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Death Rides on Every Passing Breeze:   A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Wesley United Methodist Church
THE SPIRIT OF LADY MOODY      (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)
WE CAME A LONG WAY BY FAITH      (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)
FUGETSU-DO        (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)
The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth: Moon Talk
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Ogeechee Film Festival 2022

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf is a monument to the power of public protest and the potential of a democratic vote.

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf

In 1536, Captain Alcaraza of New Spain met a naked Spaniard who identified himself as Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. He had been missing for 7 years and was presumed dead, but according to La Relacion, his own written account of events first published in Spain in 1542, something else entirely had occurred.

Scholars agree that he had survived the shipwreck of the 1527 Narvaez Expedition, washing up near what today is Galveston,Texas and had spent 7 years living with the Capoque and Chorruco branches of the Karankawa tribe before traveling all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

Cabeza de Vaca entered the annals of colonial history as A Savior among Savages: A great explorer who led and taught the natives.

But what if that's not how the story really went?

This 49 minute documentary examines Cabeza de Vaca's time with indigenous North American peoples through the lens of gender.

Borders and Frontiers of Gender: Rethinking Cabeza de Vaca's Indigenous Encounters 1527-1536

In the days before personal computers, before the Internet and the worldwide web connected us to global information, before smartphones connected us to one another, before GPS guided our journeys. Before this technology was a part of everyday life, American astronauts explored new frontiers in space and on the moon. A half century ago, men on board the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space capsules talked to earth, navigated in space and to the moon and back, and exchanged critical data with mission control. How was this accomplished five decades ago? By the ingenuity and dedication of a company founded in the heartland of America - The Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

"Moon Talk", the second chapter (but first to be completed) of a three-part series, tells the little-known story of the people who designed the space communication systems and how they did it. These systems were technical feats that had never been done before, and played a crucial role in America's race to be first to land a man on the moon.

The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth: Moon Talk

The history of Wesley United Methodist Church located in Beaufort, South Carolina and the research to try and better understand their 200 year old cemetery using Ground Penetrating Radar.

Death Rides on Every Passing Breeze:   A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Wesley United Methodist Church

A photographer confronts the collective amnesia of America, and reveals the obliterated past of the Wild West.

Far West, l'Histoire oubliee.

Maury Voices is comprised of four short pieces featuring individuals whose lives represent this Tennessee county in the 1800's. A First Lady, two former slaves, a daughter of the Rippavilla home, and an Athenaeum schoolgirl speak of the upheaval brought by war and the unexpected lives they led following the conflict.

Maury Voices

Throughout the South of the United States, tempers flare up as confederate monuments are targeted for removal. During a 6000 mile road trip through the former Confederacy, this documentary explores the legacy of Southern Heritage. A myriad of supporters and opponents is met along the way: White, Black, North and South. Each with their own view on what's worth remembering and preserving. Is there a way past these crossroads?

Monumental Crossroads

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a very special relationship with the State of Georgia. This compelling documentary describes the mutual benefits that the friendship provided to both the President and the people of Georgia.

A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia
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Ogeechee Film Festival 2021

THE BALLAD OF JOHN HENRY is an ambitious 50-minute documentary film analyzing how an ex-slave became one of America’s greatest tall tale heroes.

The heroic legacy of John Henry speaks to the needs of most Americans. His fame today rests on a single moment. The competition against the steam drill may have sealed his fate, but he died to preserve the dignity of the common man. Dozens of men by the same name have been attributed as the real-life tall tale hero. Only one person, a convict, is the most obvious choice according to the historical evidence.

Based on Scott Reynolds Nelson’s book, Steel Drivin’ Man, this story presents a new perspective on a famous tall tale often taught in classrooms around the country. The film sheds new light on an unjust legal system developed after the Civil War replacing slavery with a new labor-based economy, the convict lease program.

THE BALLAD OF JOHN HENRY     (To play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

The true story of Melbourne’s radical Chinese cabinetmakers whose militant union defied racial stereotypes and struck fear into the White Australian establishment.

DO NOTHING AND DO IT WELL      (To play film click circle button to the right. (to add to watchlist, click + button below it)

The legacy of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore still resonates today. But what of those from the island who fought on battlefields thousands of miles from home? Forgotten Heroes follows the stories of four courageous individuals from Singapore who found themselves in far-flung theatres of war. From the blood-soaked beaches of Northern France to the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, from the violent skies over southern China to the brutalities of a Japanese POW camp in Java, this documentary recounts the incredible true stories of four Singaporeans who lived through turbulent times. Forgotten Heroes features an interview with one of the world's last remaining “Flying Tigers”, along with moving testimonies from our heroes’ families and leading WW2 experts. Stylish cinematography and bold animation bring these daring wartime stories to life.

FORGOTTEN HEROES    (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

"We had to live the American Dream twice."

Fugetsu-Do is more than a little candy store; since 1903 it has been an anchor for the Japanese-American community in Little Tokyo, centered at the heart of Downtown LA. At over 115 years old, this family-run business is one of the oldest in Los Angeles and its history is emblematic of the immigrant experience in America. It hasn’t been easy and yet, as its owner Brian Kito says, “the shop itself has an overwhelming desire to exist - it wants to survive.”

The ingredients of the brightly-colored pieces of mochi-gashi that line Fugetsu-Do's wood-paneled cases include so much more than rice flour and sweet bean paste. Mixed inside are stories of joy and pain, tradition and racism, legacy and loss. Survival is never easy; it’s complicated and messy, full of contradictions and surprises. In the three generations that the Kito Family has been running Fugetsu-Do, the store has become a memory bank for the community and the stories the line its walls could not be more relevant in today's America.

FUGETSU-DO        (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

For filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi, growing up half Japanese/half Italian in a white Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, was a difficult experience. In Good Luck Soup, Hashiguchi sets out on a journey to discover how the rest of his multi-racial family made sense of their lives and their Japanese American heritage.

Good Luck Soup

Saving a pristine island to share with others, Sandy West created a hospitable and sustainable community of interdisciplinary artists, scientists and authors with the hope that an idea would be generated to advance the human condition, much like Archimedes’ fulcrum.

ISLAND VISION      (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

When WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.

The unprecedented death toll of the First World War generated a burden of grief. Particularly disturbing was the vast number of dead who were “missing” - their bodies never found. This short documentary explores two unsung humanitarian responses to the crisis of the missing of World War 1 – the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war work of the Australian Graves Detachment and Graves Services. It tells of a remarkable group of men and women, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, who laboured to provide comfort and connection to grieving families in distant Australia.

THE MISSING        (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men.
This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov.
A film that I owed to my nation.
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war.
Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are
victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world.
The film also contains memories of soldiers who survived the camps, writen by a Dutch journalist Henri Aber in 1919. The descendants of soldiers from Serbia also speak in the film.
The topic of Serbian prisoners and internees from the First World War is a neglected topic and even today, during the first centenary of the end of the First World War, they are completely forgotten and this injustice has not been corrected. From the time of the war, it seems that they could not fit into that, say, warrior, liberation narrative, where, above all, a soldier with a rifle in his hand was valued. If you look at any Serbian military monument, it is usually a soldier holding a rifle that is raised high. We have only a couple of sculptures of Serb civilians who died ... there are no monuments or they are very rare that generally concern the role of civilians, let alone civilians who were in slavery.
But, as defined by the military legislation, a prisoner is someone who, by force of circumstances, ended up in captivity and he continues to perform his military duty. We can say the same for the civilian internees, that they were citizens of the Kingdom of Serbia who remained to be citizens even though they were faced with these completely unexpected and terrible opportunities. It is very unfortunate that, practically, for a whole century, they remain outside the collective memory of the Serbian people, even though it is a very dramatic suffering. I just think that these people were unfairly marginalized and almost thrown out of our general perception of the First World War.
The film stars Lordan Zafranović, Jelena Ćirić, priest Srdjan Jablanović, etc.
and the narrator is Jim High (english version), Jan Kacer (czech version), Tihomir Stanic (serbian version), Mihal Fedorov (russian version).
Duration 59 minutes.
Director: Sanjin Mirić (born in Visoko, BiH, permanent residence in the Czech Republic)
Production: RODOLJUB z.s. Czech-Serbian Friendship Association Prague

SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS      (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

Lady Deborah Moody was called "a dangerous woman.”
She was thrown out of her English community in Massachusetts for refusing to silence her opinions and defying the patriarchal authorities of the Church of Salem.
With her bold courage and unwavering determination, Lady Deborah Moody became the first woman to establish a town in English and Dutch North America in 1645.

THE SPIRIT OF LADY MOODY      (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

Catholic Hill, formerly known as Thompson’s Crossroads, is an area steeped in history. The predominant feature on the landscape is the 1935, gothic-revival inspired St. James the Greater Catholic Church and its recently renovated 1901 school house.
The first church on the spot was dedicated in 1832 and burned in 1856. Very little is known from that point until the 1890’s when it was learned that a group of former slaves and their descendants, with a vibrant and thriving faith, was worshipping in the area. Soon a new church and school was built. While mass was celebrated by itinerant priests twice a month at the church, the leadership flourished under the dedicated men and women of the church striving to preserve and strengthen the faith of the community on an everyday basis.
The present church, which was built in 1935, is home to a new generation of followers maintaining their strong Catholic Faith. Today’s congregation works tirelessly to preserve both the memory of those who came before them and safeguard the legacy for many generations to come.
This film focuses on the religion in South Carolina, early Catholicism, slavery, the history of St. James the Greater, and its importance to the Catholic Hill Community.

WE CAME A LONG WAY BY FAITH      (to play film click circle button to the right. To add to watchlist, click + button below it)

In 1921 the first expedition to Everest departed from Darjeeling, India. On this all-British Expedition was a lone Canadian: WWI veteran, surveyor and climber Major Oliver Wheeler.

Retracing that first Everest expedition of a century ago, his great-grandson will rediscover a brave but almost forgotten Canadian’s incredible adventure.

Wheeler's Everest
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