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81) Generation 9/11
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Generation 9/11 marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by telling the stories of seven young people whose fathers were killed that day. The film explores how a man they never met and an event they didn’t witness have shaped their world view and the world around them. Their experiences reflect those of an entire generation, whose lives so far have been bracketed by crisis.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars. In February 2021, the spacecraft blazes into the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 miles per hour and lowers the Perseverance Rover into the rocky Jezero Crater, home to a dried-up river delta scientists think could have harbored life. Perseverance will comb the area for signs of life and collect samples for possible return to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Spanning over three presidential terms, it was the largest covert CIA operation in US history. Today, the Laos people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs on their doorsteps. With great beauty and empathy, this doc reveals the unbelievable stories of the men and women at the forefront of this monumental task....
85) FrackNation
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
During a time of globally heightened debate, Journalist Phelim McAleer travels across the U.S. and Europe to speak with scientists and Americans living in fracking areas, in order to uncover the science behind the process and to determine its true consequences. Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," refers to the process of drilling down into rock and using pressurized fluids to extract energy sources such as natural gas and petroleum. Supporters of...
87) The clowns
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
88) Muse of Fire
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to discover everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Consulting a host of helpful luminaries along the way, including Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their exciting road trip takes them to Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood with Baz Luhrman, a prison in Berlin and Shakespeare’s home in...
89) Suzi Q
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Story of trailblazing American rock singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro, who helped redefine the role of women in rock 'n' roll when she broke out in 1973
90) One More Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A daring team of astronauts and aviators fly a high-speed Gulfstream jet around the earth faster than anyone ever has to set the pole-to-pole circumnavigation record. Beginning their mission from the same spot Apollo 11 launched for the moon 50 years before, this tribute to the past, present, and future of space exploration breaks the boundaries of what was previously thought possible.
91) Below Sea Level
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. Rosi spent five years shooting BELOW SEA LEVEL, which documents the hand-to-mouth existence of California flatland squatters.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before — permanently altering the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people. Contending with death on an unprecedented scale posed challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began. Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, and new ways of coping...
93) We Are X
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WE ARE X is a rock & roll story about the world’s biggest and most successful band you’ve never heard of…yet. Under the direction of drummer, pianist, composer, and producer Yoshiki, X Japan has sold over 30 million singles and albums.
94) I Am Human
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
By 2029, scientists predict that approximately one million people will have implantable technology in their brains. This film follows the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring journeys of three early pioneers - Bill, Anne, and Stephen. As these unlikely cyborgs grapple with the realities of their implantable brain technology, scientists face pressing technical and ethical quandaries: will the same technology that heals the sick soon lead to super human abilities,...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2007, four teenagers from disparate backgrounds are voted “MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED” during their senior year of high school. Filmed over a ten-year period and directed by award-winning photographer Pamela Littky, we watch as they each chart their own version of success and navigate the unpredictability of American life in the 21st Century.
97) K2 Selling Death
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This heart-wrenching short film about the effects of K2 addiction puts the viewer right on the streets of Dallas, Texas, where the drug is taking lives every day. K2 is a synthetic cannabinoid up to 100 times as potent as marijuana, the drug causes hallucinations, violent behavior, and leaves some comatose.
98) Finding Phong
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Phong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam – the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy’s body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age twenty did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to “find himself” by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later. The movie follows Phong’s...
100) Into the Amazon
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.
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