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11101) American epic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From executive producers T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White, this is the story of early American recorded music when the musical strands of a nation first combined to spark a cultural renaissance that forever transformed the future of music and the world. Also includes a feature-length film of in-studio sessions, with leading contemporary artists recording early American music on a restored 1920s recording machine.
11102) Homeland: Iraq year zero
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Arabic
Description
"In his epic and engaging documentary of life in Baghdad before and after the 2003 US invasion, Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel acquaints us with a moving portrait of his own family and friends as they struggle in the advent and the uncertain aftermath of war. Displaying courage, grace and even humor after decades of deprivation through conflict, international sanctions, and totalitarian oppression, their optimism and determination is both inspiring...
11103) Boston: the documentary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The history of the Boston Marathon from its humble origins starting with only fifteen runners, to the first female runners, through the tragedy in 2013, and ultimately the triumph of 2014.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by Jeffrey Wright, Rigged chronicles how our right to vote is being undercut by a decade of dirty tricks - including the partisan use of gerrymandering and voter purges, and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court. The film captures real-time voter purges in North Carolina and voter intimidation in Texas."--Amazon.com.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows Rene Redzepi and his staff as they temporarily close the world-renowned Noma restaurant in Copenhagen and relocate to Tokyo, with the challenge to develop and serve a locally-sourced 14-course meal at a 5-week pop-up restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo hotel.
11107) Sex trafficking in America
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sex trafficking happens in every state across America, and many victims are children. Frontline travels to Phoenix, Arizona to investigate the lucrative industry and examine efforts to combat it.
11108) Dave not coming back
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this documentary, two divers break a world record for depth in a 283-meter cave. Before surfacing, they discover a body and decide to retrieve it.
11109) I am Richard Pryor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The legendary performer and iconic social satirist transcended race and social barriers by delivering his honest irreverent and biting humor to America's stages and living rooms until his death at 65. Featuring an iconic comedic cast of historians, activists and artists who provide a unique brushstroke into the complex world of Pryor, the film dives deeply into the psyche of a comedic genius whose mother was a prostitute, father a pimp, and grandmother...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them, the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was...
11111) A brighter summer day
Series
Criterion collection volume 804
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, it is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager.
11112) Out of the clear blue sky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tells the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald. On September 10, 2001, financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the top 5 floors of the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, 658 of their 960 employees were missing, presumed dead, in the nation's worst terrorist attacks. Tells twin stories' the saga of the ravaged business and surviving employees, and an insider's take on the unusual community of families that formed...
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene to analyze film production, beginning with directorial fallibility, the inherently collaborative nature of film making, and the creative possibilities that emerge from hardship. In the end, this renders the line between documentary and fiction moot,...
11114) Resistance at Tule Lake
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the US government's program of mass incarceration during World War II.
11115) Whiskey on a Sunday
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The DVD comprises an "in-the-pocket" film by Jim Dziura tracking the musicians from their bar-band roots to their current success, including footage of the band in the studio, on tour, at home and at their sold-out homecoming performance at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Bonus features include a return to Molly Malone's, extended interviews, outtakes and live performances.
11117) Arctic wolf pack
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra dipping temperatures to 50 below zero. But running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the White Wolf.
11118) How to dance in Ohio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"A first kiss, a first dance. These are the rites of passage of American youth that hold the promise of magic, romance and initiation into adulthood. For kids from all walks of life, these first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying. For some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. In Columbus, Ohio, a group of young people with an array of developmental challenges...
11119) Alt-right age of rage
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the first year of Donald J. Trump's presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the alt-right movement, while Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.
11120) Madonna: truth or dare
Pub. Date
2012, ©1991
Language
English
Description
Documentary which presents an intimate view of the rock music star, Madonna and a backstage look at her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour.
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