Watchers of the Sky
Genres
Overview
Five interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
114 min
Release Date
2014-01-20
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
6
Vote Average
5.6
Benjamin Ferencz
Self
Raphael Lemkin
Self (archive footage)
Matt Mitler
Raphael Lemkin
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Self
Samantha Power
Self
Emmanuel Uwurukundo
Self
8.0
$avvy
$avy investigates the historical, cultural, and societal norms around women and money.
2021-04-01 | en
7.7
On Native Soil
The film analyzes the efforts by the families of 9/11 victims to create the 9/11 Commission and what information was revealed by it in the 9/11 Commission Report.
2006-01-01 | en
6.4
American Teen
A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
2008-07-25 | en
0.0
From Victoria Street to Ang Mo Kio
This work documents a segment of Singapore’s education history –– the survival of the nation’s first Catholic missionary Chinese girls’ school through adversities during her formative years. It is a tribute to the arduous efforts and contributions of a generation of admirable educators who persevered in delivering the education of love with resilience and steadfastness.
2019-05-26 | en
0.0
Apache
Short about the daily life of the Apaches, including their ceremonies.
1953-01-01 | en
7.1
Deliver Us from Evil
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
2006-06-24 | en
7.0
Walkers of time
María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.
2017-03-12 | es
0.0
It Was a Wonderful Life
Documentary - They're clean, educated, articulate and rarely receive public assistance. But following a divorce, job loss or a long illness, a growing number of middle-class women are forced to live out of their cars. Directed by Michèle Ohayon (Colors Straight Up) and narrated by Jodie Foster, It Was a Wonderful Life chronicles the hardships and triumphs of six "hidden homeless" women as they struggle to survive, one day at a time. - Jodie Foster, Lou Hall, Reena Sands
1993-01-01 | en
5.8
Town Bloody Hall
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
1979-04-03 | en
0.0
Elie Wiesel Goes Home
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?
1997-02-12 | hu
0.0
Moving Together
Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate collaboration between dancers and musicians, moving seamlessly between Flamenco, Modern, and New Orleans Second Line.
2023-02-11 | en
7.1
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
2003-10-09 | en
0.0
Petey & Ginger
When the global economy collapses the only true victors are those that weren't invited to the boom. Petey plays in a band and works in a pornography warehouse; Ginger works the night shift in a bar. From opposite coasts of the country, the two provide their personal takes on individual vs. collective crisis, together weaving a narrative that exposes a wasteland of shattered economic dreams, unfulfilled social promises and a bleak reality that only music and friendship can float freely above.
2012-10-01 | en
8.7
The Whale and the Raven
Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and The Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict. As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place home.
2019-09-05 | en
8.2
To See If I'm Smiling
Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. The frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank sees the young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories, and share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping.
2007-09-30 | en
7.3
Grey Gardens
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
1976-02-19 | en
5.4
Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
Robert De Niro, Sr., was a celebrated painter obscured by the pop-art movement. His life and career are chronicled in the artist's own words by his contemporaries and, movingly, by his son, the actor Robert De Niro.
2014-06-09 | en
6.7
Žižek!
ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even stopping at home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while Žižek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture.
2005-11-18 | en
6.3
One October
Reporter Clay Pigeon interviews New Yorkers in October, 2008.
2017-04-08 | en
6.4
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
2008-01-18 | en