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At the time this film was made, motion picture theaters were required to pay a 20% tax on gross ticket sales, and Congress was debating lowering this...

A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes...

From La Région Centrale (1971), Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape with the cityscape of Toronto.

A short documentary depicting a typical day in the life of a 1940s era flying stewardess.

As a young girl Victoria Arlen truly had the world ahead of her. But at the age of 11, she began to suffer from an illness that baffled her doctors...

When 18 children – nine from Palestine and nine from Israel – come together to form a kids soccer team, they come face-to-face with the...

Tamara is from the ocean and water runs in her veins. Born in a fishing village on the Mexican coast, she became a full-time scuba instructor. When...

Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love.

Nikki is no professional athlete. Still, she swims the English channel to raise money for a good cause.

A short experimental tone-poem documentary that explores three stages of the gentrification of Seattle.

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.

A rare "inside" view of a motorcycle club in Toronto, one of the network of such fraternal groups in the large centers across North America. The...

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci,...

Ricardo is an actor, driver, teacher, painter and a dancer at Sensible Soccers' shows. One day he forgets his signature dance move. Will he ever get...

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a...

A portrait and tribute to Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta.

A boy growing up in a port town in Morocco dreams of escaping into a different life than the one in store for him.