In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.
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Taking inspiration from Peter M. Bracke’s definitive book of the same name, this epic 7-hour documentary (by the same team behind Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy) dives into the making of all 12 Friday the 13th films, with all-new interviews from cast and crew.
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler’s birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the sorrow and powerlessness of the immigrants who come here.
Around the calendar and around the world, “Endless Winter” follows skiers and snowboarders enjoying epic snow conditions form Alaska to Argentina and Jackson Hole to Japan. Soar with the world’s best aerialists at the Nissan Freestyle Exhibition at Breckenridge, Colorado; heli-ski in bottomless powder at Mike Wiegele’s in Blue River, British Columbia; and free ski with Olympic Gold Medalist Tommy Moe in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Visit the quintessential Alpine village of Ischgl, Austria; challenge the super-steeps of Las Leñas, Argentina; and trek across Bolivian glaciers above 19,000 feet. “Endless Winter” closes in Valdez, Alaska with the most stirring and unforgettable snowboarding segment ever filmed.
In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire’s death for a time (as chronicled in Daffy Dilly (1948), is the beneficiary for the deceased millionaire’s assets. But the millionaire’s will clearly stipulates that Daffy must use the money for the common good, by providing a service, and should Daffy think of pursuing selfish aims, the millionaire’s ghost will “repossess” his millions by making them disappear from Earthly existence. Under the pretense of community service, Daffy opens an exorcism agency and employs Porky Pig, Sylvester Cat, and Bugs Bunny to track and eliminate ghosts, ghouls, and other monsters, while Daffy secretly schemes to use his learned “ghost-busting” talents to rid himself of the millionaire’s nagging spirit.
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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