Short & Powerful
Some of the best filmmaking happens in the shortest form. These are the films that don't waste a frame — tight, purposeful, and powerful. From Academy Award winners to festival discoveries, this is storytelling at its most concentrated.
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To Auschwitz & Back: The Joe Engel Story
At 14, Joe Engel was taken by the Nazis. He would never see his parents again. But Joe refused to become a statistic. He escaped a Death Train at 17, survived Auschwitz and Birkenau, and went on to build a full life as a teacher, community leader, and philanthropist in Charleston, South Carolina....
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The Accountant
A struggling farmer brings in a hard-drinking, chain-smoking backwoods accountant with a serious talent for numbers, and together they stumble into something that goes way, way beyond the farm's balance sheet. Winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Short Film, The Accountant is 40 minutes of p...
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From the Holocaust to Hollywood: The Robert Clary Story
Robert Clary was twelve years old and singing on French radio when the world he knew ended. In 1942, the youngest of fourteen children was taken by the Nazis — along with most of his family. He survived Ottmuth, forced labor, and Buchenwald. Twelve members of his family did not. Liberated on Apri...
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Slice Of America: Charred In The Florida Sun
Jimmy Fantin grew up on New Haven's legendary apizza — and couldn't imagine life without it. So when he landed in the small coastal town of Stuart, Florida, he did what any true believer would: he built an oven and opened Fantini's. With loyal Connecticut snowbirds lining up for a taste of home a...
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Pershing's Paths of Glory
General John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing earned his nickname serving alongside the Buffalo Soldiers — and wore it with pride. From the frontier to San Juan Hill to the trenches of World War I, Pershing's career spanned decades of American conflict and transformation. In this documentary, a diverse g...