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- Whispers from the Dead explores the creation and history of the famous 37-acre Necropolis cemetery near the City Centre in Glasgow Scotland. The cemetery is a window to how Victorian-era deaths were treated in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United Kingdom. Scottish society and the divisions of class, even in death, are on full display.
- On Feb. 21, 1945, the crew of the Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax bomber NP711 returned from a bombing raid in Germany when it crashed into a hillside near Leistadt, killing the entire crew. The cause of the crash is examined.
- Three generations of Saudi women reflect on their lives through the decades of dramatic regional cultural, political and religious changes. Ajyal (Generations) begins when Saudi Arabia launched its first school for girls in 1960 and continues through the post-9/11 era.
- Dr. Laura Elizabeth Forster was an Australian scientist, physician and surgeon renowned for her research in diseases. Coming from a military family, she had a sense of adventure and duty to her country and her adopted country of England. She volunteered to serve as a surgeon at the front lines when the First World War broke out in 1914, but the Royal Army Medical Corps refused to allow women surgeons in operating theaters near the front. Rather than submit to the RAMC's whims, she embarked on a nearly three-year journey to Belgium, France, the Caucasus, Turkey and Russia. She took charge of hospitals to provide critical care to soldiers and refugees alike. The strain of travel under harsh conditions would ultimately lead to her death in Russia in 1917.
- ShortWilliam Nicholas Selig broke into motion pictures in the late 1890s and was responsible for many innovations that remain in use today by filmmakers. He created the concept of a documentary film, the serial, an early version of the Hollywood star system, the classic Hollywood Western narrative, using animals as actors and a factory-like system to mass produce films. He also produced what is believed to be the first footage of a kiss between two black actors without diminishing their worth as human beings. Yet his relationship with ethnic minorities, including indigenous peoples, in film was fraught with racial stereotypes. This film examines these conflicts.