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With her vivaciously innocent flair, there never was a pinup like Bettie Page. Through Page’s own words, we explore her extraordinary life. After a troubled childhood, Page challenged the repression of the 1950s with uncommon grace until she walked away at the peak of her career. A great cult icon, Bettie Page recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch- hunts to help launch America’s sexual revolution.
Single Spark Pictures
Beer is cheaper than water at America’s no. 1 party school. Playboy named Ohio University the top party school in the US. The school is situated in the tiny town of Athens, Ohio, and students say there isn’t much to do besides party and study. But who pays the price for this “work hard, play hard” lifestyle? We travel to Athens to spend a weekend on campus to learn more about its drinking culture. We meet the folks behind the town’s business of booze—and reveal the numbers that explain how a college towns like Athens thrive.
We reveal the extraordinary array of wild birds that grace Manhattan’s Central Park, and the equally colourful New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration. This film reveals that Central Park acts as a magnet for the millions of birds migrating along the Eastern Seaboard twice every year. Desperate for a rest-stop, the tiny birds funnel in to this oasis of nature amid the sea of steel and concrete.
Alternate Image Productions
Two things define Carl de Campos more than his blindness: his determination to prove that he can be independent and compete on an equal footing, and his love for his horse, Billy. This documentary follows Carl as he prepares for the gruelling Fauresmith Endurance Ride in South Africa. Carl had been the first blind person to complete the ride two years previously, and he’s determined to prove that it had not been a one-off.
Factuals: Biography and History Unit
BorderLine is a documentary that explores how life has changed for people living on the 5,000 km long Canada/U.S. border since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The film reveals the unexpected cultural, social, economic, and political fallout that’s occurred during the past decade and the growing concern that border security and the invasion of privacy has gone too far.
Bettie Page Reveals All
1 x 60’ or 1 x 101’, 2012, HD
Birders: The Central Park Effect
1 x 60’, 2012, HD
Black Out: 48 Hours At
America’s No. 1 Party School
1 x 60’, 2016, HD
Blondie’s “Parallel Lines” was the album that captured the spirit of 70s New York at a time of poverty, crime and an exploding arts scene. It sold 16 million copies. This is the story of that album, that time and that city, told primarily by the seven individuals who wrote, produced and performed it.
Fusion Original Production
Blind Trust
1 x 60’, 2011, HD
Blondie’s New York
1 x 60’, 2013, HD
Eagle Rock Entertainment/Smithsonian Networks
Tell Tale Productions
BorderLine
1 x 60’, 2012, HD
People & Culture