The Musicians&#x27; Green Book: An Enduring Legacy

Hockshop Blues

Music

1937

Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

2008

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2008 PBS documentary film detailing Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell's 1993 retracing of Marco Polo's journey from Venice to Anatolia, Persia, India and China.

Dutch in Seven Lessons

DocumentaryComedy

1948

A film-within-the-film scenario involving a cameraman who's given a week to photograph the aerial highlights of Holland for a travelogue.

Tom Waits for No One

AnimationMusic

1979

In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."

Komeda, Komeda...

DocumentaryMusic

2012

A feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.

The Red Elvis

2007

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki

The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki

1998

A documentary film starring Hayao Miyazaki as he follows in the footsteps of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

2001

It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black people. It is the evocation of a man of reflection who refuses to close his eyes, of the man of action who devoted himself body and soul to the liberation struggle of the Algerian people and who will become, through his political commitment, his fight, and his writings, one of the figures of the anti-colonialist struggle. Before being killed at the age of 36 by leukemia, on December 6, 1961. His body was buried by Chadli Bendjedid, who later became Algerian president, in Algeria, at the Chouhadas cemetery (cemetery of war martyrs ). With him, three of his works are buried: “Black Skin, White Masks”, “L’An V De La Révolution Algérien” and “The Wretched of the Earth”.