Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer is one of seven films in the "Were You There" series produced by Carol Lawrence (the others include The Black West, The Cotton Club, The Facts of Life, Portrait of Two Artists, Sports Profile
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The Vanishing Pioneer
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
Naked Pioneer
A musical battle mystery with a cheerful war and pure love, with circus attractions and a real Lyuboffyorlova, as well as the recorded phenomenon of the Blessed Virgin Mary and strategic night flights of an absolutely na
Pioneer Axe
A short film about axe making in Oakland, Maine. It documents the process of creating fine axes in the Emerson Stevens shop -- the last axe factory to operate in Oakland. Oakland was once a world-famous center of quality
O Pioneer
An anthem for the past and a love letter to the future, O Pioneer poetically reckons with and redefines the American pioneer. As a blacksmith forges connections, a seamstress hems raw edges, and a hospital chaplain mini
Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer
A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he originally found the two photo albums and since then he has had featured ex
The Pioneer
Song-jae immerses himself in scientific experiments and abandons all personal life. Song-sun commits suicide while opposing the marriage arranged by her parents.
The Pioneer
In a dystopian Japan, scientists have developed a new pill hailed as the ultimate forget-me-not. Although the miracle drug transforms society by warding off memory loss, it inexplicably has no effect on the narrator’s mo
The Old Pioneer
In this first entry in MGM's Happy Harmonies series, an old man tells a newsboy about his adventures with Native Americans in the Old West.
Stryker: Pioneer Mission
To explore sources of energy in space, the Stryker team is sent on a pioneering mission to an unknown alien planet where an unstoppable battle-ax mech awaits them.
Ritchey: Icon & Pioneer
Alex Stieda, the first North American to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, visits the legendary Tom Ritchey to learn more about his life, his inventions, and his legacy. In 1976, Tom Ritchey and his friends
Son of the Pioneer
Documentary outlining the expansion west the people who made it happen via the railways.
The Pioneer bugles are sounding
A film-concert. Featuring songs by Dunaevsky, Solovyov-Sedoy and other Soviet classics, performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers (artistic director Vladimir Badulin). Against a backdro
Pioneer Mary Pickford
The action takes place in the USSR of the 20s. Soviet pioneer Shura Klimova dreams of becoming as famous a movie star as America's favorite and Hollywood pioneer Mary Pickford. The pioneer organization of Shuri condemns
Dorothea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer
Dorothea Mitchell – A Reel Pioneer recounts in Mitchell’s own words the amazing life of a pioneer filmmaker. Seventy years later a group of local enthusiasts in Thunder Bay, reinvent the silent pictures, by finishing “Th
The American Pioneer
This film is a vintage docudrama about the American pioneers (led by Daniel Boone in 1773) heading westward into the new frontier, crossing the Appalachian Mountains into what would later be Kentucky. The film explains t
Woman The Pioneer
A suite of seven pioneer dances performed against the backdrop of Pine Valley.
Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
A true icon of British history, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) laid the foundations of modern nursing. A beautiful tribute to a pioneer whose integrity, selflessness and zeal are to be admired.
The Pioneer The Mysterious City
Qian accidentally got involved in a dispute over royal power. The royal family wanted to use Qian as to talk to Xi in exchange for the trust of the Huns. Qian and others used Erlang's power to crack the mysterious secret
Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist
Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through th