Under the Radar: Burma
While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.
Neil Hollander
Director
Casts & Crew
Henry Rollins
Himself
Also Directed by Neil Hollander
Hunger is a real and growing problem in the 21st century, where hundreds of millions of people go to bed without a meal each night and thousands literally die for want of food every day.
This edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.
When the "Silk King" Jim Thompson came to Thailand at the end of World War 2, he became one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. His disappearance in the Malaysian jungle in 1967 is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century
Wiped out by a stock market crash, Sam Spencer suddenly finds himself broke and homeless in New York. When a friend offers him a job in California, Sam heads west the only way he can afford, hopping trains. Along the way, he befriends Enrique, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and Enrique's canine companion who together introduce Sam to hobo culture.
In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.
A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.
Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.
