Twisp: The Power of Community is a documentary exploring the people and values that make this tiny town in north central Washington a thriving community, rather than another abandoned farm town or commercialized strip of interstate.Scenic beauty is definitely part of the appeal. Yet Twisp also displays a “can-do” spirit that encompasses everything from local food to local food for thought. How many towns of 937 fulltime residents boast their own...

This film provides insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by families in three contrasting communities in Costa Rica. Developed for an innovative teaching collaboration between Southern New Hampshire University and earth University, the film looks at key community economic development issues as seen by the region's residents, by earth University students working in the communities, and by experienced University faculty. The video includes...

In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community facing the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden...

Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni ("God's Gift")...

In Life in Occupied Palestine, Anna Baltzer, a graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish-American granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, documents her experience as a volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank. Baltzer provides a straightforward account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while chronicling the almost unbearable living conditions of Palestinians under the Occupation. An accessible introduction to a...

A chance meeting between an accountant and a housewife results in a 26-year affair where they meet only once a year.

Downton Abbey--a sprawling Edwardian mansion and park nestled in the lush North Yorkshire countryside--needs an heir. A tragedy at sea has claimed the life of the presumed heir, and Lord Grantham is faced with the possibility that the house he's loved his whole life might one day belong to a distant cousin he's never met. Before he can worry about that, he must deal with his scandalous daughter, Lady Mary, who many believe to be the rightful heir...

South Africa, 1976. The police ruled Gordon Ngubene’s death a suicide. But when Afrikaans school teacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) saw the body, he knew his friend was the victim of police torture. Seeking justice, Ben hires Ian McKenzie (Marlon Brando) to represent the family at the inquest, but when the judge ignores the evidence, Ben risks his family and career to takes on a system run by racists, thugs and murderers. Jurgen Prochnow and...

Journey into the world of the Roma - a people who through the ages have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture, politics and art, and who have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution. Visiting 11 countries and interviewing dozens of Roma artists, historians, musicians and Holocaust survivors, this revealing film documents their culturally rich but often difficult lives, taking us back to ancient times and forward to the little-known...

A humanistic and comical look into the daily grind of a police squad in a typical major American city. It was Everycity and Anycity, modern urban America with all it's perils. For seven acclaimed seasons, these unforgettable cops put their lives on the line for the better of their city. From numerous gang-related crimes to robbery and drug trafficking, the cases these cops dealt with were matched only by their own personal lives.