Maiden
In a moving portrait of resilience, Alex Holmes chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Alex Holmes
Actors: Angela Heath, Frank Bough, Howard Gibbons, Jeni Mundy, Jo Gooding, John Chittenden, Marie-Claude Heys, Nancy Harris, Sally Hunter, Tracy Edwards
Shoot for the Contents
Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying, “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s film — whose title refers in part to a Chinese…
Becoming Bond
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Linotype: The Film
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Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing
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Garden Wild!
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We’re Livin’ on Dog Food
Rowland S. Howard, the Primitive Calculators, Ollie Olsen, Phillip Brophy and many others proffer their recollections and air their animosities in a tribute to the underground music scene of ’77-’81…
Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
A documentary look at the changing interpretations of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution – laws and court cases that have alternatively broadened and narrowed the amendment’s protection of…
The World Beyond Silence
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Shakespeare’s Globe: Henry IV, Part 2
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Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
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Borley Rectory
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Fiddlin’
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