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In 1955, fascinated by the ingenious pigeon hunting with wooden paddles and nets, Orson Welles directed the documentary The Land of the Basques. Today, from a mountain hut on the border between Navarre and France, Gerardo Damboriena, a veteran pigeon hunter, reveals to us in basque the secrets of this more than 700-year-old tradition, now on the verge of extinction.
The Agirre family, made up of Iñaki and Miren, and their children Aitor, Janire and Arene, is a wealthy family that enjoys a privileged position in Basque society. At the beginning of the story, a journalist interviews the perpetrator of the macabre murder of the owners of the well-known company “Talcos Agirre”. A call to the emergency services alerts the police to the event. The viewer is immersed in the intrigue surrounding the case until the identity of the murderer is revealed.
Jannick (14) loves soccer, but his eyesight is steadily declining. Since he can no longer see well enough to control the ball safely in sighted soccer, he joins a blind soccer team. As he trains hard for his first tournament, he feels increasingly like a part of the team. Slowly, he grows into the team and tries to accept his new situation.
One day in December 1955, Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup received an unexpected call on his red phone — a top-secret hotline — at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). It was the height of the Cold War, and Colonel Shoup was in charge of a radar system built to give early warning of a Soviet attack. To his surprise, it was a call from a child asking to speak to Santa Claus. At StoryCorps, Terri Van Keuren, Rick Shoup, and Pam Farrell—three of Colonel Shoup’s four children—share the tale of what happened next, and how their father created a beloved Christmas Eve tracking tradition.
Currently, 24 countries prohibit the termination of pregnancy under any circumstances. El Salvador has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. There, women accused of having an abortion can be sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide. Cautivas tells the story of Cristina Quintanilla, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for having an abortion. She was released from prison after four and a half years when her case was reviewed, with her life already ruined and a criminal record that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
Most Americans have never stepped foot on a farm or ranch or even talked to the people who grow and raise the food we eat. "Farmland" takes an intimate look at the lives of farmers and ranchers in their twenties, all of whom are now responsible for running their farming business. Learn about their high- risk/high reward jobs and passion for a way of life that has been passed down from generation to generation, yet continues to evolve.
The Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary that provides insight into the epidemic of arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers of Nagyrév, in 1929. The film is shot on location in the rural Hungarian village of Nagyrév, alternating between portraits of the surrounding landscape and first-hand narrations by the elderly inhabitants.
