Canada Vignettes: Helen Law

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Lucy Walker

Cast

Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso

Tan Pin Pin employs a strictly external perspective for this portrait of her hometown, the tropical economic powerhouse of Singapore, interviewing political exiles in London, Thailand and Malaysia, who are to this day unable to return home.

Runtime

1h 10m

Director

Tan Pin Pin

Cast

Swee Chai Ang, Sun Wing Chan, Mr. & Mrs Hee Kim Tan

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper

Cast

Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, John Milius

For decades, American touring ice shows dominated family entertainment with their dazzling production and variety acts. This documentary honors them through interviews and archival footage, and depicts one skater's quest to keep this history alive.

Runtime

1h 12m

Director

Keri Pickett

The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century.Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple.

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Cast

Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Steven Spielberg