Michael Chin

Este documentário sobre o inventor do jornalismo gonzo Dr. Hunter S. Thompson aborda os principais marcos de sua vida: sua relação intensa com o He...

25 de set. de 2008

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part o...

19 de fev. de 1998

24 de abr. de 1982

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old...

07 de out. de 2022

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' an...

29 de jan. de 1996

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration,...

26 de mai. de 2004

San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to h...

09 de ago. de 1985

Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related series of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of...

09 de ago. de 1999

20 de jan. de 1981

Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" stands as one of the most influential and important films of all time; one that changed the movie industry in ways...

08 de out. de 2004

Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming Amer...

01 de jan. de 1993

Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring ...

01 de abr. de 2015

Documentário presta uma homenagem aos militares que morreram durante o conflito no Iraque, lendo suas cartas enviadas aos entes queridos.

11 de nov. de 2004

City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metro...

13 de jan. de 2003

The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.

06 de jan. de 1995

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...

01 de jun. de 1994

In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and wa...

12 de out. de 2008

With its four operas, seventeen-hour running time and months of rehearsal, Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is a daunting undertaking for any opera company. J...

22 de jan. de 1999

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniser...

24 de jun. de 1997

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, thr...

26 de jan. de 1994

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial...

01 de jan. de 2004

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against f...

18 de abr. de 2005

Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the Transconti...

27 de jan. de 2003

Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the I...

01 de jan. de 2002

The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic --- traumatizing Sou...

25 de jan. de 2009

A documentary about Yosemite National Park.

01 de jan. de 1989

The story of Native Americans seeking to reconnect with their spiritual roots while incarcerated.

12 de set. de 1983

Two thousand years ago, in the Roman province of Judea, Jesus was crucified by imperial troops. Thousands before him had suffered the same fate. ...

09 de abr. de 2003

A história de três pessoas na linha de frente da batalha contemporânea pela igualdade, em um país que se orgulha de ser exemplo de democracia racia...

17 de mai. de 2013

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that ...

01 de mar. de 2002

01 de jun. de 1988

A documentary about Forbidden City, a San Francisco Chinese-American nightclub open from the 1930s to the 1960s.

17 de nov. de 1989

MAKERS: Once And For All is a feature film presented by AOL that tells the story of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995 as a watersh...

20 de nov. de 2015

He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and ...

06 de fev. de 2006

Allen Fong portrays the strains of marriage through the eyes of a young couple.

29 de out. de 1986

A multi-racial group of college students in a weekend racial sensitivity workshop discuss affirmative action, self-segregation, internalized racism...

02 de out. de 1995

National Geographic's Explorer gives viewers special access to the issues of the day.

A 7-part series telling dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From the producers ...

In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by American policy makers, media and the public. This se...

Commanding shoguns and samurai warriors, exotic geisha and exquisite artisans—all were part of the Japanese “renaissance”; a period between the 16t...

The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement t...

In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry ...

A five-part series about the origins, history and impact of the computer, a machine that changed the world.