Independent Lens · SEASON 7
Almost Home
Episode 15 · 2006-02-21
- Documentary
Episode overview
Almost Home rescues from an exile of denial the real stories of aging that lie in the vast middle between the uber-heroic octogenarian marathoner and the feeble geriatric that most Americans fear becoming. A feature length, cinema-verité film shot on location in a continuing care community that boasts a nursing home transforming its medical (think hospital) model of care into a holistic one (think home), Almost Home is a stunningly intimate film that combines the institution’s struggle to shake the nursing home stigma with tender, sometimes difficult, stories of people who live, work and visit there.
84 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove2005-10-11
2. En Route to Baghdad2005-10-18
3. The Last Cowboy2005-10-25
4. A Family at War2005-11-08
5. Mirror Dance2005-11-15
6. Race Is the Place2005-11-22
7. Maid in America2005-11-29
8. Seoul Train2005-12-13
9. Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community2005-12-20
10. Short Stack: Lost & Found2005-12-27
11. Sheriff2006-01-03
12. Girl Trouble2006-01-17
13. Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power2006-02-07
14. July '642006-02-14
15. Almost Home2006-02-21
16. The Loss of Nameless Things2006-02-28
17. Troop 15002006-03-21
18. Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City2006-03-28
19. Trudell2006-04-11
20. La Sierra2006-04-18
21. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen2006-04-25
22. Music from the Inside Out2006-05-02
23. Fishbowl; American Made2006-05-09
24. Frozen Angels2006-05-16
25. The Devil's Miner2006-05-23
26. The Great Pink Scare2006-06-06
27. The Real Dirt on Farmer John2006-06-13
28. A Lion in the House2006-06-21
29. A Lion in the House2006-06-22
