City of the Dead

It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the best minds of its time, a problem so important that...

A documentary profiling cemeteries and cemetery-related businesses and events across the United States.

This Traveltalk series short looks at California, beginning with the diverse types of flowers found in the state. After a look at some popular Hollywo...

A cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada is seen through the eyes of its former superintendent.

Short documentary by Man Ray on one his favorite subjects - bullfighting.

A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various a...

Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family t...

The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath (1932-63),published in Febru...

In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an apparently very old human skeleton, at least 24,000 y...

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Eri...

Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.