Documentary

We take flight safety entirely for granted and scarcely bother to pay attention to the in flight security briefing. Should we be so casual? Every plane that lifts off has to negotiate a dozen hazards to arrive at it's destination safely, from the...

What lies at the bottom of the oceans? This unique documentary follows a group of scientists from Cambridge in the UK and from Russia on a voyage to explore the mysteries of the seabed over 3000 metres beneath the mid Atlantic. Using a state-of-the-art...

Roadmap Jerusalem is a documentary that tracks the connection of Jerusalem to the Jewish people by exploring the biblical, archaeological and political history of the city. Over the course of filming, Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz comes to the realization that...

Victory Remembered' tells the inspiring story of The First Special Service Force, a secret Allied commando unit during WWII. They were also known as the Black Devils, the name given them by their terrified German enemy. They were the first combined U.S...

This film commemorates the 50th Anniversary of a television series light years ahead of it's time. Against the backdrop of two projects: rebuilding the bridge and restoring the original USS Enterprise model, astronauts, engineers, writers as well as the...

This award-winning film by Ken Burns recaptures the drama, struggles, and personal tragedies behind the greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. Largest bridge of the era, it's construction entailed enormous problems...

Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them-victims of madness, death, and...

Three years before Lawrence of Arabia made him an international sensation, dashing Egyptian actor Omar Sharif starred in this wonderful masterpiece of Egyptian cinema that has been virtually unseen in the US since it's release in 1959. Sensual and...

Seattle's do-it-yourself ethic and uncompromising artistic sensibilities are at the center of Seattle Women in Film, an eclectic collection of the best short films by Seattle's top women filmmakers. Presenting a total of twenty-one works.

Set during the current intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is thirteen and cares for his four younger brothers; the Hammash family pass on the lessons of life with humor and...

Soon after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi returns to Baghdad after 35 years. She accompanies her father, 80-year-old Adnan Pachachi, who is returning to head the committee responsible for drafting Iraq's temporary Constitution.

Explore the most critical clashes of WWII-the air battles fought over France and Britain in the Summer of 1940-in this moving and rare firsthand recounting of events, told in interviews with 19 veterans, who engaged in these history-defining battles.