When Gordon Gund went blind in 1970 at age 30 due to retinitis pigmentosa, he resolved to find a cure for the disease and created the Foundation Fighting Blindness. After decades of scientific research, a major breakthrough emerged, and this short film showcases the inspirational story of a 17-year-old Belgian boy who is a beneficiary of this work.
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Christine Vachon Executive Producer
Aaron Neu Director of Photography
Aaron Neu Editor
Tom Scott Director
United States 13 April 2017
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02 January 1972
Commercial and technical developments on British Rail: new freight loads, air conditioned carriages, an ultrasonic test-train for checking the permanent way, a lecture train, and a new station for motorists - all part of the railway scene in the 1970's.
02 January 1968
Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955 started to take effect, to log the many developments - new services, equipment, techniques - wherever these have been introduced.
07 July 1978
A high speed Inter-City train is the star of this impressionist film in which picture and music are brought together to enhance the mood and rhythm of the subject and hail the arrival of 125mph regular passenger services.
27 October 2014
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30 June 1896
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train.
11 March 2022
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10 February 2011
Interactive short documentary film from the NFB. The mining town of Pine Point in Canada's northwest territories has been flattened, leaving its former residents with only their memories.
02 January 1966
The City of Sheffield is renewing itself, but until recently Sheffield's railway network exemplified the confusion and inefficiency created by competitive railway expansion in Victorian times.
02 January 1971
Aspects of the precision and drama of locomotive manufacture, composed to form a lively pattern in picture and sound.
01 January 1969
An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.
01 January 1954
This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It successively shows the hatching of the eggs, the nutrition and growth of the larvae, swarming and underground penetration, the formation of the pupa, metamorphosis and organization of the adult insect.
22 October 2021
Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an unrecognizable and yet so familiar vision.
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28 September 2017
At a bus stop, provincial taxi driver Yura meets young beauty Svieta, and is hired to drive both her and her mother to Pryputni - a small Ukrainian village in the middle of nowhere.
14 December 2017
The story of reserve soldiers, who volunteered to take part in an anthrax vaccine experiment during their military service.
16 March 2017
Haunted by the chemical attacks that claimed the lives of his family, a Kurdish sniper flees his homeland in search of a better life in the United Kingdom.
23 June 2017
Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie camera caught a woman rising from a bench.
09 November 2017
In the artist colony Rocket Perelman ten people strive to live their version of freedom and independence - everybody for themselves and all together.
11 August 2017
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
26 October 2017
In the summer of 1976, a shared family yard becomes the setting, as the adults bicker over selling the garden and the kids are free to explore the mysterious neighboring lot.
24 March 2017
Oskar's deepest wish is to be able to ride on the prairie with his mother over summer break. But alas, everything turns out differently than expected and the 10-year-old is forced to spend his vacation on his grumpy grandfather's farm.
21 February 2017
A ride-share driver finds himself transporting the man who is secretly sleeping with his wife.
06 May 2017
A couple looks to mend their relationship and build a new home in the Azores.
06 February 2017
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