
Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President
Documentary
Overview
The first major documentary about CALVIN COOLIDGE, the man Ronald Reagan called “one of our most underrated presidents." The year 1923 brought one of the most unusual presidential inaugurations in American history. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was asleep at his childhood home in rural Vermont when the news came in: President Warren Harding was dead. By candlelight, Coolidge’s own father, a notary public, administered the oath of office to the new president. A century later, Coolidge stands as perhaps America’s most misunderstood and unjustly neglected president. A landmark new documentary film changes that
Top Cast


Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
Self
Kristi Noem
Self


Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Self (Archive Footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (Archive Footage)
Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown
Self
Janice Rogers Brown
Self
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Self (Archive Footage)
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Self (Archive Footage)
George Nash
George Nash
Self
George Nash
Self
Edith Jones
Edith Jones
Self
Edith Jones
Self
John Dumville
John Dumville
Self
John Dumville
Self
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Self (Archive Footage)
Warren G. Harding
Self (Archive Footage)


Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Self (Archive Footage)
Herbert Hoover
Self (Archive Footage)
Terence Aselford
Terence Aselford
Narrator
Terence Aselford
Narrator
Similar Movies

APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are optional and rules are made by democratic vote. Summerhill, founded 90 years ago by A. S. Neill, was the first free school - now there are more than 200 worldwide. Approaching the Elephant chronicles a free school in the making - spanning two years, from Teddy McArdle's first day when there were no rules or classes, through the changing of the school's director and the expulsion of a student by democratic vote, to the last day of the second year, APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is an intimate portrait of a small group of people from a range of educational backgrounds, come together to forge a place where children are treated as equals, at liberty to spend their days however they please.

A shocking BBC investigation into serious sexual abuse allegations by Mohamed al Fayed, the former owner of luxury department store Harrods. The Egyptian billionaire businessman, who died last year aged 94, is accused of multiple counts of rape and attempted rape by the women who worked for him. At the time of many of the alleged attacks, Al Fayed was the owner of London’s luxury department store Harrods, the iconic Ritz Paris hotel and English football club Fulham FC. The BBC has heard testimony from over 20 survivors, with 13 featured in the film. With horrifying accounts of abuse that spanned Al Fayed’s 25-year reign at Harrods, for the first time the scale and seriousness of these allegations are exposed, as well as the system that helped cover it up. A web of corruption and fear that extended from the shop floors to the highest levels of the organization is revealed. Brave survivors now break their silence.

Six people, one room, one night, one game, a lot of sensuality and much to discover. A Film that shows how bodies and minds might meet when allowed to. Get involved within a stimulating experiment, somewhere between aesthetic statement and real venture, between pornographic art and the attempt to reposition sexuality within dialogue and actions.

A featureless street on an industrial estate in Bonn – desolate, unfinished and inconspicuous. The street bears the name of a child. It is meant to commemorate the racially motivated terrorist attack that this child did not survive. A public memorial, consigned to no man’s land. A film against collective amnesia.
















