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Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. Bonhoeffer's last years, his participation in the German resistance and his moral struggle are dramatized in this film.
43) Jobs
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A riveting story of a true American visionary, a man who let nothing stand in the way of greatness. It chronicles the iconic innovator and entrepreneur's early days. He was a college dropout who co-founded Apple Computer Inc. and was then forced to leave. More than a decade later, Jobs returns and single-handedly sets a course that will turn the once-tiny startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. His epic journey blazes a trail that...
44) Barack Obama
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The democratic political star during the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and now a possible front runner for the candidacy for the President of the United States, in many ways, his story is a unique American tale of the 21st century. Biography travels from Obama's childhood in Honolulu and Indonesia, to his formative years at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, all the way to his current status as a leading political figure.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aviva Ziegler has worked in Award-winning Current Affairs television in Australia for over 20 years, observing and documenting the lives of others. In this film, Aviva turns the camera on herself to explore the essence of her own Jewishness. Being Jewish for Aviva is something of a conundrum: If you have no formal involvement in Judaism and its practices, and you don't even believe in God, then what is it that makes you answer "yes" when asked if...
46) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
48) The soloist
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
High definition.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Times reporter Lopez develops an unlikely friendship with a homeless musician.
49) The hurricane
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Garry Shandling died in 2016, he was widely remembered as a top stand-up comedian and the star of two of the most innovative sitcoms in TV history. But to those who knew him, the 'real' Garry Shandling was a far more complex person. Now, Shandling's longtime friend and onetime mentee Judd Apatow has created a remarkable portrait of this iconic comedian in a revealing two-part documentary.
52) Reagan
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of Ronald Reagan's life, with comments by contemporaries and historians.
55) Tolkien
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire...
56) Priscilla
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A true story of innocence lost and courage found. Ron Kovic, a young volunteer for the Vietnam War, changed from being a zealous teen to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted.
58) The iron lady
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
59) Mapplethorpe
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intimate portrait of the celebrated yet controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (Matt Smith) whose relationship with Patti Smith and other icons of '70s New York influenced his ambitious photos while he explored his emerging sexuality. Nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*[D]irector Ondi Timoner... has crafted a stylish, evocative, absorbing snapshot of creative expression, artistic ambition, sexuality...
60) Faustina
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Polish
Description
In 2000, Sister Faustina was canonized as the first saint of the new millennium. This stirring and evocative film depicts her life, from her girlhood through miraculous healings and her evolution within the Catholic Church. Based on Faustina's spiritual diary.
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