Videoteca

location_onToronto, Ontario, CanadapublicCA

St. Patrick: Apostle of Ireland 2004 star_border 4.5
Go beyond the revelry of St. Patrick's Day and learn about the man himself. This dramatic documentary features reenactments of St. Patrick's life and deeds and explores the only writings of his known to exist: "Confession" and "Letter to Coroticus." Father Frank Fahey, of Ballintubber Abbey, and Michael Slavin, author of The Book of Tara, discuss the history of this important figure who brought Christianity to Ireland.

Prisoner of Paradise 2003 star_border 6.3
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death 2003 star_border 7.2
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

Hitler and I 2003
This film explores the difficulties in dramatizing the life of Adolf Hitler, of separating fact from fiction and truth from myth when the historical figure has become the poster child for evil.

The Trials of Henry Kissinger 2002 star_border 7
This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970. Based on a book by journalist Christopher Hitchens, the film includes interviews with historians, political analysts and such journalists as New York Times writer William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter.

The Dark Years 2007
Animated Canadian tales of the Great Depression as told by the staff of The Toronto Star.