Frontier

Documentary about gay-rights activists in Georgia.

A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.

SolarStratos, a mission envisioned by Raphaël Domjan and an airplane designed by Calin Gologan, returns to the skies after a short hiatus in its program in 2018.

Although mysterious and largely inaccessible to humans, the ocean is the cradle of life and an essential nursery for it. Félix Lamarche contemplates it, cozies up to it and sings its praises in this sensory short that’s as much poetry as it is science. The film alternates between archival footage and new material filmed aboard the marine research vessel Coriolis II as it explores the part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence where Quebec and Newfoundland meet. By focusing on this border and its basket of conflicting environmental and economic issues, the filmmaker takes us on a philosophical walk in the bracing coastal air – insisting that the ocean finally be valued fully and properly.

In California in 1848, Brunton through his stooge Sheriff is evicting the Mexicans from their ranches. Major John Freeman and his troops arrive to investigate. Keeping his troops hidden and appearing out of uniform, he takes up the fight against Brunton. He helps a rancher who has been evicted before his taxes were due only to find him murdered and this leads to the showdown between Brunton's men and the soldiers.

Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.

U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.

Worried that he has not unlocked his full creative potential, Oscar, a young writer, throws away medication designed to remediate his schizophrenic outbursts. However, as his medication begins to wear off, Oscar finds it increasingly difficult to differentiate between the story he writes and the reality in which he lives. Centered around themes of isolation and perspective, THE FRONTIERS ARE MY PRISON explores the question: what does it mean to be a "frontiersman" in the twenty-first century?

A series of interviews with members of the worker's union in Las Vegas

On a 5-day book tour, pop music legend Phil Collins promotes a new book that catalogues his obscure collection of artifacts from the Battle of the Alamo. As he answers questions about his collection and his retirement from music, we observe the impact his public persona has had on his life and the more painful realities of being a celebrity. What emerges is an examination of mankind’s obsession with artifacts.

Difficulties faced by a newly independent Austria, as well as other competitiveness and conflict between European nations.

An NHS nurse of twenty years reflects on a challenging and strenuous career as time dwindles to her retirement.

Buckle up for an all-access pass to the last frontier as we take you to Kingfisher Lodge in majestic Sitka, Alaska to fish the productive, nutrient-rich waters for giant halibut, king salmon, lings and rockfish on the adventure of a lifetime. From soaring eagles to wrestling grizzly pups to breaching whales just off of the boat, Alaska is an outdoorsmen’s playground that will not disappoint!

Five top physicists (including 2 Nobel Laureates) highlight a number of current mysteries at the forefront of contemporary theoretical physics.

Sprawling across 1.6 million acres of wilderness, Wood-Tikchik is one of the largest state parks in the United States (around the same size as Delaware). Chugach, on the other hand, is an easily reachable state park just miles from downtown Anchorage. Both parks (and their can't-miss sights) are covered here.

On September 21, 1991, five hundred and fifty hotel and restaurant workers walked off their jobs at the Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. For six years, four months and ten days, they maintained a 24-hour picket line, and not one worker crossed the line to return to work. This film tells their extraordinary story. The film celebrates the solidarity and courage of the Frontier Strikers who have become a national example of the success that can be achieved when all unions come together and persevere. Las Vegas has subsequently been called the “hottest union town in America.”

Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.

Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a former deportee who wrote the commentary for Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog —makes the Spanish Civil War a synecdoche for all forms of brutal exclusion.

Chef Thémis, the founder of the Cooks Without Borders organization, returns to his country of origin, Madagascar, to teach classes and show the underprivileged how to cook.