Jon Neuburger

A film about the current debate on eating and raising cattle for food, showing that animal-sourced foods are nutritious for humans, and can be raised in a way that is beneficial for the environment.

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one thought he could win. Once in office, he declared that there was a vast conspiracy threatening America — emanating not from a rival superpower, but from within. Free of restraint or oversight, he conducted a crusade against those he accused of being enemies of the state, a chilling campaign marked by groundless accusations, bullying intimidation, grandiose showmanship and cruel victimization. With lawyer Roy Cohn at his side, he belittled critics, spinning a web of lies and distortions while spreading fear and confusion. After years in the headlines, he was brought down by his own excesses and overreach. But his name lives on linked to the modern-day witch hunt we call “McCarthyism.”

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous people in the country.

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys".

During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. Many of the men picked to carry out these dangerous deception missions were artists. Some went on to become famous, including fashion designer Bill Blass. In their spare time, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and moving visual record of their war. Their secret mission was kept hushed up for nearly 50 years after the war's end.

Mark Oliver Everett, singer of the band EELS, on his quest to get to know his late father, quantum physicist Hugh Everett III, who invented the Many Worlds theory.

A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from, Borderline Personality Disorder. The production also features family members as well as leading clinicians, including Otto F. Kernberg, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhDl John Gunderson, MD; Wayne Fenton, MD; and Perry Hoffman, PhD, who put their stories into a broader social and medical context.

The last year or so of the war in the Pacific during WWII. It picks up at the point where the inevitability of an American victory seems certain--it's only a matter of time. It then discusses the ferocity of the Japanese defense, the American bombing campaign, the kamikaze, the Emperor and his resistance to surrender and the American feelings towards a negotiated peace.

City of the Century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten, the shop assistants and the millionaire retail barons who together created Chicago. It describes how through innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer ruthlessness, the captains of industry created empires in a marshy wasteland. And it explores the hardships endured by the millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- whose labor helped a capitalist class reinvent the way America did business.

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president, he was the embodiment of the very idea of national union, and of America's entry onto the world stage. As a dying general, he was the symbol of the nation's greatest and most traumatic war. The story of Ulysses S. Grant's life, from his first days on the Ohio frontier to his last days out-writing death in the Adirondacks, is an endlessly fascinating one. Few public figures have ever held a such a firm grip on the American popular imagination. Grant was a man whose rise from obscurity made him a hero to millions who could see themselves in him. An ordinary man who faced and met extraordinary challenges, his successes and failures seemed to encapsulate the national character. He was so popular with the American public that, despite his two scandal-ridden terms as president, he was nearly nominated to run for a third term.

HOLDING GROUND is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative went on to gain national recognition as residents fought to close down illegal dumps, gain unprecedented control of land from City Hall and create a comprehensive plan to rebuild the fabric of their community. Through the voices of committed residents, activists and city officials, this moving documentary shows how a Boston neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change.

One thousand years ago, the vikings were lost to a mysterious coast in the Northe Antlantic.Kilian, the Irish slave,stole the navigating stone,fortunately original people of Americath rescued him and helped him how to living on there.

Marion é uma mulher que aprendeu a se proteger de suas emoções. Ela aluga um apartamento para trabalhar sem ser perturbada em seu novo livro, mas por alguma anomalia acústica ela pode ouvir tudo o que é dito no apartamento ao lado em que um psiquiatra mantém seu consultório. Quando ela ouve uma mulher jovem dizer que muita dificuldade para suportar sua vida, Marion começa a refletir sobre sua própria vida. Depois de uma série de eventos, ela chega a entender como sua atitude impassível em relação às pessoas ao seu redor afetou a si e a ela mesma.

Agosto. Em uma casa de campo em Vermont, a dona de casa Lane (Mia Farrow), o publicitário Peter (Sam Waterston), Stephanie (Dianne Wiest), Diane (Eliane Stritch), Lloyd (Jack Warden) e Howard (Denholm Elliott) passam juntos o último dia do verão. Lane alugou sua casa de hóspedes para Peter e nutre por ele uma forte paixão. Ele, por sua vez, ama Stephanie, que se sente vazia no casamento. Já Howard também nutre uma paixão, por Lane.

Um olhar nostálgico na época de ouro do rádio. No início da Segunda Guerra Mundial em Nova York, uma família comum tem seus sonhos inspirados nos programas de rádio da época. Como não existia televisão, as famílias se reuniam ao redor do rádio e cada membro da família tinha seu programa preferido. O destemido Vingador Mascarado, o Café da Manhã Show com os socialites e galanteadores Roger e Irene e Sally, a "Garota dos Cigarros", são quase tão importantes quanto, por exemplo, se o Oceano Pacífico é menor do que o Atlântico, ou mesmo o que o seu pai realmente faz para ganhar a vida.

O diretor alemão Wim Wenders viaja até o Japão para explorar o mundo de um de seus “mestres” do cinema, o célebre diretor japonês Yasujiro Ozu. Ele nos apresenta suas próprias visões sobre o país, alternando com encontros e entrevistas a colegas de trabalho e ao elenco dos filmes de Ozu.

A short by and about Wim Wenders -- his life, work, thoughts, America, cinema.

Leão de Ouro em Veneza/1983, "O Estado das Coisas" foi dirigido por Wender durante um hiato na produção de "Hammett", que ele estava filmando nos EUA. Uma equipe cinematográfica está em Portugal para realizar um remake de um clássico de sci-fi americano, "The Most Dangerous Man Alive". A produção é paralisada quando o produtor Gordon vai a Los Angeles apresentar o copião das primeiras cenas e solicitar mais verba aos seus investidores. Como Gordon não retorna, Fritz, o diretor, decide ir procurá-lo nos EUA. Mas o produtor é agora um homem mudado: vive escondido, temendo a chegada de um suposto assassino. Fritz, a princípio, pensa que aquilo não passa de um delírio paranoico de Gordon, mas muda de ideia quando a vida de ambos se transforma numa absurda trama de filme B.

Also titled The 20 Mile Limit, this is a short film that ran on Showtime between feature film showings. It centers on a dystopian government that has created a new present: the Evolutionary Reconstruction. This government has instated a 20 mile limit in the ocean, past which nobody can travel due to deadly radiation. Claire Lucas and Fred Hunter believe that there is more to the story.