Natural history

Nature's Whisper (2013)

Actors: Ayan Pratap (director), Ayan Pratap (editor), Danny Buonsanto (actor), Julia Mironova (actress),

Genres: Adventure, Short,

Bach of the Antarctic (2009)

Actors: Donald Sosin (composer), Ben Hillman (director), Ben Hillman (editor), Ben Hillman (writer), John Van Couvering (actor), Santiago de la Vega (actor), Laura Whittemore (miscellaneous crew), Art Ford (actor), Brian Hallas (actor), Darrel Schoeling (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Music, Short,

Bach of the Antarctic (2009)

Actors: Donald Sosin (composer), Ben Hillman (director), Ben Hillman (editor), Ben Hillman (writer), John Van Couvering (actor), Santiago de la Vega (actor), Laura Whittemore (miscellaneous crew), Art Ford (actor), Brian Hallas (actor), Darrel Schoeling (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Music, Short,

Arctic: Change at the Top of the World (2008)

Actors: John McCarthy (composer), Charles Annenberg Weingarten (actor), Charles Annenberg Weingarten (director), Katy Garretson (producer), Katy Garretson (writer), Liz Marks (producer), Mary Ellen Thomas (actress), Tom Pollak (producer), Katie Flint (editor), Roger Jackson (producer), Hayley Shephard (actress), Jacques Sirois (actor), Andrew Medeiros (actor), David Martin (actor), Scott MacPhail (actor),

Plot: Philanthropist and filmmaker Charles Annenberg Weingarten and the Explore team set out on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to the Arctic. Steeped in history and tradition, the Arctic is a cold, vast and astonishing expanse of land and sea at the top of the planet. Join Charlie and Iqaluit Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik as they meet the region's people, learn about Inuit culture and explore how their fragile ecosystem and time-honored way of life are faring in the face of global warming.

Keywords: annenberg-foundation, arctic, explore, philanthropy, travel
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: Never stop learning

Arctic: Change at the Top of the World (2008)

Actors: John McCarthy (composer), Charles Annenberg Weingarten (actor), Charles Annenberg Weingarten (director), Katy Garretson (producer), Katy Garretson (writer), Liz Marks (producer), Mary Ellen Thomas (actress), Tom Pollak (producer), Katie Flint (editor), Roger Jackson (producer), Hayley Shephard (actress), Jacques Sirois (actor), Andrew Medeiros (actor), David Martin (actor), Scott MacPhail (actor),

Plot: Philanthropist and filmmaker Charles Annenberg Weingarten and the Explore team set out on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to the Arctic. Steeped in history and tradition, the Arctic is a cold, vast and astonishing expanse of land and sea at the top of the planet. Join Charlie and Iqaluit Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik as they meet the region's people, learn about Inuit culture and explore how their fragile ecosystem and time-honored way of life are faring in the face of global warming.

Keywords: annenberg-foundation, arctic, explore, philanthropy, travel
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: Never stop learning

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

Actors: Julie Hansen (miscellaneous crew), Jodie Foster (producer), E. Michael Hewett (miscellaneous crew), Ken Meyer (miscellaneous crew), Geoffrey Ryan (miscellaneous crew), Jodie Foster (actress), Jena Malone (actress), Marco Beltrami (composer), John Watson (producer), Pen Densham (producer), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Michael Harding (actor), Pamela Williamson (miscellaneous crew), Emile Hirsch (actor), Richard Bronskill (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In mid-1970s Savannah, two bright but rebellious boys, Francis Doyle and Tim Sullivan, fight boredom, hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningful beyond the walls of their parish school. Francis, an exceptional artist whose imaginative forays into a fictional universe of good and evil fill his notebooks with comic-book imagery, creates a netherworld of superhero alter egos for the two boys. When the ultra-strict Sister Assumpta seizes their artwork one day, the boys embark upon an obsessed trail of revenge that ultimately changes their lives.

Keywords: 1970s, 69-sex-position, altar-boy, anchovy, anesthetic, angel, arm-cast, arm-ripped-off, artist, atomic-bomb
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: One of the most inventive, funny coming-of-age films in years! Forgive me father, for I am 14. Trouble is Their Only Defense Against Boredom

Quotes:

Francis Doyle: That's all?::Newsie: Man, that's enough to melt an elephant.::Tim: Excuse my friend. He thinks he wants to melt two elephants.

Sister Assumpta: Blake. A little advance don't you think?::Tim: Not really Sister. It's written simply enough for a six year old.::Sister Assumpta: So are the instructions for a handgun.

Tim: I burned all the skin off my hands. I can barely curl my fingers now.::Francis Doyle: There goes your sex life.

Sister Assumpta: But make no mistake, the culprits will be fingered. I will finger the culprits.

Joey Anderson: It's Major Screw going at it with an evil warrior babe.::Tim: Going at what?::Joey Anderson: 69.::Wade Scalisi: That looks more like 47.

Naturalist: The head of the sexually aroused adult gobbler can change into a variety of shades of red, white and blue. Yeah, it's a very patriotic bird.

Newsie: Hey it's the altar boys. Here to get altered?

Francis Doyle: Damnit Sullivan, I don't believe it, we just knocked out a cougar with a K-Mart blow gun!

Tim: Alright, seems like the perfect spot for deciding what you really want in life.::Francis Doyle: My own comic book bigger than anything that Marvel or DC has.::Tim: No, I'm talking about what you really want right now, like revenge on the one legged bitch in black and white!::Francis Doyle: [yells] Margie Flynn!::Tim: Shit. I knew it, Margie Flynn.

Margie Flynn: I used to let Donny do... things to me.::Francis Doyle: What kind of things?::Margie Flynn: Everything.::Francis Doyle: Wait, Donny who?::[pause]::Francis Doyle: Donnie, your brother?

Great Bear Rainforest (2001)

Actors: James Cromwell (actor), George Burdeau (producer), Marc Griffith (editor), Marc Griffith (producer), Geoffrey B. Holland (producer), Geoffrey B. Holland (writer), Rebekah Jorgensen (director), Ian McAllister (actor),

Plot: A one-hour documentary about the breathtaking beauty of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, and its imminent destruction by the logging industry. The two-million hectare Great Bear Wilderness is the largest intact area of ancient temperate rain forest remaining in the world. A small but dedicated group of people, working through a handful of grass-roots organizations, are lined up against forces determined to destroy the integrity of this unique biological wellspring. Only 0.2 percent of all the land on Earth ever supported temperate rain forest. Half of that is already gone. A quarter of what is left is in British Columbia. Of the province's original 353 rainforest watersheds, only 69 are intact. What remains are under direct threat by commercial interests. Logging companies, armed with permits from the government responsible for British Columbia, intend to reap this natural resource by using totally-destructive, clear-cut logging techniques over the next 5-10 years. The forests are being logged primarily for export to the United States, Japan, and Europe. The documentary features spectacular and extremely rare footage of the Kermode bear, also known as the Spirit Bear (more rare than the Chinese Panda). It is a very rare sub-species of black bear that has pure white and can only be found in The Great Bear Rainforest. We meet the First Nation people that have called the rain coast home for a thousand generations, consider the land a sacred living temple, nature's gift to humanity. The documentary tells the story through the eyes of the Academy-award nominated actor, James Cromwell. Through his visit to this area, we connect with the magnificent beauty of The Great Bear Wilderness. A rich coastal marine environment combined with a mild, humid climate makes this area a true natural paradise. We see splendid roaring waterfalls, meadows carpeted with wildflowers, moss-covered stands of ancient trees, and rocky unspoiled coastlines. From up close, we watch grizzlies, eagles, black bears, and a pack of grey wolves fatten themselves on salmon that fill watershed streams in Summer, and early Fall. The temperate rainforest on the West Coast of British Columbia in Canada, has been characterized as the most biologically productive land on Earth. Thousand year old cedar trees, along with Douglas Fir, and Sitka Spruce nearly three hundred feet tall, reign over a landscape that is home to thousands of species of plants, birds, insects, and other animals. Streams that teem with salmon returning to spawn support well-fed populations of grizzly bears, orca, whales, black bears, and eagles. The Great Bear Rainforest documentary is a warning beacon revealing the imminent threat to one of Earth's most important biological treasures.

Keywords: bear, british-columbia-canada, canada, conservation, first-nations, grizzly-bear, logging, nature, rain-forest, salmon
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: James Cromwell examines the imminent threat to one of the planet's most important biological treasures.

Black Fury (1953)

Actors: Howard Jackson (composer), William Lava (composer), David DaLie (actor), Ted Saizis (writer), Ted Saizis (producer), Ted Saizis (director), Vincent Saizis (director), Vincent Saizis (editor),

Plot: An independent production picked up for distribution by the shorts department of Warner Brothers. Directed and photographed by the Florida-based Ted and Vincent Saizis, who confined most of their work (features and shorts) to the southeastern United States (and most of that done in the Okeefenokee park and swamp areas of Georgia and Florida), and some second-unit work for many major companies in other areas of the U.S. This one involves the tracking down and killing of a rogue bear, in Georgia's Okeefenokee Swamp Park, by a party of swamp men led by naturalist David Da Lie.

Keywords: 1950s, alligator, bear, chase, danger, death, environment, environmental-issues, environmentalist, exploitation
Genres: Action, Adventure, Short, Sport,
Taglines: THE WILDERNESS AT ITS MOST DANGEROUS (original ad - all caps) MAN AGAINST THE TERROR OF THE SWAMP (original ad - all caps)