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- Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.
- Thornton Wilder's classic play on Grover's Corners, a fictional small town and its story taking place between 1901 and 1913, dealing with themes as life, death and the everyday routine of its many residents, all followed and detailed by the Stage Manager.
- Based in Norfolk's seaside town Great Yarmouth, the show follows the lives of several families in their day to day lives.
- The story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
- Dominguez High, in the infamous Compton, CA, has not produced a play in over twenty years. With no money and no stage, two teachers and twenty-four students attempt to produce Thornton Wilder's American Classic OUR TOWN.
- No Place for You in Our Town takes us inside the roughest Bulgarian football gang from the ex-industrial city Pernik. The film follows communal and personal crises to show life beyond the clichéd jokes about its citizens' roughness.
- A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley." Pat and a few newly recruited, fledgling activists face the full force of Shintech's wealth and influence peddling, which has bought the cooperation of the government from the local level all the way up to the Governor's office.
- Two killers are living in our town An ordinary small town is terrorized when local women are found brutally murdered and 'crucified' in public places. Gyeong-joo, a struggling novelist, impulsively kills his landlady during a fierce argument over rent. With the recent murders, he decides to stage the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer. Mimicking the details of previous killings, Gyeong-joo (Oh Man-seok) hangs the dead body in the village park. The police and media believe the case is the work of the same serial killer, but Hyoi (Ryu Deok-hwan), who runs a small stationery shop in the neighborhood, knows something really interesting has happened. He knows that it is a copycat crime because he is the real killer. While Gyeong-joo's childhood buddy and police officer Jae-shin (Lee Sun-kyun) begins to suspect that there may be a second killer, anxious Gyeong-joo and Hyoi, begin their own secret investigations to track down each other.
- From Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan comes Our Towns, a documentary that paints a remarkable picture of America and how the rise of civic and economic reinvention is transforming small cities and towns across the country. Based on journalists James and Deborah Fallows' book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, the film spotlights local initiatives and explores how a sense of community and common language of change can help people and towns find a different path to the future.
- In 1906, a man returns to Japan after finishing a job in the Philippines, only to discover that his lover is dying, leaving him a baby girl.
- After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled "Double Layered Town."
- A madman who fled a mental asylum shelters at an unsettled house."Simin" a poor widow lives there with her daughter too.she became friend with a young man named "Saeed".
- It's been said that every town has a story to be told. In Pittston, we learn about the small town's rich history from the coal mining to the Womens garment industries. The story behind the towns' local festivities are shared through storytelling of the towns past, present and hopes for the future.
- A show that explores the hidden stories of the American Dream in small town America.
- These films about Montreal and its activities were made for CBC Radio-Canada's English network in 1954-1955 and then translated as "Notre Ville" for the French network. To these days, Radio-Canada still uses these films as stock footage.
- Choreographer and performer Steve Elias, known for starring in stage productions of `Billy Elliot' and `Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', visits four Yorkshire towns for a grand celebration of their history and heritage. With dancing at the heart of proceedings, Elias aims to ingratiate himself with the local residents of each location he travels to, in the hope of convincing them to join him for a one-off dance spectacular in the streets. Historical anecdotes from locals, and Yorkshire's endearing character and culture, also feature.
- "Our Town. Unfiltered. - Jean Muenchrath" features Estes Park, Colorado's very own Jean Muenchrath, whose insurmountable bravery in a near-death experience on Mount Whitney, has made her a local legend in the community.
- A documentary that explores how some Canadian small towns are using big city marketing firms to keep themselves from disappearing.
- A group of junior high school pupils from Bircza, a town at the foot of Bieszczady mountains in SE Poland discover a place where 800 local Jews were murdered during World War II. Today both the place, and the tragic story seem totally forgotten. Teenagers reach the last witnesses and they try to reconstruct the course of the event and to commenmorate a forgotten genocide.
- Discover the people, places, history and future of Hawley, Pennsylvania as residents share stories about their town and what makes it so special.
- Painter Fyhrqvist lives in Fagerby, an idyllic small town with colorful characters. Fyhrqvist is a charmer among the women who secretly pose for his paintings. The artist's altarpiece is finally revealed for the town's 401th anniversary.
- This program examines Estes Park's growing international summer workforce who are comprised of students who come here on the J-1 Visa Program. Two of the J-1 Visa students talk about their experiences and the challenges they faced while working in a totally new country.
- Santa Shark suffers from work-related stress and the absence of light near the polar circle.
- A short film based on Central Office of Information films of the 70's and 80's, in particular the 'Protect and Survive' series. Disinfection is about a country-wide town and city disinfection programme and gives viewers information on what they should do on the day their area is disinfected. Produced in Photoshop, AfterEffects and Premiere using still images and paper cut-out animations.
- This news documentary investigates the key purposes of the American Legion in Estes Park. It features American Legion Commander, Terry Rizzuti, as he describes his experience as a Marine in the Vietnam War, and why the American Legion is such an important organization. The show goes on to explore the challenges that Post 119 is facing and what it means for the future of the organization.
- This news documentary investigates the key purposes of the American Legion in Estes Park. It features American Legion Commander, Terry Rizzuti, as he describes his experience as a Marine in the Vietnam War, and why the American Legion is such an important organization. The show goes on to explore the challenges that Post 119 is facing and what it means for the future of the organization.
- Romeo Brown and Juliet Smith appreciate the old adage, "True love never runs smooth." Owing to the unfriendly relations of the houses of Brown and Smith their meetings are clandestine and only spasmodic. They are wending their way down the Zigzag Avenue of Shantytown, Wyoming, cooing and nestling words of love, not even to be disturbed by a village dog fight, or warring factions of Brown and Smith until taken respectively over the parental knee. They are for a time separated, but like the proverbial cat, "they come back." The barn dance, Romeo thrown out, contrives to kidnap the fair Juliet by descending from the hay loft by a rope and carrying her off to his enchanted castle, consternation prevails, but they beat the army of the factions to the Justice of the Peace who said, as Shakespeare wrote, "Get home, golding yet and into yer beds, I've married these young 'uns hey mutton heads."
- A mother must defend her child from the monster that haunts their town.
- This is the play 'Our Town' as performed by the Vancouver Christian High School in Vancouver, WA. The purpose of this film is to archive the event performance by varied grade levels in the high school at their 15 annual and final Dinner/Dessert Theater Performance.
- A group of kids witness a murder and set out to report the crime.
- Nothing is as it seems in this nice long island town, the bad are good and the good are bad, really bad
- Documentary filmmakers ask local residents of Bedford, Indiana, also known as "The Limestone Capital of the World," what makes their town special. What they discovered was that Bedford was far richer in community and history than just the mining industry that defined their town for nearly a century.
- Sheriff Joe intends to bring law and order to OUR TOWN by rounding up as many 'illegals' as he can. Follow his journey as he learns the truth about immigration and the laws surrounding this important issue. As of 2013, despite widespread national interest, the US Congress continues to ignore any meaningful immigration reform.
- Two Hard Cops doing Rough Work on the Mean Streets of Brooklyn
- In 1986, Andy London had a small, forgettable role in the Glen Cove High School production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town". But what happened when the curtains closed...is the stuff of legend.