Zeitgeist Films
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Richard Alpert, after being expelled from Harvard in 1963 for experimenting with LSD, morphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. This film visits Ram Dass in 2001 as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. Balances fascinating, often hilarious footage from the hippie era with contemporary material and interviews with Ram Dass and his associates.
4) Fire
Series
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2000, c1996
Language
English
Description
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage and [falls] into the supple embrace of Radha."--Container
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
6) Lumumba
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A family portrait of three generations of Georgian women in the city of Tbilisi. Eka obsesses over her physician son Otar, while the other two attempt to deal as best they can with Eka's burning desire to see him. A poignant, bittersweet story
10) Afghan star
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American idol-style series, Afghan star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to everyone across the country despite gender, ethnicity,...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. Their against-all-odds saga is brought to life through rare home movies, animation, dramatizations, and reminiscences from Don and many friends
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Türkçe
Description
During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But, when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back
14) Hive
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Albanian
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence, Dr. Riyadh struggles to understand...
16) La civil
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
The film unfolds with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico. Cielo learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico's societal corruption in an increasingly desperate effort to save her child.
17) Ballets Russes
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films/Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents an oral history of the Ballets Russes from the point of view of its many surviving performers. Dancers discuss working with George Balanchine. Includes performance footage
18) The corporation
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates
19) Aimee & Jaguar
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Two women meet during the Battle of Berlin (World War II). One is single, Aimee, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with four children. In war torn Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, a German soldier, discovers her relationship with Aimee, trouble ensues.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the fashion photographer, Bill Cunningham. For decades, Cunningham "has been chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columnns 'On the Street' and 'Evening Hours."--Container