cadillac impounded, and daredevil Trigger Gumm takes a detour to attempt a world record motocross jump - on fire.
- Playboy Playmate Charis as she deals with an out-of-control hitch-hiker, Dennis Rodman as he drives the royal Sheikhs to the breaking point, and Olympic Snowboarder Danny Kass as manages to have fun through it all.