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Homecoming is the first film to explore the rural roots of African American life. It chronicles the generations-old struggle of African Americans for land of their own which pitted them against both the Southern white power structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. Director Charlene Gilbert weaves this history together with a fond portrait of her own Georgia farming family into what she calls, "A story of land and love." Like...
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[Ezekiel] Experience the dislocation of the Babylonian Exile with a close reading of the book of Ezekiel’s perspectives on abandonment and homecoming. You’ll trace this movement from Chapters 1¬-32 (which castigate the people for abandoning God to idolatry) to Chapters 33-48 (which include stirring visions of renewal).
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Filmed over three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney's return from California to paint his native Yorkshire, outside, through the seasons and in all weathers. It tells the story of a homecoming and gives a revealing portrait of what inspires and motivates today's greatest living British-born artist.
5) Texas Style
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An intimate look at rural Texas culture and the traditional fiddle music played on its back roads. With spirited rhythms and guitar accompaniment, Texas fiddling is a crowd pleaser that has influenced western swing and folk music across the country. TEXAS STYLE brings you to the Homecoming, Rodeo, Reunion and Fiddling Contest in Gustine, Texas, where there are armadillo races, tobacco-spitting and frog hopping contests, cow chip throwing and young...
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In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Alexander McQueen makes a homecoming to London Fashion Week for Fall 2016, where Sarah Burton sends a superb, surrealist collection dripping in delicate drama down the runway. Daks reinterprets the dinner jacket, playing with velvet, lace, ribbon and a 2016 version of the brand’s House Check. Julien Macdonald celebrates sex appeal and seriously fit physiques for Fall 2016, with models dripping in luxurious,...
7) The Dive
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It is Thursday and another war is hitting the northern part of Israel hard. Three brothers reunite in their childhood kibbutz to bury their father. The youngest is to go to war two days later. While he seeks guidance from his older brothers, who have both experienced the battlefield, the homecoming soon spins out of control. Winner of a Jury Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Winner for Best Israeli Debut Film at the **Jerusalem...
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After 500 years Bosch’s paintings still shock and fascinate us. Delve into the vivid imagination of this true visionary. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings resonate with people now more than ever? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timeless creations come from? Discover the answers to these questions and more with this remarkable new film from EXHIBITION ON...
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In this issue of Videofashion Collections, check out the best of the Autumn/Winter 2016 London Fashion Week! Alexander McQueen makes a homecoming to London, where designer Sarah Burton sends a superb, surrealist collection dripping in delicate drama down the runway. Julien Macdonald celebrates sex appeal and seriously fit physiques for Fall 2016. Antonio Berardi pairs the ultra-tough with the ultra-feminine, in a darkly glamorous, red-carpet worthy...
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The 250th anniversary of Robert Burns's birth and Scotland's Year of Homecoming provide a thread that runs through yet another outstanding variety of high-class acts and performances that fill the castle esplanade with a truly memorable visual celebration of music and dance. This year's highlights include; the unique and unforgettable Massed Pipes and Drums, from home and overseas; the Royal Corps of Musicians from Tonga; the Pipes and Drums of Royal...
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"[A] passionate and astonishing speech, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail... This was a man delivering an attack on American foreign policy, and Britain's subscription to it, with a controlled anger and a deadly irony. And, paradoxically, it reminded us why Pinter is such a formidable dramatist. He used every weapon in his theatrical technique to reinforce his message. And, by the end, it was as if Pinter himself had been physically recharged...
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The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage,...
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In Traces of the trade: a story from the deep north, one family's painful but persistent confrontation with the continuing legacy of the slave trade becomes America's. Katrina Browne uncovers her New England family's deep involvement in the Triangle Trade and, in so doing, reveals the pivotal role slavery played in the growth of the whole American economy. This courageous documentary asks every American what we can and should do to repair the unacknowledged...
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