Out of Nowhere: Champaign Music Scene Documentary (2012)

1978年、ハロウィン前夜に殺人鬼マイケル・マイヤーズが精神病棟を脱走。10月31日、ハロウィンの夜に街で多くの人が襲われ、犠牲になるという戦慄の事件が起きた。この殺人鬼は動機や感情が不明のため、“ブギーマン”と名付けられて人々から恐れられる。事件で生き延びた唯一の生存者ローリー・ストロードは、精神病棟に収監されたマイケルが再び現れることを想定して訓練を続けていた。そして、40年経ったハロウィンの日に、その悪夢は現実のものとなる。

1931年、大恐慌のさなかのシカゴ。アイルランド系マフィアのボス、ジョンから厚い信頼を得る腹心の幹部マイケル。ところが、それを妬ましく思うジョンの不肖の息子コナーは、マイケルの妻と次男を殺害する。長男にも危害が及ぶのを恐れるマイケルは、彼を連れて逃避行を続けながら復讐の機会をうかがう。一方、ジョンは思わぬ事態に驚くが、我が子かわいさのあまり、やむなくマイケル父子に殺し屋のマグワイアを差し向ける。

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda, and brother-in-law, Nabeel.

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

The hunky John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into the gay life of workouts and dusk-to-dawn parties. With actual circuit party footage and mounds of glistening and chiseled flesh, the pulsating Circuit is bound to get your juices flowing.

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.

What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated crushing and scouring effects of glaciers during the last two million years? And what pre-Ice Age throwbacks survived here in this unique geologic refuge that holds more Native American effigy mounds, petroglyph caves, strange geological features, and rare species than anywhere in the Midwest? These questions and more are answered in this captivating new documentary. A team of scientists embarks on a journey of exploration to expose both the science and threats behind three unique features of the zone - rare plants and animals, odd geological phenomenon, and striking remnants of a Native American pilgrimage like no other.

A looking at the famous cemetery

Journey to the Prairie State and discover the history of Illinois' winged Cryptids in the eighth Small Town Monsters film; Terror in the Skies. From mysterious, fog shrouded cliffs to suburban backyards to busy city streets the skies about the Land of Lincoln continue to harbor mysteries. —Seth Breedlove

A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.

Documentary traces the history of Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Covers the earliest days of football at the university, to early concepts for a stadium, World War I, honoring the true Fighting Illini and the first games at the arena built in the early 1920's. Historical film and photographs are mixed with interviews from noted Illinois football players, architects, historians, contractors, veterans and their families, college marching band directors, newspaper reporters and broadcasters.

A b-movie horror-comedy/found footage film about a young student who records his last days of high school before he disappears.