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1) Planet ocean
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Using the extraordinary images of the Earth's oceans an international team of underwater cinematographers explain some of the planet's greatest natural mysteries, while reinforcing how essential it is to live in harmony with our oceans.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the first documented cases from the Civil War, the film examines occurrences of PTSD through two World Wars and Vietnam, as well as more recent cases involving soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories are told through soldiers' revealing letters and journals; photographs and combat footage; first-person interviews with veterans of WWII, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and interviews...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute. At times they were arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they used what influence...
5) Mirage men
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"For over sixty years, teams within the US Air Force and US intelligence agencies exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits as part of their counter-intelligence programs. In doing so, they spawned a mythology so powerful that it captivated and warped many brilliant minds, including several of their own." -- Container.
6) Inside job
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Through extensive interviews with key financial insiders and others, examines the causes and effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, which nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although under Mexican rule, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration in Texas, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos who were forced to choose a side. The conflict...
10) Bridegroom
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On May 7, 2011, a young man tragically lost the love of his life to an accident. Because they were not legally married or prepared for the unexpected, his partner lost all legal claims to him after he died. The family of the deceased partner banned his partner from the funeral services and was unable to say goodbye. On the one year anniversary, his partner posted a YouTube video: It Could Happen To You.
14) Limelight
Pub. Date
[2012], 2011.
Language
English
Description
As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1980s New York City club scene. The eye-patch-sporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Following his father's suicide, director Jonathan Holiff discovers hundreds of letters and audio diaries, including recorded phone calls with Johnny Cash during his crazed pill-fueled 1960s, triumphs at Folsom and San Quentin, marriage to June Carter, and his conversion in the early 1970s to born-again Christian."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Made by the United States Information Agency in 1964 as a memorial tribute to President Kennedy to be shown overseas, the film captures the spirit and vitality of his presidency with excerpts from many of his speeches as well as color footage of his swearing in and inaugural address.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"... explores Washington's early military career in the French & Indian War, his romances, his family life, and his management of Mount Vernon, and connects these experiences to his actions in the Revolution and his two terms as the first President of the United States"--Publisher website.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Joe Wilson returns to his hometown of Oil City, Pa., after his wedding announcement appears in his small hometown newspaper causes controversy, and he receives a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen who is being tormented in school. Challenges viewers to rethink their values and close the gaps that divide communities on this controversial issue.
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