1. Attica in Motion
A four minute audio-visual journey of Athens Greece that has been time/hyper lapsed.
2. The Letter League
A shirt film that tells the story of queer artist Heather Spooner and the adult pen pal program she created during the 2020 pandemic, featuring the poignant and humorous stories of connection and humanity that came from it.
3. I Married a Munchkin
Chesterton, Indiana's annual WIZARD OF OZ parade provides the backdrop for I MARRIED A MUNCHKIN, Tom Palazzolo's study of the life and career of Mary Ellen St. Aubin. Self-described as "normal, but little," Mary Ellen details her early start in show business as a performer in an all-dwarf vaudeville act, her brief appearance in 1946's THREE WISE FOOLS, her 1948 marriage to former Munchkin Parnell St. Aubin and their subsequent retirement from entertainment to run a bar in the South Side of Chicago. Two other former Munchkins briefly appear among the day's revelry. Also included is a postscript featuring Mary Ellen briefly describing the original size of her role in THREE WISE FOOLS, which originally featured a line and an ill-fated "flying" effect. - Tom Fritsche
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
4. Can't Close Your Eyes
Can’t Close Your Eyes is a video series that Ethan Hib has created to show off both local and international punk/hardcore acts. Each episode features performance clips, interviews with bands, artists, and/or other people involved in the scene.
5. Can't Close Your Eyes II
Can’t Close Your Eyes is a video series that Ethan Hib has created to show off both local and international punk/hardcore acts. Each episode features performance clips, interviews with bands, artists, and/or other people involved in the scene.
6. Shipibos Konibos: Hombres mono, Hombres peces (Shipibos Konibos: Hombres mono, Hombres peces)
Alejandrina show us her connection with fire, plants and animals. Meanwhile, she tell us the changes that massacres, terrorism and drug trafficking have provoked in her culture. Are the lumbermen or the miners going to end her cultural history?
7. Shark Land: Welcome to Cocos Island
“Entourage” star Adrian Grenier ventures to Cocos Island off the shore of Costa Rica to bring attention to the plight of endangered sharks who are being threatened by poachers and ocean pollution.
8. The Wrong Address
A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Lady with an Ermine”. The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski in Cracow where he presents his favourite painting and with the aid of video effects, he wryly invites us to compare “The Lady with an Ermine” with the better known “Mona Lisa”.
9. The Beaning
An experimental documentary exploring a sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman in 1920 and the subsequent rise of the Yankee dynasty.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
10. Tian Soepangat: Muslim Sailor
Tian Soepangat joins the U.S. Navy out of a commitment to helping others. As a Muslim, Tian is uncertain of his shipmates' attitudes toward his religion, and so he hides it. Eventually discovering he doesn't have to hide his faith, he is free to express pride in his heritage.
11. Point Blank Period: A City Girls Documentary
Uncensored documentary about rap duo City Girls and their rise to fame.
12. Double Solitaire
The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and pinball. Placed in the Amache internment camp as children during World War II, they don't think the experience affected them that much. But in the course of navigating the maze of her father's and uncle's pursuits while simultaneously trying to inquire about their past, the filmmaker is able to find connections between their lives now and the history that was left behind.
13. Joe's Violin
A 91-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. ...Esperanza (...Esperanza)
An elderly woman narrates how she was tricked, robbed and forced to marry her captor at the age of 19 and how, many years later, she found her freedom.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Halloween Safety
This 11-minute, color film is designed to acquaint primary through intermediate students with Halloween safety. The film presents a little girl who has an unsafe costume. In a flashback, the changes that can be made to make her Halloween safer are detailed. These include reflective tape, removing pointed objects, a clearer field of vision, and others. Suggestions also include waiting to sample treats until they have been checked, observing reasonable hours, traveling with groups, observing pedestrian rules, trick-or-treating at familiar homes only, checking treats for inbedded objects, and safe tricks.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. The Haunted Mouth
In a haunted house, the invisible spirit of plaque - which evidently has the ability to possess rocking chairs - warns children against the dangers of not brushing and flossing.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
17. Homeland (Pátria)
The story of the volleyball semi-final game at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics between Brazil and Cuba. Players from both countries review the match and comment on the emotions and events that occurred.
18. The Colonel Comes to Japan
It seems highly unlikely that Colonel Sanders ever thought that he would be selling his Kentucky Fried Chicken to the Japanese, but Kentucky Fried Chicken, Japan, Inc. is doing just that, and doing it successfully. The company, headed by an American director and staffed by the Japanese, has raised the business of fast-food retailing to an art. Here West meets East as the Japanese are shown how to prepare the product and the Americans are introduced to the fine art of Japanese business. –cte.uw.edu
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
19. Waiting Tables
Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.
20. Bread
Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.