Alexander Scourby

Una extraña masa que emana de la tierra es descubierta por un par de mineros. Lo prueban y deciden comercializarlo al comprobar su buen sabor. Su fama se va extendiendo, y numerosa gente lo consume, pero esta masa controla los cerebros de los que la comen... volviéndoles zombis.

In 1960 Jane Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior of man's closest living relative, the chimpanzee. With dedication and perseverance she earned the trust of a wild chimp community, and gradually they revealed their individual personalities and the rich tapestry of their daily life. This program looks at two landmark decades of Jane Goodall's work, including her dramatic discovery of chimpanzees making and using tools.

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.

Enjoy some of the bizarre and unbelievable creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators and scientists probe the secrets of this infinitely varied wildlife.

Records the wildlife in Etosha, a preserve surrounding a huge dry lake bed in the southwest African country of Namibia. Presents nature's interplay of life and death as it happens

Jesús (también conocida como "La vida pública de Jesús") es una película de 1979, dirigida por John Krish y Peter Sykes y protagonizada por Brian Deacon como Jesús de Nazaret. Esta película corre a través de la vida de Jesús empezando con su nacimiento y culminando con su ascensión a su hogar celestial. El Evangelio de San Lucas de la Santa Biblia, fue escogido como la base del diálogo y acción para la película. Cinco años de cuidadosa preparación antecedieron la filmación en Israel en los lugares donde se llevaron a cabo los hechos reales en el evangelio. Las escenas son emocionantes y muestran muchos de sus milagros.

While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations against their lives.

A study of England's history, with particular emphasis on the role religion has played in shaping the nation and its people. Includes scenes of Stonehenge, the sanctuary at Glastonbury, the fortress of Maiden Castle, and Bamburg Castle. (worldcat.org)

Writer Ernest Hemingway confronts himself at various stages of his life.

Documentary exploring the origins and proliferation of Buddhism throughout Chinese history

The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an idealistic Spanish officer, Captain Montserrat. The Spanish commander, Colonel Izquierdo ('left' in Spanish), threatens Montserrat with torture to find out where Bolivar can be recaptured.

The second of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter is compiled from some of the most vivid footage ever filmed of the life of the Netsilik Inuit in the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic. Together, the two films provide insight and understanding of a culture now almost vanished, as they show the incredible resourcefulness of the Netsilik (People of the Seal) who have adapted to one of the world's harshest environments. Part 2: Eskimo Winter shows how Inuit families gather in communities on the sea ice to harpoon seal as they come up through breating holes in the ice. Also seen is the mid-winter season, a time of intense socializing in the communal igloo, with games, contests and ceremonial activities.

El agente de la inteligencia británica John Shay atribuye el fracaso de una operación de espionaje a su colega Booth, cuya mujer fue novia suya hace tiempo. Los superiores de Shay intentan evitar que investigue a Booth y a su atractiva novia Polly, funcionaria de la agencia de inteligencia. Pero la información que le proporciona, por un lado, un agente ruso desertor y, por otro, el científico Philip Crawford confirma que Booth ha estado robando documentos altamente secretos.

This documentary shows efforts by Canadian wildlife specialists to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas, species such as the whooping crane, prairie falcons, bighorn sheep, bison, polar bears and grizzlies.

This documentary shows efforts by Canadian wildlife specialists to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas, species such as the whooping crane, prairie falcons, bighorn sheep, bison, polar bears and grizzlies.

The grizzly has roamed North America for nearly a million years. And now, in the last century and a half, he has come dangerously close to extinction. Frank and John Craighead have tracked this extraordinary creature.

A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow", each family member's activities are enabled by a central computer and revolve around products remarkably similar to those made by the sponsor. Power comes from a self-contained fuel cell, which supports environmental controls, an automatic cooking system, and a computer-assisted "education room". (IMDb)

El Congreso Internacional de Agentes de Policía se va a celebrar en Nueva York, y el gendarme Cruchot será el encargado de representar a Francia en el mismo. Las cosas parecen ir bien para el agente hasta que aparece su hija Nicole, que ha viajado como polizón hasta Manhattan para reunirse con su padre. La situación ilegal de Nicole en Norteamérica desata los nervios del gendarme, que se empeñará en devolver a su hija a Francia.

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.

Una avioneta pilotada por Jacques aterriza en Taula, una isla minúscula del Pacífico, para dejar a tres criminales y al padre Perrau, que se ha trasladado para relevar al padre Doonan. Un terremoto y una erupción volcánica se producen en la isla y Doonan convence a los recién llegados para saltar en paracaídas y rescatar al personal sanitario y a los niños del hospital de la montaña.

U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen (Ernest Borgnine) helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.

Un desacreditado profesor organiza una banda de siete ladrones altamente profesionalizados con el propósito de robar el dinero del casino de Montecarlo, que se encuentra en un subterráneo fuertemente custodiado. (FILMAFFINITY)

Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

Después de trabajar durante años como cartero, Wilson Daniels (Fred MacMurray) considera a los perros sus peores enemigos. La situación se hace dramática cuando, por arte de un encantamiento oculto en un anillo, su hijo Wilby se transforma en un perro pastor.

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un refugiado judío y un coronel antisemita se ven obligados a convivir en la Francia ocupada por el ejército nazi. Los dos se ven envueltos en un controvertido viaje al que se suma la novia de un oficial.

A richly animated, exquisitely scored film and narrated by Alexander Scourby. Roy Ringwald composed "The Song of Christmas" as an original musical work to tell the Nativity Story in songs, carols, and passages from the Bible. The film was produced to creatively integrate Stuart Knickerbocker's artistic visualizations with Roy Ringwald's inspiring music.

El 30 de Octubre, 1938, orson Welles narró una versión de H.G Wells' La guerra de los mundos. Algunas personas creyeron que fue real..

Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that, although only 28 minutes long, is rich in composition and aesthetic texture.

Jordan "Bick" Benedict, un joven terrateniente, llega a su inmenso rancho de Texas con su flamante esposa Leslie Benedict, una rica y bella muchacha del Este. No tardan mucho en descubrir que pertenecen a mundos radicalmente opuestos y que los separa un abismo. Jett Rink es un arrogante y joven empleado de los Benedict que tiene la suerte de encontrar petróleo en unas tierras que le ha dejado en su testamento Luz, la hermana de Jordan; pero, a pesar de su inmensa fortuna, no consigue lo que realmente le importa: Leslie.

El hijo de un rico industrial es secuestrado por unos desconocidos que exigen un rescate de medio millón de dólares. El padre, aconsejado por el comisario de policía y por un periodista, se niega a entregar la cantidad solicitada. En 1996 se hizo un remake dirigido por Ron Howard y protagonizado por Mel Gibson: Rescate.

Antioquía fue la cuna de los grandes orfebres de la plata. Un padre vende a su primogénito a un hombre rico, para que éste pueda desarrollar las grandes dotes como escultor que su hijo posee. Posteriormente, será vendido como esclavo, hasta que una mujer le haga un encargo: esculpir las efigies de los Apóstoles en el cáliz sagrado.

Durante el siglo V, el Imperio Romano se dividió en dos y fue objeto de ataques de los hunos bajo Atila. El centurión romano Marciano es capturado por soldados hunos e interrogado por Attila, que desea aprender las costumbres de los romanos. Marciano logra escapar a caballo gracias a la encantadora hija de Atila, Kubra. Él va a Constantinopla para avisar al Imperio de Oriente sobre los hunos. Sin embargo el emperador Teodosio tiene la intención de hacer tratos con los bárbaros.

A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'.

Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.

This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewing region, was produced by puppeteer Mabel Beaton and her husband Les for Bell Telephone Company and first aired in 1953. Following a short live-action opening portion, featured are two extended marionette segments, the first dramatizing Clement Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas", the second reverently telling the Nativity story; the two stories are staged in classic, traditional style. From 1953 onward, for several years, The Spirit of Christmas was broadcast in the intended region multiple times per holiday season. It was also available as a 16mm film licensed to schools for showings to students. This film often is misstated to have originally been broadcast in 1950.

Dave Bannion es un honesto policía que investiga el suicidio de un compañero. Bertha, la viuda, le explica a Bannion que a su esposo le habían diagnosticado una grave enfermedad. Pero Lucy, la amante del difunto, le cuenta que, en realidad, el policía había descubierto un complejo entramado de corrupción en su departamento. Cuando Lucy aparece brutalmente asesinada, Bannion decide acusar a Lagana, el mayor mafioso de la ciudad. Al cabo de poco tiempo, el coche de Bannion explota y mata a su esposa, hecho que le llevará a iniciar una salvaje venganza.

During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially proud to accompany the Greek contingent but his feelings change to scorn and mistrust when what he believes is cowardice shown by the Greek soldiers and their leaders results in the near annihiliation of his own platoon. An uneasy alliance is maintained between the US and Greek troops as the enemy's true objective is learned.

(1870) Kate Maxwell, una mujer que regenta una taberna, se debate entre el amor de dos hombres muy distintos entre sí.

El protagonismo de la cinta recae en la ya veterana (aunque solo tenía 39 años) Loretta Young, que encarna a Christine, la mujer de un mafioso que va a parar a prisión por proteger a su marido. En la cárcel encuentra la ayuda de un médico psiquiatra y consigue aprender el oficio de enfermera. Así que cuando sale en libertad logra trabajo en un hospital y, además, se enamora de un joven médico. Pero su pasado le perseguirá inexorablemente.

Steve Emery (Glenn Ford) no cree ni por un momento que su hermano se haya suicidado en Trinidad, así que intenta averiguar la verdad sobre su muerte, actitud que lo enfrenta con su cuñada Chris Emery (Hayworth), cantante en un club nocturno. Desesperado, al verla coquetear con un espía que supone que es el asesino de su hermano, Steve tendrá que actuar con rapidez si quiere impedir que Chris se convierta en la siguiente víctima...

A documentary covering many aspects of the Hell Gate waterway history, including the clearing of the channel, the building of Hell Gate Bridge, and the General Slocum steamship disaster.