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The College Kingdom

ilovedocumentaries — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:49:18 +0000

The College Kingdom is a documentary video featuring the end of the summer season in the college kingdom, and the winter is fast approaching and nobody wants to spend the cold months alone. It is during this time where most search for a mate.

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The voice of lle a Morphil

ilovedocumentaries — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:08:09 +0000

The voice of lle a Morphil is a documentary film that shows a more personal approach with emphasis on the uniqueness of a culture leads to better results. This approach is highlighted by a nocturnal concert of Baaba Maal.

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The KGB Connections

ilovedocumentaries — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:11:08 +0000

The KGB Connections is a disturbing and eye-opening documentary that reveals the true nature of KGB activities/Soviet Operations in North America during the 1970s and 80s.

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Three Came Home

ilovedocumentaries — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:51:15 +0000

Three Came Home is a documentary film based on the autobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith.

Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her British husband (Patric Knowles) are penned up in a prison camp along with several other subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Col. Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation, and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Suga helpless to intervene lest he incur the wrath of his own superiors.

It contains several unforgettable moments, including a comic interlude between the male and female prisoners that ends abruptly with a barrage of Japanese bullets, and the heartwrenching scene wherein Suga learns that his family has been killed in a bombing raid.

This film stars Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith.

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The Man with a Camera

ilovedocumentaries — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:59:49 +0000

The Man with a Camera is a documentary film by Soviet director Dziga Vertov. It is an experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor, Elizaveta Svilova (who was also his wife), and his cinematographer, Mikhail Kaufman (also his brother), that the true goal of cinema should be to present life as it is lived.

The filmmakers offer a day-in-the-life portrait of a city from dawn until dusk, though they actually shot their footage in several cities, including Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. After an opening statement, there are no words in the film (neither voice-over nor titles), just dazzling imagery, kinetically edited – as a celebration of the modern city with a marked emphasis on its buildings and machinery.

This experimental film is three in one: a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of that documentary and a depiction of an audience watching that documentary.

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The Fighting Lady

ilovedocumentaries — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:01:21 +0000

The Fighting Lady is a documentary video featuring a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier. The film provides viewers a litany of actual combat engagemts. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese fighters. Some of the photography comes from cameras set up in the cockpits of American planes, showing first hand what it’s like to be diving through enemy anti-aircraft fire. It culminates in a major confrontation with the Imperial Japanese Battle Fleet. In this massive operation, later dubbed the “Marianas Turkey Shoot,” American pilots downed almost four hundred Japanese Zeros, while incurring only twenty-two losses themselves.

The film is an Oscar Winner in 1945 for Best Documentary.

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The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler

ilovedocumentaries — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:34:46 +0000

The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler is a compilation of interviews (including with Eva Braun and Hitler’s sister Paula Wolf) and films to create a look at the man behind the horrific vision which created the devastation of World War II.

Produced by Westbrook van Voorhis, this 1950′s television documentary special attempts to summarize Hitler’s (secret) life including WWII in only 52 minutes.

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The Loss of Nameless Things

ilovedocumentaries — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:38:54 +0000

The Loss of Nameless Things is a documentary filmed by Bill Rose. It features Grinder’s Stand scribe and the son of famed novelist Oakley Hall.

Bill Rose examines the tragic fall from grace of the playwright whom many critics believed to be the next great voice in American theater.

Hall III first began to garner attention as the co-founder and artistic director of the Lexington Conservatory Theater in upstate New York. The year was 1978, and Hall III’s work had recently been optioned by Joseph Papp of the renowned Public Theater in New York. The playwright has just completed his verse play, a drama titled Grinder’s Stand that was based on the events surrounding the bizarre death of American explorer Merriweather Lewis, when he suffered extensive head injuries in a fall from a bridge not far from the Lexington Conservatory Theater. Both his life and career were irreparably altered by that fateful fall, leaving many to wonder what would become of the man whom critics often singed out as an enfant terrible with an incredibly bright future. Flash forward twenty-five years, and Hall III was hired as a playwright and consultant by a Northern California theater troupe determined to stage the play that he was writing the night that his life was forever changed, providing filmmaker Rose with the ideal opportunity to bring his remarkable story to the screen for the very first time.

This program first aired on PBS last February 28, 2006.

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The Team

ilovedocumentaries — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:13:03 +0000

The Team is a cinema verite documentary. It features the homeless soccer team from New York City who travel and compete at the 1st Annual Homeless Soccer World Cup being held in Graz, Austria in July 2003.

Teams from 18 nations are hoping to compete in the 4-a-side football tournament. The USA team is being recruited by two brothers who publish a street newspaper and run a homeless shelter.

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The Jackie Robinson Story

ilovedocumentaries — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:54:27 +0000

The Jackie Robinson Story is also considered as one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed despite the fact of low production values and box-office “names.”

The film features Jackie Robinson. It talks about his career from his college days, when he excelled as a track star at Pasadena College and as UCLA’s All-Sports record holder. Upon his graduation, Robinson tries to get a coaching, but this is the 1940s, and most doors are closed to black athletes. After serving in the army, Robinson plays with the Negro Baseball League, where his uncanny skills attract the attention of Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The story continues…

Jackie Robinson Story is surprisingly frank in its detailing of the racial tensions of its own era. It falters only in a couple of silly vignettes involving comic-relief ballplayer Ben Lessey. The cast is uniformly fine, including Louise Beavers as Robinson’s mother, Ruby Dee as his wife Rae (Dee would later play Robinson’s mother in the 1990 TV movie The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson), Joel Fluellen as his brother Mac, Minor Watson.

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