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- Lives in Hazard is a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in prison. Filmed in the barrios of east LA and in the prisons of California, this real-life drama follows the making of the Hollywood feature film American Me, in which director Edward James Olmos used real gang members and prison inmates as actors. The fictional scenes these homeboys portray pale in juxtaposition to the stark reality of their daily lives, a world where opportunities are scarce and guns plentiful. The brutal honesty of these gang members as they struggle to change makes Lives in Hazard a powerful story of kids caught up in a growing national crisis.
- A documentary telling the story of the newly reformed Take That. Global mega star 'Robbie Williams' rejoins his former band mates for the first time in over 15 years to record Take That's sixth studio album 'Progress'. 'Look Back, Don't Stare' gives a brutally honest account of how Williams return to the group has affected the other four members and shows how the pressures of fame and the relentless power struggle for artistic leadership between Williams and Barlow contributed to the break up of one of the best selling bands of the 90's.
- New Orleans is famous for its excesses - wild Mardi Gras celebrations, spicy cuisine, sultry jazz, and most recently, the highest murder rate in America. It is a city where reality often takes a back seat to fantasy, where a stripper can become a Queen and a poor black man, a regal Indian chief. In Cutting Loose we become intimate with a diverse handful of New Orleanians -rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight, sheltered and streetwise- for whom Mardi Gras is the ultimate fantasy. Through spontaneous verite scenes, we experience the passionate ordeal these people go through to cut loose during Mardi Gras. Generously spiced with music and humor, Cutting Loose is a veritable gumbo pot of unforgettable characters on an outrageous journey of transformation during this uniquely American ritual.
- Most Americans have heard of domestic violence -particularly after the O. J. Simpson case- but few know this same kind of trouble can affect teen relationships. It Ain't Love follows the young, spirited members of FACES, a gutsy improv theater company, combining acting and therapy, known for "telling it like it is". Given three months to create a show about abusive relationships, the kids, aged 15-24, start by boldly exploring their own love lives. Intense reenactments bring the violence they've experienced and inflicted dramatically to life. Brian acts out a night when he punched his girlfriend in the face and then blamed it on being drunk. When Amares' boyfriend chokes her, it brings back memories of her father battering her mother. Nearly everyone has had some sort of an abusive relationship, and now the guys who abused and the girls who have been abused are forced to reckon with each other, sometimes very loudly. The process is both exhilarating and painful but the members of FACES grow in their understanding of abuse and, in the end, their new show is triumphant.
- It's not just food, it's an adventure.
- A lively portrait of the Kuna Indians of Panama as they unite to protect their homeland, Kuna Yala, and the tradition it inspires. Told entirely in the words of the Kunas, the film contrasts a variety of characters who together tell a story of a culture in flux. At a time when our society is struggling with its relationship to nature, The Spirit of Kuna Yala reminds us that the timeless wisdom of indigenous peoples has something vital to offer the Western world.
- "Small Wonders, Big Threats" is a seven screen immersion experience and the centerpiece of the new Madagascar exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. Comprised of three curved 15' screens and four small panels surrounded by rocks, trees and terrariums, the exhibit puts the spotlight on Madagascar's small biological wonders, the big threats they face, and efforts underway to protect them.
- This lively introduction to the Congo rain forest follows in the footsteps of WCS researchers as they track the elusive lowland gorilla. A hidden world of remarkable beauty is revealed along with the dedicated individuals who are working to protect it. The film ends as the researchers come face to face with a gorilla troop in a forest clearing. The screen pulls away and the audience experiences the same intimate encounter with the gorillas in the Congo Gorilla Forest Exhibit.
- A group of ruthless criminals attempt a bank robbery. They gain access to the bank manager's house by posing as a milk delivery man. Holding the wife hostage, the chief criminal goes to the bank with the manager to conduct the crime. Back at the house, PC Danny Sparks is taken hostage because he spots the car being driven by the criminals. PC Sparks and the true milkman are taken to the bank manager's house as additional hostages. When the police are alerted, the criminal at the bank is overpowered. The criminals at the house negotiate their surrender, but one of them decides to try to make a run for it, but is shot dead by PC Brian Kelleher, who later requests to be relieved from firearms duties.
- As a sergeant, Inspector Longton arrested a man in another area for inappropriate behaviour with young girls. In this episode, the man spots Inspector Longton in the street, and goes to the police station, where he holds Inspector Longton hostage in her office, with PC Danny Sparks.
- An overzealous shop manager tries to have a local respected elderly lady prosecuted for shoplifting of a minor item. The police decide not to pursue the matter.The disgruntled shop manager then refuses to co-operate with an anti-glue sniffing campaign organized by the same police and allows a local youth to purchase a large amount of solvent. A few hours later, PC Danny Sparks discovers the dead body of the boy in a derelict house. A furious Inspector Longton then goes to confront the manager and inform him of the tragic consequences of his actions.
- Southeast Alaska is a land still in the clutches of the last ice age. There are over a hundred glaciers here - massive rivers of ice that flow from the mountains down to the sea. They have shaped this wild land and help give rise to the vibrant pulse of life here; dramatic cycles of feast and famine, death and renewal. In no single spot do the forces of ice and ocean come together as they do in Glacier Bay - a stunning formation of fjords that is the center stage for this great drama. The film follows the region's charismatic wildlife, including brown bears, bald eagles, humpback whales, sea otters and harbor seals, as they struggle to reap the brief abundance of food in spring and summer. Nearly all life here ultimately depends on the salmon and it is the heroic migration of these fish that provides the thread that weaves together the remarkable fabric of life in this story. The story begins as the last storm of winter dumps a fresh load of snow onto already laden peaks. High in a frosted spruce, a bald eagle shakes off the snow and takes flight. The storm clouds part -- it is time for life's reawakening in this land of extremes. We follow a pair of courting eagles as they bank and weave over snow covered peaks. The warming temperatures of spring loosen a huge drift, sending an avalanche of snow thundering to the valley below - adding to the weight that is gradually pushing a glacier out to sea. The glaciers of southeast Alaska ebb and flow with the seasons. But more than just ice is bound by these rhythms - they are the very shape of life in Glacier Bay. Ice melt from the glacier feeds an idyllic mountain stream. We descend beneath the surface and to find a clutch of pink eggs writhing in the gravel. Within, tiny salmon struggle to break free. Like the glaciers, they too will journey to the sea and back. Their heroic migration provides the thread that weaves together the remarkable fabric of life in this story. Through the spring and early summer we follow some of the region's most charismatic animals as they respond to a sudden availability of food: seals gather by the thousands to give birth to their pups in front of a thundering glacier; a pair of bald eagles raise their chick, high atop a towering spruce; hungry brown bears dig for clams on the beach and seek out mates; a pod of humpback whales scoop up tons of herring with the help of an ingenious hunting technique called bubble net fishing; and the tiny salmon make their way out to sea, past a gauntlet of predators. As the young salmon venture seaward, they cross paths with their elders - five and six year old salmon returning from the gulf of Alaska. Guided by the Earth's magnetic fields and a keen sense of smell, they seek out the river of their birth. Their journey upstream to spawn and die is the dramatic climax of the story. On a mission as old as time they must overcome rapids, shallow water, and hungry predators to fulfill their purpose. Throughout the film, the camera work of Emmy Award winning cinematographer Andrew Young places the audience inside the story with innovative shots that reveal the world of the subjects, whether they be herring darting to escape the talons of an approaching eagle or salmon struggling to elude the groping claws of a bear. As the first snows of winter fall, dead salmon line the river banks by the thousands. They have been a gift of life from the ocean that has sustained the creatures of the land. And now, the land shall give back, for buried safely in the gravel, nourished by the glacial melt, lie a new generation of salmon that will emerge to feed both land and sea. And the timeless cycle of life will continue in this Eden called Glacier Bay.
- In the dawn light, mist caresses the forested mountains of an alien world. A strange shape appears in the trees -- a furry creature looking like something from the pages of a Dr. Suess book. It throws back its head and lets out a deafening wail. Welcome to planet Madagascar - a world unto itself, where evolution has taken the familiar and created the bizarre. Split off from the African mainland since the age of dinosaurs, Madagascar's isolation provided a safe haven for creatures from a forgotten time. Here, they flourished into countless forms that exist nowhere else. This installment of the award winning "Living Edens" series presents an extraordinary cast of characters. Chameleons of every color, shape and size snap up insects with marksman-like accuracy. A panther-like carnivore called a fossa pursues its prey through the tree tops with frightening agility. Brilliantly colored frogs emerge from the ground and compete vigorously for mates. A majestic fish eagle, one of the rarest birds of prey in the world, gracefully plucks its meal from a river. And then there are the charismatic lemurs. Many of these primitive primates look like stuffed toys, and each seems more whimsical than the last. Madagascar is a world of the unfamiliar; where insects masquerade as dead leaves and twigs; where a piece of tree bark transforms into a stalking lizard. It is home to one of the strangest creatures on earth, the aye-aye. Emerging at night with its amber eyes, wiry hair and bat-like ears, the aye-aye is a actually a lemur. It gnaws into a dead tree and fishes out grubs with a skeleton-like finger. The island's habitats are also diverse. They include lush tropical rain forests where ruffed lemurs endure the daily deluge as sopping balls of fur; sun-baked dry forests where dwarf lemurs spend most of the year in hibernation to escape desiccation; a vast realm of towering limestone pinnacles, and a forbidding spiny desert, where ring-tailed lemurs gingerly negotiate the two-inch thorns of a didierae tree to find food. This "Living Edens" portrait is an experiential journey though the natural wonders of this unique island. Gliding over mountain tops, into tree holes and down streams, the camera takes on the perspective of the island's creatures, many of which have never before been filmed. One of these is the bandro, a secretive teddy-bear like lemur that lives amongst the reeds of an ancient marsh. Today, the bandro's world is disappearing. Encroaching humans now set fire to the marsh to improve access to fishing grounds. As a bandro family struggles to escapes the flames, we are reminded that no paradise can be taken for granted. Madagascar's story is a testament to the fragility of all the Earth's living Edens, and of the care that must be taken to see them endure.