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1) Afterlife
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examines the afterlife by looking at cases of near death experiences, interviews with authors Raymond Moody and Jeffrey Long, and re-enactments.
3) Being mortal
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 2011, a group of amateur historians made an incredible archaeological find: the bones of King Richard III, hunchbacked, with an arrow through the spine. Now, scientists are testing the bones to find out more about the king and also conducting fascinating experiments to determine whether Richard could have fought so ferociously in battle with such a severe deformity.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As world-famous aviator Amelia Earhart closed in on her record-setting attempt to fly around the world in July 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - vanishing without a trace. Did she run out of fuel and crash into the sea? Or could she have survived?
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case iin Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog ... probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills. Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human soul.' Herzog's inquiries...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.
10) Edge of dreaming
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie built a career on making science documentaries, reflecting her staunchly rational mind. Then one evening she had a haunting dream of her horse dying, waking to discover that her beloved horse had passed away that same night. Shaken, she tried to pass it off as mere coincidence. But then she had another disturbing slumber, a nightmare where her deceased ex-husband predicts that she will die at age 48. After a foreboding...
11) The Black death
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Killing one third of Europe's population in just three years and ravaging the flourishing cities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and Spain, the Black Death swept across the continent at an inconceivable rate. Through chilling reenactments, interviews with experts and historians, and excerpts from original accounts, discover the origins, progress, and cultural repercussions of the Plague's reign of terror. Many thought it was punishment by God,...
14) Death Valley
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Journey from the park's highest peak, at 11,049 feet, to its lowest point, a staggering 282 feet below sea-level, and meet the scientists who are working to protect this wild place as the mercury rises.
Series
Language
Indonesian
Description
"The act of killing" is an examination of the murder of political dissidents in Indonesia by government sponsored death squads in the years following the military coup in 1965, in which the filmmakers were successful in persuading those responsible to reenact the killings for the camera in the fashion of American movies.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Since then, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. Filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether--and when--to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of the complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait...
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Bobby Cooper dies in a tragic car accident, his younger brother Jake is shaken, until the pastor at Bobby's funeral proclaims that Bobby is alive and well in heaven. That's all Jake needs to hear to set him off on a search for Bobby Cooper in heaven.
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