2014

Jimmy's Hall

6.7/188

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

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Jimmy's Hall

1945

Stairway to Light

5.8/5

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatm...

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Stairway to Light

1945

People on Paper

6/1

Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included dime...

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People on Paper

2015

Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas

6/1

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very critical and la...

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Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas

1941

Of Pups and Puzzles

5.5/4

This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help design aptitude tests for men applying for work.

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Of Pups and Puzzles

1946

Magic on a Stick

6/1

This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

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Magic on a Stick

1942

We Do It Because

0/0

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

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We Do It Because

1962

Harakiri

8.389/951

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a plac...

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Harakiri

1995

Bandit Queen

6.558/52

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an...

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Bandit Queen

1938

The Face Behind the Mask

5.4/5

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identifi...

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The Face Behind the Mask

2018

Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

7/1

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he d...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

2015

Laissez-faire

10/1

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments...

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Laissez-faire

2009

Invictus

7.191/4023

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his...

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Invictus

1939

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

0/0

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets...

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Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

2021

sin título

0/0

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be pr...

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sin título

1997

Old Man

6.357/7

A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives th...

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Old Man

2000

Blackboards

6.641/39

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the...

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Blackboards

1940

Utopia of Death

0/0

This short film focuses on the mysterious and legendary Seri Indians who live in a utopian colony off the west coast of Mexico.

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Utopia of Death

1940

A Way in the Wilderness

0/0

This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pel...

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A Way in the Wilderness

2015

Love & Mercy

7.1/651

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the s...

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Love & Mercy