Sentences with phrase «from powerful documentaries»

Ranging from powerful documentaries to historical dramas, this list should keep you busy and give you some inspiration.

Not exact matches

The first time I saw loss on tv was with Carter and Kem from e.r. many years later we lost our first little boy... at the same time Vanessa Gorman was documenting her pregnancy, she and her partner suffered a loss of their little girl Layla, she continued the documentary and it is very powerful.

Offering powerful drama and stunning cinematography, this documentary from the BBC illustrates the balancing acts that allow animals to survive in a challenging environment.

The last one, «Practice,» is a powerful 11 - minute documentary - style exploration of movement and sound, following the story of South African dancer Leroy Mokgatle with a soundtrack scored by Dev Hynes from Blood Orange.

The emotionally powerful Discovery Channel documentary about what happens, minute by minute, the 24 hours before the condemned of Death Row The 24 - hour clock is the convention of time keeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, indicated by the hours

I am glad you asked... [/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] The enthralling documentary «Manda Bala» starts connecting the dots with Jadar Barbalho, a powerful and corrupt politician, who embezzled millions from SUDAM, a government program designed to help the most poverty stricken areas of Brazil.

Of all the wrenching things I heard at the press conference at HBO headquarters following a screening of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's powerful documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, last but not least was Damian Echols's admission that when he emerged from nearly two decades on death row for a crime he didn't commit, the first movie he saw was... wait for it... the remake of Fright Night.

Earlier in the night, Oprah paid tribute to Recy Taylor and in case you'd like to read more about her, here's a piece from last month about a powerful documentary telling her harrowing story:

It's an extraordinary sequence, alternating documentary footage of orphans looking at the camera with Taji's playful and compassionate responses to them, and culminating with a powerful tracking shot that moves down an endless corridor away from her.

Set to enjoy its North American premiere at Doc NYC this coming Saturday, November 12, Letters From Baghdad is a documentary about Gertrude Bell, who became, arguably, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in the days after World...

That's the message from Chasing Coral, Netflix's powerful new documentary.

The DVD includes a «making of» documentary and commentary from Haynes, who quotes liberally from Sirk and Fassbinder, whose own rough remake of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, Fear Eats the Soul, was both powerful and radically different from this one.

The other documentary from Berlinale that I almost named as my favorite is For Ahkeem, a powerful story about a school in Missouri trying to help troubled African - American teens succeed.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

A harrowing, powerful documentary about soldiers suffering from PTSD that places emotions at the forefront.

Bodet filmed a documentary on him in 2007 (Le carré de la fortune, co-directed with Emmanuel Levaufre) and she and Bozon edited a collection of Delahaye's critical writings for Capricci in 2010, À la fortune du beau, a book which has ensured his work remains accessible to contemporary readers.11 Upon Delahaye's death, Ropert described him as a «powerful speaker with humble roots from another age, hardened by a life of brutal detours, passing from fury to kindness without warning, he was a character straight out of Victor Hugo.»

Poetic visuals, dramatic reenactments, sepia photographs, interviews, and expert narration enhance this powerful documentary that introduces the Ponca people, exiled from their Nebraska homeland in 1877, and Chief Standing Bear, who fought injustices in a high - profile federal - court trial.

Jerome Liebling, whose subtly powerful pictures and the lessons he drew from them influenced a generation of socially minded photographers and documentary filmmakers, died on Wednesday in Northampton, Mass..

Glasgow - based Irish artist Duncan Campbell (5/2 to win), born 1972, the oldest and perhaps the best known of the four, makes earnest documentary films from existing footage, focusing on powerful, controversial individuals such as Northern Irish Republican icon Bernadette Devlin and German economist Hans Tietmeyer.

Gambling on Extinction is a powerful documentary that explores the complexities of the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, from the African sources to Asian markets.