Series
OVID is home to an eclectic array of TV and film series: from two British sketch-comedy series made in 1967 and 1968 - both precursors to Monty Python, to a quirky Australian series of short animated films on football (soccer!)
Recently we've added the second season of our most popular drama series, MAISON CLOSE. And of course the greatest strength of OVID's collection is documentaries and a recent addition is WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE about the rise of the religious right in American politics. So there's a lot to choose from for those of you inclined to dig-in. (Note the effort to avoid using the word "binge.")
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Teat Beat of Sex
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In fifteen two-minute episodes, a woman reveals her most secret thoughts on intimate matters. In a humorous style that is both educational and shocking, these short animations on sex from a woman’s point of view manage to be both erotic and entertaining. Find out if “size really matters” and lear...
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Fonko (series)
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The great music revolutions of our times have come from Africa, and the next one is brewing there right now. Soon, our local music industries will be swamped with it.
From the award-winning makers of 'Concerning Violence' and 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975', narrated by Neneh Cherry and Fel...
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No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism
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The Russian Revolution. The Spanish Republic. The Paris Commune. The Ukrainian revolution. The Mexican Revolution. From the late 19th century until World War II, anarchists played a key role in these events and in social movements that would shape the world we live in.
Yet these contributions a...
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Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy
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Wang Bing's monumental YOUTH trilogy is driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines — just like the lives of the young garment workers portrayed. Wang immerses himself in the lives of these workers, as they try to find potential dates, negotiate better piece-work rates with bosses, and sew ...
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24 Hours Jerusalem (series)
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Shot simultaneously by 70 crews, this is a portrait of one day in the life of the world's most famous contradictory city and is a multi-level unique experience. Behind the harsh politics of our days lie personal daily routines familiar to all.
Following protagonists from all religions and backgr...
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Exile, A Myth Unearthed
Movie + 1 extra
It has been depicted in artwork, and lamented in poetry and prayer for nearly 2,000 years: the exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in the first century AD.
But what if it never happened?
That is the central, provocative question explored in EXILE, A MYTH UNEARTHED, which looks at exi...
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The New Americans (series)
1 season
The New Americans follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his family in rural...
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The Hitler Chronicles
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Mixing political fatigue with populist theses, post-factual arguments and lies, along with emotional appeals ridiculing democratic processes and defaming opponents is not new. Seeing signs repeat themselves is a disturbing experience with a clear political statement and society needs to act again...
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Maison Close (two seasons)
2 seasons
Set in a lavish 19th Century Parisian bordello, the provocative and popular French erotic drama Maison Close invites American audiences into a sumptuous, stylized world where desire and power reign. Following the suppression of la Commune, a short-lived workers’ revolutionary movement in the 1870...
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Preserving Worlds (series)
2 seasons
Preserving Worlds is a documentary travelogue through aging and beloved virtual worlds. Join us as we explore dated chat environments, appreciate player-created art, and meet people working against obsolescence to keep the communities they care about alive and accessible. Virtual worlds are delic...
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Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
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We don't know how. We don't know when. But death comes for us all.
To be human is to wrestle with this truth and with the great unanswered question: How do we live with death in our eye? Do we go gently or raging against the dying light? Do we depart with equanimity or with anger? With clenched ...
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The Adventurers of Modern Art (series)
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Adapted from Dan Franck’s literary trilogy Bohemian Paris, Libertad! and Midnight, the story plunges us into Parisian life at the beginning of the twentieth century, a hotbed of artistic creation with the blossoming of Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. Through illustrations, animation and ...
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Confounding Father: A Contrarian View of the U.S. Constitution
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This documentary tells the story of the constitutional convention from the contrarian viewpoint of the opponents of the document. It serves as a timely reexamination of the U.S. political system and features Luther Martin, a Maryland delegate to the 1787 constitutional convention who opposed the ...
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Capitalism: A six-part series
1 season
Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of "neo- liberalism," capitalism is by far the world's dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work?...
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Middletown
1 season
Inspired by the studies of Robert and Helen Lynd in 1929 and 1935, this classic six-part series by Academy Award and Emmy winner Peter Davis (HEARTS AND MINDS) explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana.
"MIDDL...
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Far Off Sounds (series)
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Far Off Sounds is a documentary series that explores how people use, play, and connect with music around the world. Japanese noise artists, Ethiopian jazz musicians, cult leaders, heavy metal cruises and more. The show tells discreet, intimate stories, in the service of the larger, infinitely com...
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Barber Shop (series)
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In this six-episode series, barbers across the world play their role as opinion makers, confessors, story collectors, and barometers of societal shifts. Each installment speaks to the state of our world, offering human resilience as a hopeful perspective for the future.
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Thinking Existenz
1 season
A highbrow 10-part series on philosophy, politics and society. Ten personalities from diverse social and geographical backgrounds reflect on the world and its future. A portrait in multiple voices of contemporary reality, revealing the deep connections that exist between our mental models and the...
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With God On Our Side (series)
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WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE is a six-hour documentary series treating one of the most important political and cultural stories in contemporary America: the rise to power of the Religious Right.
This in-depth investigation traces its roots from the anxious "Christian anti-Communism" of the 1950's to th...
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At Last the 1948 Show (two seasons)
2 seasons
“Pre-Python comedy gold!” – The Daily Mail
This ground-breaking, splendidly silly and surreal comedy sketch series, written and performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, was a major milestone on the road to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Each surviving episode...
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Do Not Adjust Your Set (series)
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With Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band • 1967
Written by and starring the future members of Monty Python, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle, DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET was broadcast on British TV in 1967, envisaged as a children’...
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Food for Thought
1 season
In the series, Food for Thought, seven young people start a dialogue with seven philosophers. As food is simply the best way to connect with one another, we cook and eat together while reflecting on crucial life questions. By bringing philosophy into the kitchen, we put theory into practice: we t...
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Mondovino the Series: The Human Drama (And Comedy) of Wine-Making
1 season
Epic in scope, this multi-generation, globe-trotting saga covers not only the entire gamut of wine making, but wine's place in a treacherously globalized and hyper-marketed world. From the billionaire power brokers of Napa Valley, to the aristocratic rivalries of competing Florentine dynasties, t...
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Faith Love Desire
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Intimate beliefs as told by practicing Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists from six countries.
Eros: divine gift or diabolical power? Throughout the ages all religions have striven to regiment people’s sex lives and to steer them into orderly channels, to avoid excesses and reign in ...