Legendary TV news anchor Walter Cronkite takes ecstatic Disneyland tourist Robin through the process of Disney’s hand drawn animation and makes Robin’s wish of visiting the animated world of Peter Pan (1953) come true.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Babcock Transformers
a short documentary filmed by Keith Barnfather in 1989 about Babcock Transformers.
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Movie Showman
This short film portrays the NFB’s itinerant projectionists during the ’40s and early ’50s who travelled throughout Canada, bringing films and discussions to rural communities. The film uses a mix of dramatic re-enactments with archival footage and interviews with veterans of the movie circuit to shed light on an important period in Canadian film history.
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The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
A behind-the-scenes look at the putting on of the successful West End stage musical, including footage of the cast rehearsing and the triumphant first night.
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How Hitler Lost the War
Through interviews with former World War II fighter aces, “How Hitler Lost the War” examines the theory that the German Armed Forces substantially won and then lost the war in Europe before 1942. That had it not been for the political and military mistakes of Adolf Hitler, the United States would have had to stand alone against a Nazi Europe allied with an even more powerful Japan, and face a future that is barely imaginable.
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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
A documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.
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W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village — all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith’s stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue take from Smith’s diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work developed from twin themes of common humanity and social responsibility.
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High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet
Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri String Quartet.
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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump’s United States of America.
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The Fallen Fortress
When a Japan-based American journalist discovers that a World War II B-29 engine was unearthed from a sacred mountain he embarks on a quest to uncover the fate of the US airmen.