Films with: Keane, Brian

America's lost landscape the tallgrass prairie /

The rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history.

DVD 3996

Chinese Exclusion Act

Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.

DVD 13138

Citizen Kane 70th anniversary /

In Citizen Kane, following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. In RKO-281, Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

DVD 12750

Eugene O'Neill a documentary film /

Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.

DVD 9685

Into the deep America, whaling & the world /

The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

DVD 10304

Pilgrims

Commemorated each year at Thanksgiving, no chapter in American history has been more clouded in myth, legend and venerable cliche than the story of the Pilgrims.

DVD 12488

Tongzhi in love

Explores the lives of gay men in China and the pressures they face because they are expected to produce children to carry on their family's name.

DVD 3420

Warriors of Qiugang

Villagers in a remote district of central China take on a chemical company that is poisoning their water and air. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well.

DVD 8005