The Dream Is Alive

Réunion le volcan rouge

2018 · ★ 8

No synopsis available.

Italie, les îles romantiques

2022 · ★ 7

No synopsis available.

Glaciers - Melting Giants

2026 · ★ 8

Climate change is accelerating the melting of glaciers around the world. A study conducted across all continents sounds the alarm about the urgent need to preserve them.

Thermonuclear Art

2015

The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.

Sister Helen

2002 · ★ 6.5

In this emotionally compelling documentary, Sister Helen opens a private home for recovering addicts and alcoholics in the South Bronx after the death of her husband and two sons. The film's fly-on-the-wall technique succeeds in capturing the day-to-day existence of Sister Helen and the various residents of the home.

Developing Project Apollo

2009

Material surrounding the development of the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing Project. These rare programs provide a unique glimpse into the development of the program at Johnson Space Center in the mid 1960's. The programs tend to be project, operational and spacecraft specific.

From the Realm of the Crystals

1927

'Uit het rijk der kristallen' is one of several scientific films made ​​by J.C. Mol. In the film, the crystallization processes of various chemicals are shown. There are different versions of Uit het rijk der kristallen: the original silent film was given a soundtrack in the 1930s, and there is a colour version of the film which was made ​​using Dufay colour. A clip from the film, or other shots of identical crystallization processes, can be seen in Mol’s other films. The film was not only screened at educational and scientific presentations, but also resonated within avant-garde circles. The film was screened at the first show presented by the Harlem branch of the Filmliga. This was followed by a screening at Amsterdam’s Filmliga, and at ‘Studio 28’ in Paris. There, the film was screened as a ‘triptyque’, with three projectors side by side.

Elementary

2025 · ★ 6.1

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.

The Lovely Month of May

1963 · ★ 8

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

Black Suns: An Astrophysics Adventure

BLACK SUNS: AN ASTROPHYSICS ADVENTURE is a documentary about chasing eclipses and science dreams. It chronicles the lives of two globetrotting African American astrophysicists, Dr. Alphonse Sterling and Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, as they follow the two solar eclipses that occurred in 2012. Dr. Alphonse Sterling of NASA, stationed in Japan, had early success in the US, but left his home country to further cultivate his wide-ranging interests. Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi of the Florida Institute of Technology, is a scientist who beat the odds of poverty, and a poor early education, to get where he is today. The film is hosted by award-winning cultural astronomer Dr. Jarita Holbrook.

Freedom 7: America's First Space Flight

2006

In May 1961 the United States launched astronaut Alan Shephard on a 15 minute sub-orbital flight to begin America's manned spaceflight program.

Manned Spacecraft Center Reports 1964-69

Eleven Progress reports produced by the Manned Spacecraft Center (later the Johnson Space Center) in Houston. They cover January 1, 1964 through July, 1969. Offering unique insights into the operations behind the Gemini and Apollo programs, they are filled with rare footage documenting the 1960's at the center.