This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification in modern day US cities as well as the effects it had on its populace and industry..
A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom..
The country boy, despite the advice of a fellow-townsman, goes to the city, where, after an encounter with a motion picture holdup man, is engaged as property boy in a studio. His fellow-townsman comes to the city when he learns that his wife, from whom he has become estranged, is dying..
A starry-eyed teen and her best friend run away from their troubled homes in rural Alabama to The Magic City of Birmingham after her mother's death. When their new life in the city turns out to be far less glamorous than she hoped, Sara meets a charming photographer who offers her a dream career in modeling if she will run away one more time--only this time with him..
Global trends in major cities around the world have changed rapidly in the last several decades. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York. Told through the eyes of city planners, developerss, politicians, small business owners, landlords and tenants, the recent development boom in New York City is analyzed..
An extremely thoughtful and innovative documentary, which exists in several different formats with different timings, is dedicated to Jerusalem as a holy city for three Abrahamic religions at once..
Chaos has engulfed an industrial city whose residents greedily hunt creatures that can generate energy. Pier and Two, members of an expedition team, discover that under the sea exists a city that is a reflection of their tainted one – and it overflows with a stream of pure fuel. Inviting you to join this pair of adventurers, this deeply imaginative work impresses with its rich world-building and intrepid themes..
A mother takes quick action to save herself, her child, and her own mother from the horror of living with an abusive partner..
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss..
2008. USA. Directed by Bruce Gilden. From Magnum in Motion. 8 min. Bruce Gilden recalls the social documentary tradition of Walker Evans in The Troubled City, which gives voice to Detroit residents whose lives and homes were devastated by the 2008 subprime crises. Screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on July 1, 2017 as part of "Magnum Shorts: American Stories". Accompanies "Beyond the Frame: International Cinema by Magnum Photographers.".
Not far from the White House, the Capitol, and the National Mall lies a part of Washington, DC that the tourists never see and the mainstream media virtually ignores. At least three percent of DC is HIV positive, a staggering rate higher than parts of Africa. Behind all the stories of heartbreak, loss, and struggle there are also the incredible, encouraging stories of the people behind grassroots movements to extend education, combat stigmas, and spread hope..
Pippa and Victoria’s favourite pastime is skating. But there are new frustrating “NO SKATING” signs cropping up everywhere in the city. The two refuse to let this get them down and forge a plan to take back the city. They want to organise a street contest to find more allies – and to finally skate again!.
Scrappy, the city slicker, goes to visit his country cousin. Scrappy is a practical joker and carries an electrical buzzer in his hand, and water-squirting bouquets in his button hole. But his country cousin is not as dumb as Scrappy thinks, and some of Scrappy's jokes backfire on him..
This Traveltalk visit to China starts in Beijing, which at the time was officially called Peiping. Called the Imperial City, it consists of four separate districts. One of these is the famous Forbidden City, domicile of the Emperor. Later we take a train trip to see a portion the Great Wall..
St. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a “graphic, fluent and compact documentary” by Howard Thompson. Note: Sixteen prints were made for exhibition by schools, civic organizations, and church groups. For more on the filmmaker, see Shelby Coffey III, “Politics as an Art Form: Guggenheim and the Movies,” Washington Post, Feb. 9, 1969, 262..
