Kony 2012 Part II: Beyond Famous / 2012

KONY 2012: Part II -- Beyond Famous offers a closer look at the LRA and explores the solutions put forward by leaders of the currently-affected areas of CAR, DRC, and South Sudan, where local communities continue to live under the constant threat of LRA violence. This generation has responded to the call to make Joseph Kony famous. Now we need to dig deeper and turn awareness into informed action.

World Famous Gopher Hole Museum / 2015

In a dark room seventy pairs of beady eyes stare back at you from behind illuminated glass boxes. Each a pair of tiny gopher eyes populating the dioramas of the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum. The museum opened in 1996, a double wide trailer in rural Torrington, AB (pop. 200) presenting taxidermized gophers dressed up as members of the community arranged in elaborate dioramas of daily life. World Famous Gopher Hole Museum is a short documentary that turns its lens on the town, the museum, and the people who live in both worlds. Invoking the Pyramids of Egypt, the film questions the human desire for legacy in the face of mortality. This struggle is visually represented through the Gopher Hole Museum, as the gophers are destroyed, taxodermied, and recast into an idealized version of the country town of Torrington.

Famous Authors: Robert Burns / 2008

Scottish poet Robert Burns’ works are known and loved wherever the English language is read. Burns touched with his own genius the traditional folk songs of Scotland, transmuting them into great poetry, and he immortalized its countryside and humble farm life. He was a keen and discerning satirist who reserved his sharpest barbs for sham, hypocrisy, and cruelty. His satirical verse, once little appreciated, has in recent decades been recognized widely as his finest work. He was also a master of the verse-narrative technique, as exemplified in Tam O’Shanter. His love songs, perfectly fitted to the tunes for which he wrote them, are, at their best, unsurpassed.

Famous Composers: Joseph Haydn /

Joseph Haydn is renowned for taking the established forms of the symphony and string quartet and shaping them into the powerful media for musical expression that they became thereafter. He brought symphonic traits to the piano sonata and was a master of chamber music. His masses and choral works also continue as standards in the concert repertory, and his operas are highly valued. These informative programs are a concise overview of the composer's life and times, filmed on location in the cities and places that influenced their works. Also included in a detailed list of each composer's most significant musical compositions.

Miss Barton's Famous Cakes / 2019

A dark comedy disguised as a thriller about a famed baker and the mysterious allure of her cakes.

Internet Famous / 2014

Amir (27) becomes internet famous by his videos where he picks fights with strangers on the street. He tries to justify his success in a portrait interview with a newspaper

The Victoria Girls in Their Famous Dancing Medley / 1928

The eight Victoria Girls dance, together and separately, to numbers that include “Diane”, “Rain”, and “Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella”.

Famous Land / 2017

The lives of three childhood friends growing up in the inner circle and how life, music and love shape there future.

Barbie: The Most Famous Doll in the World / 2017

An in-depth look into the icon that is Mattel's most famous product, Barbie. Mary Portas explores the production of the doll from manufacture to sale, and also meets some of its biggest fans.

FAMOUS AGORAPHOBIC WOMAN TELLS ALL! /

Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All! was originally shot in Portland, Oregon in 1999. The miniDV tapes the film was recorded on were lost, then found, then lost, then found again. The film tells the wacky story of Zoey and her mad quest for fame, which she finally achievies after a Sunset Boulevard-type twist.

Famous Explorers / 2015

Some sailed vast oceans and investigated rivers, while others climbed to the top of the world and reached for the stars. From Alexander the Great to Christopher Columbus, from Lewis and Clark to the first man on the moon, they all inspired a tradition of exploration that continues to endure.

Famous Hispanic Americans / 2005

The Hispanic culture is alive and thriving in music, art, fashion, sports, science, medicine, and government. In Famous Hispanic Americans we?ll take a look at the people who are in the news, in the movies, hitting home runs, and inventing new cures for diseases.

Famous Inventors and Inventions / 2015

Inventors and their wondrous invention have shaped society since the beginning of time, always searching for ways to make life easier, better, and more convenient. With each new discovery, inventors throughout the ages have harnessed energy that increased the speed of a journey and sent explorations to the far reaches of the Universe.

Winnie the Pooh The Most Famous Bear in the World /

Alan Titchmarsh celebrates the 90th birthday of Winnie-the-Pooh, the world's most famous bear. Alan travels to Cotchford Farm in Sussex and the Hundred Acre Wood to see the locations that inspired the A A Milne's poems and books.

Famous Diamonds / 2016

A kaleidoscopic search for desire trapped inside a volcano. Famous Diamonds is a short film that studies lies, love, and desire by weaving together a diary narrative and an exploding icon. Composed of various image-making techniques, Famous Diamonds is a hand-painted, hand-processed tour of the dissolution of one's internal image of desire.

Stories about Famous Americans / 2001

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to life in MARTIN'S BIG WORDS, a biography about beliefs and dreams and following ones heart. A reflective poetic tribute, ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET, the author remembers great figures in history that visited her home.

Status Quo - Famous In the Last Century / 2008

Famous Authors: George Orwell / 1996

Documentary - Best known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984, which condemn totalitarianism in all its forms, English writer George Orwell was born in India. Financially unable to pursue higher education in England, Orwell spent five years with the Imperial Police in Burma, a job that led to his hatred of imperialism. Through period documents, artwork and other archival material, this program delves into the life and work of the passionate social critic. -

Famous Fighters of World War II: Vol. 2 / 2001

Delving into the history, development and pivotal roles of four World War II Allied aircraft, this fascinating documentary features plenty of dramatic action footage as well as interviews with pilots who flew the planes in combat. Warbirds profiled in Volume 2 include the North American P-51 Mustang, the Vickers-Armstrong Supermarine Spitfire, the de Havilland DH98 Mosquito and the Hawker Hurricane.

The World Famous Kid Detective / 2013

Stanley Kid, kid detective, must catch the bad guys without getting caught himself. It's a kid-tastic adventure for Stanley Kid and his annoying kid sister, Nina!