Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nowhere to Go was the first Ealing film under the MGM arrangement not to receive a standalone release. Instead, MGM trimmed the film to a length of 89 minutes and released it in the UK on the bottom half of a double bill with the World War II submarine drama Torpedo Run (1958). The pairing premiered in the West End on 4 December 1958 at Fox's ...
Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. [1] His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time.
The book was adapted by Sarah Woods as a radio play, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 25 May 2016. News from Nowhere was an influencing factor in historian G. D. H. Cole's conversion to socialism. [15] The novel News from Gardenia (2012) by Robert Llewellyn was influenced by News from Nowhere.
Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 7, 1990) was an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising organization, the Club from Nowhere, which sold food at Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) mass meetings. [1]
No Place on Earth is a 2012 documentary film produced, written and directed by Janet Tobias, based on Esther Stermer's memoir We Fight to Survive. It was released theatrically in the United States on April 5, 2013.
Age 7 in America is a 1991 American documentary film produced by Michael Apted, co-produced by Vicky Bippart, directed by Phil Joanou, [1] and narrated by Meryl Streep. [2] It details the lives of 7-year-old Americans from across the continental United States , of varying social classes and ethnicities.
Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños discusses the little-known Orange County case that made California the first state in the nation to end school segregation – seven years before Brown v.
Both Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film strong recommendations. [2] Ebert wrote in his review: "This movie is so powerful precisely because it is so simple. The words are the words of the soldiers themselves, and the images are taken from their own home movies and from TV news footage of ...