Sentences with phrase «powerful documentary about»

He teamed up with PETA, an organization that he supports, to make and narrate a powerful documentary about factory farming titled «Glass Walls.»

This is a powerful documentary about the excessive construction of dams in the United States over the last 100 years, and how disruptive they have been to the environment, and to the life cycles of certain aquatic species (salmon, especially).

Directed and written by newcomer Morgan Knibbe, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning is an unusual and powerful documentary about the lives of immigrants stuck in Europe.

Hanna Polak's Something Better to Come is an incredibly powerful documentary about a small community living in the Svalka, Europe's largest landfill.

After an eclectic start to his career that included a powerful documentary about a death row inmate, an intense Harold Pinter adaptation, and a Sonny & Cher sketch movie, Friedkin became one of cinema's most striking voices, best known for his unmatched one - two - three hit of The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973) and Sorcerer (1977).

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

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.

[/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic][color = navy] «Darwin's Nightmare» is a powerful documentary about the thoroughly catastrophic ecosystem of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, a country on the edge of famine as it is.

A powerful documentary about the extraordinary team of doctors and activists — including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl — whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.

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I would love to have lunch with Lauren Parsekian Paul, one of the founders of Kind Campaign, a nonprofit that helps educate about the powerful belief in KINDness that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl - against - girl «crime» through documentary films and school based programs.

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

Documentary revealing the inner workings of the world's most powerful intelligence organization, with unprecedented access to America's spy network, all 12 living CIA directors and top agency operatives, who talk candidly about torture, secret prisons, drone warfare, alleged assassinations and the constant threat of attack, which begs the question: how far should America go to keep us safe?

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:

The quietly powerful documentary National Bird, directed by Sonia Kennebeck, reveals the story of three whistleblowers who speak about their...

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...

This may be a relatively straightforward documentary about a lengthy legal case, but it carries such a powerful emotional kick that it forces the audience to see the bigger picture.

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.

«March of the Penguins» of course was a nominated documentary, and so was the powerful «Murderball,» about full - contact quadriplegic wheelchair rugby.

The director of one of the year's best movies — nominated for 2 Critics Choice Documentary Awards — joins me on this edition of The LCJ Q&A to talk about making the powerful film.

In recent decades, she's become best - known for her essayistic, proudly digressive documentaries, of which Faces Places may be her last — although she said the same thing about the one before that, 2008's powerful self - portrait The Beaches of Agnès.

Sarah Griffin talks to Mark Mc Loughlin about his powerful documentary Blood Rising, which examines the phenomenon of femicide in the Mexican city of Juarez.

Also opening this weekend is Abramorama's documentary The Last Shaman about a young man struggling with depression who travels to the Amazon to explore the healing powers of the powerful drug Ayahuasca.

Experience the powerful Academy Award - nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson that people are still talking about.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

The best thing about the film is that it heralds the arrival of a young and powerful new female director, the formidable Ana Lily Amirpour (featured on our Best Of 2014: The 20 Breakthrough Directors Of The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her feature debut.

This spiritual transformation is the subject of The Hip Hop Project, a warts - and - all documentary which pulls no punches about the prospects of those stuck in poverty while simultaneously making a powerful statement about human potential.

«One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me «Superman» did not exist,» the educational reformer Geoffrey Canada recalls in the opening moments of «Waiting for «Superman,»» a powerful and alarming documentary about America's failing public school system.

- Publishers Weekly «The search for this killer feline serves as the narrative thrust for John Vaillant's fascinating exploration of the deteriorating relationship between humans and these menacing, now seriously threatened creatures... Whether read as an adventure story or as documentary about delicate ecosystems, The Tiger is a powerful book.

In this documentary, drug addicts talk openly about how they got to the streets and send a powerful message of caution to others about the dangers of drug abuse.»

The documentary is very powerful and makes you think twice about what you are doing when you're in the car or if you are a passenger in a vehicle what the driver is doing.

If you're interested in learning a powerful releasing technique, check out the new documentary movie about the emotional freedom technique (EFT) I use, Try it On Everything; I highly recommend it.