Docurama (Firm)
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
John Lee was a teenage runaway who never went to school and who spent years working in a factory before becoming one of the most prolific blues artists of all times. An inside look to the life and times of this blues legend and the music that influenced a rising generation of rockers.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Laughing club of India (35 min. - col.): explores the power of laughter through the strangely popular phenomenon of laughing clubs in contemporary Bombay. A film by Mira Nair and Adam Bartos. Producer, Adam Bartos ; director, Mira Nair ; director of photography, Adam Bartos.
Why can't we be a family again? (27 min. - col.): chronicles the plight of two brothers in foster care, as they attemp to reunite with a mother who abandoned them for drugs over...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The film draws on over 25 years of exclusive video footage that captures Ellison at his most inspiring and irritating, curmudgeonly and lovable. See Ellison rant about the idiocies of geekdom, confess to mailing a dead gopher to an executive at a publishing house, and more.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious and affectionate look at the path to stardom inside the competitive world of grand opera. Weaving together portions of eight acclaimed operas with personal interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, the film explores the choristers' lives.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On 10.10.10, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students and other inspired citizens recorded the human experience over a 24-hour period and contributed their voices to a global day of media creation called ONE DAY ON EARTH. It was the first ever simultaneous filming event occurring in every country in the world and it became a showcase of the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occur in one day.
Publisher
DocuRama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Paints a poignantly captivating, unflinching, and relevant portrait of the children of Stanton Elementary School in North Philadelphia, an inner-city neighborhood where 90% of the students live below the poverty line. As seen through the devoted and determined viewpoint of principal Deanna Burney, this shows Stanton as grossly underfunded, understaffed, and filled with children struggling to overcome their difficulties. However, for these at-risk...
9) Faster
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This DVD tells the story of the MotoGP championship, the pinnacle of motorcycle racing. The championship is compromised of sixteen races on five continents contested by twenty-four of the world's top riders on the fastest motorcycles in existence.
10) Radio Bikini
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Using extraordinary and rarely seen archival footage, director Robert Stone brings to light the largely untold story of Bikini Atoll. A peaceful, tropical island in the Pacific, it was the site of a series of atomic bomb tests in 1946.
11) Jupiter's wife
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004], c1994
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Maggie, a beguiling homeless woman living in New York City's Central Park. In her forties, Maggie's vibrant personality and unconventional persona attract attention since she has 6 dogs and carries a hugh backpack full of her personal belongings. A captivating jumble of cryptic stories, Maggie's conversations are laced with intriguing claims - including the claim that she is the daughter of actor Robert Ryan and that she is married...
12) Harvest of shame
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Presented by CBS News correspondent Dan Rather, Murrow's Harvest of Shame is among the most famous television documentaries of all time. Richly photographed and arrestingly poignant, this long-acclaimed 1960 expose on the plight of migrant farm workers resonated deeply for a nation unfamiliar with such brutally honest depictions of living conditions that, as Murrow remarks, "wrong the dignity of man."
13) Pelican dreams
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows a wayward California brown pelican from her "arrest" on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans' nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration and survival challenges.
14) Balseros
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The heartrending yet triumphant account of seven Cuban refugees who risked everything in pursuit of the American Dream. Follows a lively group of rafters, many of whom were detained at the Guantanamo naval base before being allowed onto American soil.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Before Russell Simmons' Def Poety Jam, Slamnation captured the cutthroat world of spoken-word poetry. The film follows Saul Williams and three other top poets as they make their way to the annual 1996 National Poetry Slam, the Super Bowl of poetry.