Documentaries : Biography

Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978. Milk’s life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco’s gay community, and t...

The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Episode 1 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson tells the story of the first African-American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports and his struggle, in and out of the ring, to live his life as a free man. Part One follows Jack Joh...

"This program provides a detailed and unique look into the qualities, both physical and philosophical, that drove Bruce Lee to international stardom. This film pieces together rare early footage of Bruce practising and teaching his own form of martial arts, Jeet Kun Do, and explains the power h...

Documental sobre Julio Cortazar...

Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel - a veteran New Jerse...

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and i...

Pablo Escobar was the richest, most powerful drug kingpin in the world, ruling the Medell n Cartel with an iron fist. Andres Escobar was the biggest soccer star in Colombia. The two were not related, but their fates were inextricably-and fatally-intertwined. Pablo's drug money had turned Andres' nat...

Nova The Great Inca Rebellion: THE GREAT INCA REBELLION explores the final days of the Incan Empire, using startling new evidence to shed light on how this great civilization was brought to ruin....

I can't tell you what it's like to live in foster care but I can tell you stories. Four people, two teenagers, a twenty-two year old and a thirty-nine year old all live or lived in foster care. The director, Sasha Isaac-Young journeys through their separate lives searching for a common experience o...

The nation's most famous police officer takes over the nation's most infamous police department PETER JENNINGS REPORTING: LAPD looks at what happens when the nation's most famous police officer takes over the nation's most infamous police department. The result is a complex tale about the struggle...