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ECW: Hardcore History
Put down your pencils and rulers and pick up your steel chairs and barbed wire bats. It's time for an Extreme lesson in what true hardcore professional wrestling is all about. Joey Styles, the voice of Extreme Championship Wrestling, is your person instructor for this very special edition of the ECW video series. Forget about reading and writing, i..
Stargate: History Made
Divided into three segments, "Deciphering the Gate: Concepts and Casting" (7:50), "Opening the Gate: The Making of Stargate" (10:11) and "Passing Through the Gate: The Legacy" (4:29), the shows look at the film's origins and development, cast and performances, locations and effects, visual and set design, the use of the Egyptian language, and the ..
Antarctica: A Frozen History
Antarctica: A Frozen History takes a look at the history and stories of the human explorations in the Antarctic. Although quite slow paced and relatively old, the documentary film successfully incorporates reconstructed film material and original Antarctic expedition footage to fully illustrate the hardships of the heroic and extreme arctic explor..
FDA: A History
This documentary shows that the FDA has always been managed and run by sometimes extraordinary, but always quite human people who have been placed in the news every week- almost always by someone who is angry at them. The film clearly respects the dilemmas of the agency and its reliance on science and the law as its most exemplary strength.
Oral History
The true love story behind New Orleans' last remaining gay leather bar.
Hysterical History
An amusing look at American history, starting with Columbus' discovery of America, and touching on the formation of the original thirteen states, the Gold Rush, and several other important events. The cartoon ends with the song Yankee Doodle Boy, presented as a singalong.
Unnatural History
Theo Valasquez's abandoned acoustic research in the Rangipo desert is narrated through fragments of an unfinished TV documentary. Meanwhile, the silence of the desert tells its own story.
History Today
Newman and Baddiel discuss history
Escaping History
Ostensibly embarking upon a portrait of a "modern-day Abraham Lincoln", Escaping History traces the development of a relationship between the videomaker and his subject. As the story unfolds, it veers from the objective to the highly personal. The tape relates the story of Mel Glasser, a recovering schizophrenic who, having adopted the persona of A..
Nursing History
In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.
Australian History
Short directed by Bruce Petty.
Oral History
A drama adapted from Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's short story 'Oral History'
Liquid History
A documentary taking a journey down the Thames from Tower Bridge to the Shellhaven refinery near London.
Counseling History
A Historical Comedy told through the point of a couple arguing in Therapy.
Case History
Jacobs described Case History as follows: "Most of the sound was to be inner monologue. . . . Realistic street sounds, remembered phrases and thought—all exaggerated and distorted to emphasize the stream of consciousness of one's inner—but disturbed—logic.
Tracing History
Tracing History follows a Chinese American mother and daughter on a road trip to reconnect with their ancestors and each other. They travel to locations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Great Basin Desert where their Chinese ancestors worked to build the transcontinental railroad. From Montgomery Pass where 150 year old artifacts lay strewn acros..
Minor History
Minor History is a portrait of Wahid, the 90-year-old uncle of the director. This true storyteller was born in India in the 1920s, fled to Pakistan, joined the army there and came to the US in the 1980s. He now lives in a cold, snowy city and is a well-known eccentric in the pool halls. The film tries to map out the radical changes in consciousness..
No History
An experimental short about the connection between a trail and many forlorn buildings and the nature that grows through them. Obviously inspired by the style of Terrence Malick.
