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- A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout, thirty years after their last match.
- Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.
- The images and memories are still familiar to those of a certain age - children in braces or iron lungs; the terrifying fear that washed over America each summer - a fear that out of nowhere a seemingly healthy child would catch polio and be crippled or killed. A fear so great that children were forbidden to play at pools, playgrounds and movie theaters. And, then, a medical miracle occurred, and with it, a medical superstar was made, Dr. Jonas Salk, whose name became synonymous with a vaccine that he initially requested not be named after him. Less widely known are the events that took place from 1949-1955, a six-year period that changed the medical community and the country forever; how a beloved, polio-afflicted President inspired a nation to send their dimes to the unlikely place of the University of Pittsburgh, and how there, an entire community pulled together to conquer the most feared disease of the 20th century.
- "Next Stop, from commuting to community: the pandemic in my hometown" is a documentary film about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ben Asciutto's hometown of Leonia, New Jersey. Thanks to the Pitt Honors College Creative Arts Fellowship, Ben spent the past year researching, interviewing and splicing together the twelve minute short film that would become "Next Stop". The documentary examines how a change in the NYC commuter culture has made an impact in his town socially, economically and physically and what those larger effects mean for suburbs across the country.
- John Berger and Tilda Swinton have been friends for decades. Their affinity is based upon a complicity of perception and a propensity for reflection, as well as the fact that they share a birthday. This compelling sequence of moments from a weekend spent together at John's home documents their rapport. Between cooking, sketching, shovelling snow and contemplating art, they converse about some of the themes that preoccupy them both - truth and silence, memory and transmitted experience. Besides constituting a new portrait of John Berger, this film prompts us to consider the spaces between the lines, the silences of history, and the pauses to take stock in a conversation. In other words, ways of listening.
- A look into the lives of those around us that we interact with everyday, yet barely know.
- Pitted between the beliefs of his parents and his brother's marriage, Dan struggles between rejecting his best friend and remembering the greater image.
- Theo Wilson time-travels back to 1889 to the bucolic river shores of Johnstown, Pennsylvania where the biggest flood in U.S. history is about to be unleashed. But how does the disaster happen? Wilson uncovers an elite, millionaires club that transforms the world's largest manmade lake into a personal playground for the posh by pushing aside much needed maintenance on the nearby dam. We discover how bad judgement and a passion for parties and fishing set the table for the tragedy, and learn what role the Transcontinental Railroad, heroic telegraph operators, and record rainfall play in creating a catastrophe that kills over 2,000 people.
- Comfort food, gourmet fish, and more in the famous steel town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.