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San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson, forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide.

This Televisa of Mexico documentary series, produced here by the Independent Production Fund, recounts the struggle for power during the Mexican Revolution of 1910, using archival footage and photographs of the contenders. This program introduces Álvaro Obregón, farmer, general, and president whose social, educational and cultural reforms induced a cultural awareness of Mexican history illustrated by the Mexican muralists. As General of the Constitutional...

This film features Europe during her Vertigo Years, from 1900 - 1914. This pulsating era of creativity and contradictions manifested itself in different ways across Europe. This first part of a three-part series highlights the scientific marvels and technological achievements in Paris and Germany, the cultural and social upheavals in Great Britain and Vienna, and the political revolution sparking in Russia. This historical narrative is based on the...

The focus of this exploration of Picasso is not his life, but his work, revealed as a series of interventions in early 20th century Europe. Christopher Green demonstrates how these interventions confront issues that are still relevant today - race, cultural difference, modernity and sexuality.

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? Philosopher-journalist Lévy spent a year traveling in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville. The result is a fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the nature of American patriotism, the coexistence...