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- This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birth in mid nineteenth century rural Pennsylvania to her death in 1926. Many myths are overturned and the program also features a little known trial when Annie Oakley had to sue The Hearst Newspaper chain all throughout the country for libel when they reported the activities of someone who was impersonating the famed sharpshooter and besmirching her reputation.
- The story of an Aboriginal Veteran who has discovered the woman next door is the child who's life he saved in Holland in WWII.
- Convention requires every Catholic family to name at least one of their daughters in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mary, Maryanne, Marion... BAPTISM is about how writer and filmmaker Marilyn Freeman could never get in synch with that name - Marilyn. In a telling so intimate it seems to come over a telephone as midnight, Freeman delivers her story in a one-of-a-kind family portrait. An unexpected visual mix accompanies her voice while a rotating cast of lip-synching Marilyn stand-ins enact the effort to conform. Funny, affecting, and original, BAPTISM is a video essay about mystical inheritances, a mother's secret, and family.
- Mortimer has died and it is time to read his Will. His wife, ex-wife and sister, long-time adversaries, are brought together for this momentous occasion. What they didn't expect was to join forces in a contest filled with absurd revelations and real life consequences. But rules are rules. d'Urn it!
- Desperate to save her family from the grips of the cartel, a young woman follows her father's footsteps into a dangerous world of organized crime.
- Narrated by Matt Damon, "Dispatches from the Gulf" is a one-hour documentary that investigates the environmental health of the Gulf of Mexico six years after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in April 2010. That's when the world's ninth largest body of water became a place where thousands of communities and millions of citizens were put in jeopardy by a single incident - the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Today, a global team of scientists is working together to protect and restore one of our planet's most valuable natural resources. Their ultimate goal is to learn how to cope with the challenges of future oil spills.
- George Wisher, dude motorman, acquires the new dance craze, the Charley horse trot. Even the traffic cop on duty at the corner starts dancing and the chief happens along and gets in step. George doffs his dude clothes and gets into his motorman's uniform. The street railway company is threatened with bankruptcy until the ingenious George hits on trailers for the street cars on which passengers may dance. This makes a combination of the bus and trolley lines possible and profitable for the pretty girl's father.
- Tatiana a 10-year-old girl from Latin America has always dreamed to become an Astronaut and is also directly impacted by involuntary migration. Tati is convinced by her father that migration is the answer to accomplish her dream. She is not given any choice but to be optimistic and believe that migrating to the U.S. will make her dream come true. The story is told through Tati's memories of this moment.
- 201454mNot Rated6.7 (10)Featuring narrator Matt Damon, "Extreme Realities" investigates one of the most critical issues of our time: the link between severe weather events, climate change, and threats to our national security. Emmy-award winning filmmakers Marilyn and Hal Weiner consult with experts to find out what is happening to our weather. Just pick up any newspaper or watch any television news report and it becomes evident that unprecedented extreme weather events such as severe drought and heat waves, more intense hurricanes, increased tornado and wildfire activity, and crippling blizzards are leaving a trail of death and destruction throughout the world. In the wake of these disasters, we ask ourselves this fundamental question... Are these merely weather events that happen once in a hundred years - or are they early warning signals of a new reality - a new normal - a tipping point pushing our planet towards an environmental cliff? Appearing in the film are: Jim Yong Kim (World Bank), Tom Friedman (NY Times), Lester Brown (EPI), Phil Radford (Greenpeace), and other other scholars and scientists.
- GONE: The Mystery of the DON Disaster explores the strange disappearance in 1941 of the pleasure craft DON with 34 people on board.
- Thanks to DNA, this documentary establishes the identity of Marilyn's biological father, thus revealing her new paternal family, 60 years after the icon's death.
- Bobby is told by a friend, in error, that a bald man will be attempting to serve him a subpoena at his wedding. When a kindly bald-headed man picks up Bobby's dropped marriage license and tries to offer it to him, Bobby runs and hides. His friends try to help Bobby by tying up several bald-headed wedding guests, thinking they may be process-servers.
- Web series explores what it would look like to watch a romantic comedy through the eyes of the best friend character rather than the ingenue.
- In this tender coming-of-age story, a young boy from a broken home learns the harsh realities of life after adopting an awkward greyhound and befriending a mysterious figure from his mother's past.
- Brooklyn painter Marie Roberts comes from a family long entrenched in Coney Island's Sideshow. Her family home once housed the famous freaks and oddities of the 1920's and 1930's where her uncle was the "talker" luring audiences in to see them. Marie paints beautiful banners for the current Sideshow.
- In the aftermath of a world-wide plague, three brothers confront the challenge of keeping their family intact. The eldest shoulders the responsibility of assuring the survival of the youngest by supplying him the necessities of life, while protecting the third brother from authorities who would threaten his life because of his experiments.
- King Edward VII of England and the President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières, envision tunnelling the English Channel; nevertheless, only a maiden voyage can determine whether this is a triumphant aspiration or an acrid nightmare.
- It's Christmas Eve and Santa's given Barney and The Backyard Gang a special job- to take Derek (the new kid in the neighborhood) to see if Santa knows his Address. After arriving in Barney's special sleigh, the kids frolic on the ice, pretend to be elves in Santa's workshop and learn from Mrs. Claus that "doing things for others is what Christmas is all about". NOTE: This video is now really officially permanently banned, due to Santa Claus really being mean at the end!
- On the full moon of Hope's first double digit birthday, she is gifted with knowledge of her mermaid heritage. Hope will further her mermaid education requirements by attending The School of Mermaidology and Neptunism, an enchanted school for merchildren. On the eve of Hope's 18th birthday, she must choose to reside with the merpeople or remain human for life.