History

Missile Silo Homes

Missile Silo Homes

In the 1960s, the US government built secret missile silos across the country to protect citizens against nuclear attack. They now serve as homes to the reclusive and gathering places to the adventurous.

Street Vets - Homeless Veteran - PBS Documentary Film

Street Vets – Homeless Veteran – PBS Documentary Film

Over 100,000 United States Veterans are homeless every year. In this one-hour documentary, filmmaker Issac Goeckeritz takes viewers into the largely invisible world of homeless veterans and the difficult, but hopeful, pathways home.

The Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro

Sasha Aleksandrov shows daily life in the Metro of Moscow with timelapse and fish eye shots.

Birth of a Book

Birth of a Book

Filmmaker Glen Milner made a nice little doc film about the production of books. A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods.

Minka

Minka

A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.

The Ruins of New York

The Ruins of New York

New York City is brimming with abandoned, hidden, and forgotten spaces. Besides a select group of men who make their living discovering their hidden value, few people are aware these places exist.

Lockerbie: Case closed

Lockerbie: Case closed

The Lockerbie disaster was Europe’s worst terrorist outrage, but was it also Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice? This film investigates the case against Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and finds evidence to suggest he may have been wrongly accused.

Prime Burger Restaurant

Prime Burger Restaurant

For many of the guys that work here, the restaurant is like a second home – some of them have been slinging burgers, making shakes, and waiting on customers at this location for decades.

Farewell Kodachrome! (and Kodak!?)

Farewell Kodachrome! (and Kodak!?)

In commemoration of its 75th and final year, a documentary look at the first color film and the last lab in the world that processed it. And it won’t get any better: The 130-year-old Photography pioneer Kodak filed for bankruptcy last week.