Films with: Hurwitz, Tom

African Christianity rising

"What does Christianity's explosive growth in Africa mean for the church and for the world? For over a decade, award-winning documentary film-maker, author and scholar James Ault has explored these questions, with guidance from leading thinkers on the subject, filming personal stories in Ghana and Zimbabwe in the range of churches found today in sub-Saharan Africa. He shows churches with ordinary human problems and returns some years later to find out what has happened to the people and churches portrayed." --back of container.

DVD 10130

Dancer

Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

DVD 12259

From Jesus to Christ the first Christians /

Explore the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus once lived and preached.

DVD 9943

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims examining the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison. Probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came to commit these atrocious acts.

DVD 5002

Have you heard from Johannesburg? Apartheid and the club of the West /

Six documentary stories chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on both the South African government and its international supporters, who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

DVD 6779

Hurricane of '38

Using archival film and photographs and interviews with survivors, this film chronicles the devastating path of the hurricane which struck New England without a warning on September 21, 1938, and found the population completely unprepared. It left almost 700 people dead and caused severe property damage.

DVD 12046

Paul Taylor, dancemaker

Documentary on Paul Taylor and his dance creations. Also includes full performances of Paul Taylor in Aureole (1962) and Scudorama (1963), Paul Taylor's and troupe members' biographies, and Taylor's notes on the inspirations behind his dances.

DVD 4156