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2) Alive inside
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
3) Broken
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
4) Love, Gilda
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Never-before-seen footage and journal entries form the narrative spine of the documentary, allowing Gilda Radner to tell her own story; through the laughter and sometimes the tears. Incredibly, she was able to find humor in even the darkest of times. Her spirit lives on in comedy as a female trailblazer who continues to inspire many present day comedic performers.
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As three-year-old Emilio prepares to start school, his family finds itself embroiled in the challenge all too common for children with disabilities, to secure the right to inclusive education. Cornered in one of the most segregated education systems, New York City public schools, filmmaker Olivier and his wife Hilda turn to the camera on themselves and their child with Down Syndrome as they navigate a system originally designed to silo children with...
7) Mully
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A homeless orphan in Kenya becomes a lucrative businessman, only to give it all up and open an orphanage that today serves over 2,000 Kenyan children.
8) 5B
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspirational story of everyday heroes, nurses and caregivers who took extraordinary action to comfort, protect, and care for the patients of the first AIDS ward unit in the United States.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gifted writer's death a week before becoming a critically acclaimed author sends her husband and son on an inspirational book tour to ensure her dream lives on. Carol Wall's debut memoir--about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart--was a breakout success. But joy turned to tragedy when the breast cancer she wrote about returned, and she died months after its publication. Carol's husband, Dick, determined to help her life-affirming...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The amazing story of Joey and Rory Feek. Intimately filmed by the couple over a course of two and a half years. This documentary follows this beautiful couple through the birth of their daughter, and even shows Joey's struggle and ultimate surrender to cancer. However, they never lose hope. A love story for the ages.
11) Marwencol
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Explains how to deal with the addiction of a family member, covering: the biological reasons for addiction; understanding the addict; how addiction affects the family; how to deal with the stigma of addiction; common difficulties for loved ones, such as denial, enabling, fear, and grief; and the meaning and hope of recovery. Includes interviews with recovering addicts and family members.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This dynamic video offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential--and difficult.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Alzheimer's project features a four-part documentary series (The memory loss tapes; Grandpa, will you remember me?, Caregivers, and Momentum in science), 15 short supplemental films, a website, and a nationwide community-based information and outreach campaign, to capture what it means to experience the disease, to be a child or grandchild of one who suffers, and to care for those who are affected.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In comparison to cancer, heart disease, and AIDS, Alzheimer's disease greatly lags in research funding, media attention, and celebrity support. Examine the personal and societal implications of this discrepancy, profiling families living with Alzheimer's, interviewing the doctors on the front lines, and scrutinizing the latest research.
17) I am breathing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Neil Platt ponders the last months of his life. Within a year, he goes from being a healthy young father to becoming completely paralyzed from the neck down. As his body gets weaker, his perspective on life changes. Knowing he only has a few months left to live, and while he still has the ability to speak, Neil puts together a letter and memory box for his baby son Oscar.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lee Gorewitz is a feisty, opinionated woman given to philosophical ruminations on the nature of things, even as she struggles to navigate the increasingly confused and confusing landscape of Alzheimer's disease. An immersive documentary that challenges preconceptions of illness and aging.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
17- year old Taylor Cross captures life and living with autism through interviews with over 65 subjects who have either Asperger's syndrome or autism. Originally a 10-minute short made in 2004 for a high school class, Taylor and his co-director (and mom) took his short as a starting point for this longer feature which looks at the attention the short film brought to him and autism, and enlarges on the subject of what living with autism & Asperger's...
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