The Birth of Sake: The Craft of Making Saké
Japan's Yoshida Brewery is one of the few saké breweries that still uses the laborious and time-consuming traditional method.
The Birth of Sake: Filmmaker Interview
Filmmaker Erik Shirai discusses the making of the film The Birth of Saké.
The Birth of Sake: Trailer
Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to 70, spend six months in nearly monastic isolation as they follow an age-old process to create saké, the nation's revered rice wine.
EXIT - Trailer
EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse offers an escape from the doomsday thinking that is ruining our collective imaginations. An experience for smartphones composed of a suite of interconnected nonfiction stories, EXIT dares users to entertain a shocking possibility: that mankind may survive (and even thrive) beyond the challenges that await us in the future.
Iris: Rare Bird of Fashion
Iris styles mannequins for the "Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel" exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Iris: Big & Bold & Pizazz
"Color can raise the dead," says Iris. She talks about her style as being big, bold, pizazz, and out of the box.
Iris: Clothing as Art
Curator Harold Koda for the Metropolitan Museum of Art describes how he met Iris and how they organized the exhibit of Iris's collection in 2005.
Iris: Individuality - Breaking Rules
Iris encourages people to express their individualism through their wardrobes. She states, "I like individuality. It’s so lost these days. There’s so much sameness. Everything is homogenized. I hate it."
Iris: Trailer
Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades.
Pervert Park: Transition and Harassment
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
Pervert Park: Monitoring and Internet Crimes
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
Pervert Park: Trailer
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
The Look of Silence: News Report
Adi, whose brother Ramli was killed during the genocide, watches footage from the NBC news report. From the year following the Indonesian “purge” of communists, the clip reports on the violence, including the resulting benefits for Goodyear Tire and Rubber (a U.S. company).
The Look of Silence: Trailer
In this Oscar-nominated film, winner of more than 50 awards, an optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965 Indonesian genocide. He confronts them while testing their eyesight and demands they accept responsibility.
Of Men and War: Trailer
At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families on their paths to recovery as they attempt to make peace with their pasts, their loved ones and themselves.
Of Men and War: Being Home
We hear from the soldier and his wife what it’s been like since he’s returned home from war.
Of Men and War: The Undertaker
The soldier graphically describes processing a truckload of bodies and how, in order to preserve his sanity, he had to stop seeing them as people with friends and wives and children.
Of Men and War: Surviving a Mortar
A soldier recalls what he was thinking as he was lying on the ground, staring at the sky after being hit by a mortar.
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