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- In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
- The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
- In the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists.
- Director Paul Saltzman returns to India as he reminiscences his time with the Beatles while they were on a spiritual retreat under the mentorship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968.
- The Soul of Kalaupapa: voices of exile celebrates the triumph and lives of the last remaining patients on Hawaii's former Hansen's disease settlement on the island of Molokai. Literally translated "flat leaf" or "flat plain," Kalaupapa has endured a century of pain and suffering, of obscurity and exile. Once called 'a prison fortified by nature' by poet Robert Louis Stevenson, more than 8,000 people were banned to this remote peninsula by the Hawaiian and American governments. Beginning in 1866 and for 103 years, those afflicted with Hansen's disease or leprosy were separated from their family and loved ones. When visitors are granted permission to enter Kalaupapa, even before they reach the Welcome sign, rows and rows of gravestones are lined to greet them, each one a memory of all those patients who endured isolation and suffered early deaths, because of a feared disease. Today, Kalaupapa harbors a small community, with only a few patients left to tell their story.
- This movie explores the history of electricity - from the first spark created by man's hand to today's industrial power plants. We meet scientists who changed the world, like Faraday, Franklin, and Tesla and we glimpse the future, as Solar Impulse becomes the first plane to complete a round-the-world flight powered only by the sun. With a mix of chalk animation, CGI, archival footage and spectacular aerials, the film also explores the challenges ahead: how to meet the growing energy needs of our industrialized world, while also protecting the health of our planet.
- The story of a group of children taken from their families to live as lepers and outcasts on the Island of Molokai but over time make it their own form of heaven.
- A story of the friendship between Olivia, who was exiled to Molokai in 1934 with Hansen's disease (leprosy), and Tim, a young man with AIDS.
- Director's Cut. Re-released. SIMPLE COURAGE tells the tragic story of Hawaii's leprosy epidemic (1865-1965) and the compassionate intervention of Belgium priest Father Damien de Veuster. The film's epilogue draws some parallels with how we are dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Simple Courage documents the treatment of leprosy victims in Hawaii in the 19th and early 20th century. More than 8,000 sufferers, mostly native, were banished to an isolated peninsula and practically abandoned. One man, however, in a simple act of courage, took it upon himself to bring comfort to these hopeless people. He was Father Damien, a Catholic missionary from Belgium, who spent sixteen years caring for the "untouchables" until he himself succumbed to the disease. He transformed their prison into a place of decency and respect. Using archival footage and moving interviews with survivors from the '30s and '40s, Simple Courage shows the emotional pain of banishment from their ancestral homes added to the ravages of the disease.
- This film follows residents of Kalaupapa afflicted with Hansen's disease as they traveled with the Franciscan Sisters to witness Mother Marianne Cope's canonization in Rome.
- A 31-part, 47-hour documentary series on the evolution of recorded popular music in the 20th Century, from the dawn of the ragtime era in 1899 (when sound recordings were a new commodity and sheet music outsold records for home piano consumption) to the start of 1972 (when recordings totaled more than two billion dollars in sales during that year).