At the Edge of the World (2008)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 37分
演出 : Dan Stone
シノプシス
At the Edge of the World chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, under-trained and under-equipped, develop a combination of bizarre and brilliant tactics with which to stop the whalers. But first they must find the Japanese ships, a far more difficult challenge than ever imagined - long-time activist Paul Watson and first-time captain Alex Cornelissen employ an array of strategies in the hopes of finding an elusive adversary in the vast expanse of the Ross Sea. With one ship (the Farley Mowat) too slow to chase down the whaling fleet, with their second ship (the Robert Hunter) unsuited for Antarctic ice conditions and with no country supporting their efforts to enforce international law, the situation becomes increasingly desperate. Against all odds, however, a real-life pirate tale unfolds - a modern-day "David vs. Goliath" adventure.
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.
The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Addressing the biggest challenges facing life on our planet, the film offers a powerful message of hope for future generations.
アル・ゴア元米副大統領が環境問題を提起するドキュメンタリー映画。彼のスライド講演を中心に、地球崩壊の危機を訴える。監督は、『24 TWENTY FOUR』や『ER 緊急救命室』を手がけたデイヴィス・グッゲンハイム。
Filmmakers Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey chronicle a year in the lives of an Alaskan brown bear named Sky and her cubs, Scout and Amber. Their saga begins as the bears emerge from hibernation at the end of winter. As time passes, the bear family must work together to find food and stay safe from other predators, especially other bears. Although their world is exciting, it is also risky, and the cubs' survival hinges on family togetherness.
自然の恵み多き東京は多摩丘陵。そこに住むタヌキたちはのんびりとひそやかに暮していた。しかし、宅地造成による自然破壊によって、タヌキたちのエサ場が次第に少なくなっていた。自分たちの住処を守るため、タヌキたちは先祖伝来の“化け学”で人間たちに対抗することにする。
Junior congressman Evan Baxter, whose wish is to "change the world" is heard by none other than God. When God appears with the perplexing request to build an ark, Evan is sure he is losing it.
巨匠ポール・シュレイダー監督が構想50年の末に完成させたサスペンス。夫に出産を反対されている女性の相談を受けた神父が、教会が汚職企業から献金を受けていることを知らされ、内なる怒りに苦しむことに……。
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes—in moments private and public, funny and poignant—as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
The incredible true story of nature’s greatest explorers—lemurs. Through footage captured with IMAX 3D, audiences go on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar. Join trailblazing scientist Patricia Wright on her lifelong mission to help these strange and adorable creatures survive in the modern world.
動物と話ができるお医者さんとして有名になった、ドクター・ドリトルは大忙し。そこへ野生のビーバーからSOSが入った。たくさんの動物の住み処である森が破壊されそうだという。森の伐採をやめさせるには、絶滅寸前品種の熊の繁殖地であることを証明しなければならない。そこで、ただ一頭残った野生のメス熊のお婿さん候補を探すのだが、見つかったのは、魚とりも満足にできないサーカス育ちの曲芸熊アーチ―だった。森と動物たちを救うため、何とか2頭の熊をカップルにしようと、ドリトル先生は大奮闘！そして、動物vs人間の対決が迫る！
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
The story of one remarkable woman who became a global icon in animal welfare and conservation who not only hoped for a better world, she achieved it! This sweeping documentary celebrates the vast legacy of Dr. Goodall’s four decades of advocacy work for chimpanzees and depicts the next chapter for generations to come.
アメリカでベストセラーとなった小説を、ロバート・レッドフォード自ら製作・監督・主演で映画化。心の病を癒すため、馬の心が分かる人物を訪ねる親子……。人間と馬との心の交流を感動的に描いた作品。
Sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
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An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
南極では、天敵から襲われない氷に覆われた海の上を子育ての場に選んだ母アザラシが子育てを開始。一方、エチオピアのシミエン山地では、骨も溶かす強力な胃液を持っているヒゲワシが、大きいサイズの骨を食べやすくするため、高所から岩場に落として割っている。そしてケニアの草原では、とても珍しいチーター三兄弟が協力して獲物を狙う。
Follow Jeremy Jones and other top freeriders as they travel to the world's snowboarding meccas and venture past the boundaries of helicopters, snowmobiles, and lifts to explore untouched realms.
In House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic, an AIDS film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten. This is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players; in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. House of Numbers could well be the opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic gone awry.
PLAY dresse un portrait de l'humanité par le sport. Partout dans le monde, les hommes jouent. Pour se dépasser, se mesurer, s'unir, s'illustrer ou créer le spectacle... Le sport est l'un des plus petits dénominateurs du genre humain. Il se retrouve dans toutes les sociétés, toutes les cultures, toutes les classes sociales et à toutes les époques. D'une pulsion primitive au plus grand événement du monde, du sport le plus méconnu au plus mondialisé, des plateaux arides éthiopiens aux stades survoltés des mégalopoles, le film voyage au cœur de cette activité universellement partagée. Construit comme un film "opéra" avec les plus belles images de sport tournées en très haute définition ou des archives récentes de grande qualité, PLAY repose sur la parole conjointe et entrelacée de grands champions internationaux et d'athlètes anonymes de sports méconnus. Un film qui témoigne de notre diversité mais aussi de ce qui nous relie.
Dave's encore from his special Sticks and Stones.
A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.
At a time when powerlessness and resignation carry the day, Noam Chomsky's work is a radical antidote for all those who want to put an end to the factory of powerlessness and its intellectual media star watchdogs. Theoretician of language, born in Philadelphia in 1928, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics with the "generative grammar." But Chomsky is also a political analyst involved in all political struggles for decades. His clear analysis and rational ideological mechanisms of our societies is a crucial resource for critical thinking today.
About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.
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977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual realms of human being. The characters have volunteered for the experiment to be put through not only scientific researching, but also through the everyday trials of friendship, love, attractions, envy and “the strongest of affects” – the curiosity. Thus, the scientific experience turns into human one, and a result is unpredictable…
Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.
Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.
Short film made in 1997 while David Gordon Green was attending the North Carolina School of Arts that formed the genesis of his feature film debut, "George Washington".
“The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as "one of the most memorable amateur films ever made".
When Arthur, self-proclaimed son of God, sets off on a mission to find the Queen of Heaven, his world changes.
Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.
A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War: "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.
The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in conjunction with speech, hearing aids, lip reading, gestures and the written word. The film shows sequences dealing with various aspects of this comprehensive training such as teaching students and parents to sign; speech therapy; psychological counseling; regular academic courses; vocational training; disciplinary problems; parents visits; sports and recreational activity; training in living and working independently; and developing skills in home and money management.
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen-year-old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing natural charm and grace as a dancer. A longtime devotee of the world of dance, Bass felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that he could not yet have fully imagined. From the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the halls of New York’s School of American Ballet to the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, DANCING ACROSS BORDERS peeks behind the scenes into the world of dance and chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of a boy who was discovered, and who only much later discovered all that he had in himself.
