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TED Talks
TED: Documentary films that explore trauma -- and make space for healing | Almudena Toral
TEDmakes a documentary films that explore trauma
Schooling Online
Flying Through Film: Al Pacino, Looking For Richard - Part 1 Summary
This documentary is Al Pacino’s love-letter to William Shakespeare. By exploring and performing Richard III, Shakespeare’s most complex play, Pacino invites us to love the Bard too. But is this play too complex for modern audiences? And...
Schooling Online
Flying Through Film: Al Pacino, Looking For Richard - Part 2 Summary
Continue the journey with Al Pacino as he figures out the tricky parts of Shakespeare’s Richard III. How important is iambic pentameter? What motivates the characters? As the plot heats up, Pacino concentrates on winning audiences over....
The Guardian
Nostalgia for the Light: The Guardian Film Show
The guardian Film Show Nostalgia for the Light: In this extract from this week's Guardian Film Show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review a Chilean documentary that looks at the troubled history of the Atacama desert, a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - History: Storytelling in Print and Film
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ken Burns in the Classroom
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made,...
National Geographic
Researching How to Live With Coyotes | Short Film Showcase
Researchers are studying clashes between coyotes and humans while keeping in mind that humans have provided the settings for the predators to live comfortably. This film by filmmaker Priya Shelly sheds light on North America's coyote...
National Geographic
Kids Take Action Against Ocean Plastic | Short Film Showcase
Despite the vastness of Earth’s oceans, plastic pollutants are turning up everywhere, from the deep sea to the Arctic ice pack. In this short film from filmmaker Chris Hanson, 17 Hawaiian students study the impact of plastic pollution on...
National Geographic
Where Are the Stars? See How Light Pollution Affects Night Skies | Short Film Showcase
Of the many ways Earth is polluted, light pollution may be the least talked about. It's not an illusion; astronomers measure it from one to nine on the Bortle scale, and earlier this year, one study suggested that light pollution may be...
National Geographic
Join This Man on a Safari to Sculpt Animals in the Wild | Short Film Showcase
In the Chyulu Hills of Kenya, master sculptor Mark Coreth is on safari to capture one of the area's largest elephants in clay. Working with extraordinary speed, Coreth sculpts small-scale field studies as a "three-dimensional form of...
National Geographic
See Why This Roller Skating Girl Squad Is the First of Its Kind | Short Film Showcase
Roller Derby is not a typical activity for women in Lebanon. However, a small group of students at the American University in Beirut decided to form the country’s first team. Played on quad roller skates, this full-contact team sport...
National Geographic
One Woman's Remarkable Journey to Protect Lions | Short Film Showcase
Lion conservationist, Moreangels Mbizah, lives in South Africa, works in Zimbabwe, and studies in England. As one of the few female scientists in sub-Sahara Africa, Mbizah is committed to staying on the continent in order to carry out...
National Geographic
Has an Elephant Trampled Your Crops? Call This Hotline For Help | Short Film Showcase
Farmers in India now have help when their livelihoods are impacted by wildlife, thanks to this hotline. If crops are destroyed or livestock is killed, a call is placed and locally based field staff are dispatched to reported incident...
National Geographic
Snow DNA Reveals New Way to Track Animals in Winter | Short Film Showcase
Researchers have used the snow tracks of animals to estimate a species' distribution, but the results are often not conclusive. Now, scientists have discovered a way to gather specific data from snow by sampling eDNA from the tracks of...
Restoration Planet
Seabird Rescue in Spectacular Newfoundland
An unexpected seabird rescue would lead us to our next inspiring story in Newfoundland & Labrador. Stay tuned to the end for some spectacular footage from the coastline of this beautiful Canadian province. Sometimes the story comes to...
Curated Video
Celebrating the travelling community | Take Us As We Are by Liza Mortimer | Short Film | Random Acts
Based on the 1969 BBC archive documentary, ""Where do we go from here"", and the family roots of Minty Smith, 'Take us as we are', cultivates the spirit of freedom of the Gypsy and Traveller community - a nomadic culture still prevalent...
Creators
Special Effects Reveal Everyday Patterns | Cy Kuckenbaker's San Diego Studies
Filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker's San Diego Studies, are short films designed to visualize data through internet documentary. By creating short composites of hours of footage, he is able to reveal the unobservable patterns of everyday San...