Orphans of the Cosmos

Made at the San Francisco Art Institute with my students, this tuneful picture transports the viewer to the planet Mars as three attractive teens seek funding for an expedition into adulthood. Along the way they and we e

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama is a 2001 American documentary film, directed, produced, and written by Lianne Klapper McNally. It documents a group of American artists traveling to the Republic of Georgia for an art

The Two Orphans

An adaptation of the play The Two Orphans by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon.

Orphan's Song

The wealthy businessman Wu Xiang Fu’s family was trying to win the family’s wealth. The young and widowed two young women did not obey the woman’s way, and she was driven out of the house. She even wanted to poison her s

The Queen's Orphans

Raised as Catholics by the Queen of Portugal, the orphans Leonor, Brites, and Mécia are sent to the Brazilian colony with the order to get married. The harsh adaptation to the precariousness of the New World is felt diff

Orphans of the Genocide

Orphans of the Genocide is an eye-opening visual journey through never-before-seen archival footage and discovered memoirs of orphans who lived through the the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Over 150,000 orphans were rescued

Orphans of The Wood

A Secrets of Nature short.

We Were Once Orphans

Calvin, a new enrollee in an orphanage is greeted by Jesse and Frank. The three soon form a bond of brotherhood that could never be broken - until Jesse and Frank are adopted by a wealthy family. 20 years later the broth

Orphans and Other Children: Live

A concert film featuring entirely improvised music.

Panorama of Orphans' Home, Galveston

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown one of the principal streets in Galveston blocked with overturned house

Five Orphans of the Storm

One of Van Beuren Studios' Aesops Fables shorts

Becoming Elephant: The Orphans of Reteti

Becoming Elephant: The Orphans of Reteti is set in the wild north of Kenya, where a groundbreaking blueprint in conservation is under way. This touching documentary follows the remarkable journey of orphaned elephants at

An Orphan's Tragedy

Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education o

Drill of the Reedham Orphans

Purely, Surrey orphanage fundraising event with children performing choreographed military-style drills, believed to be filmed somewhere between 1904 and 1912.

The Orphan's Tale

After the premature death of her parents, Madeline, an eight-year-old girl, has to live in the country with an aunt and uncle that she barely knows. Lonely and melancholic, the young girl is intrigued by a mysterious mus

Sankara's Orphans

Thomas Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso in 1983, with the promise of a revolutionary government that would transform the West African country. To help build the revolution, he sent 600 children — many orphans from r

The Orphan's Rescue

A concubine and a cousin attempt to poison a rich man's son to gain the inheritance. But he survives and must fight back.

An Orphan’s Cry

The Orphan’s Kaddish

An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and he became one of the greatest Jewish writers of our time. Every day, through his murmuring voice a

Orphan’s Blues

Ema suffers from memory loss. One day she gets a drawing of an elephant from Yang , a childhood friend who has gone missing. With the postmark as her only clue, Ema heads on a journey to find Yang with her childhood frie