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21) The brain
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the wonders of the human brain in an epic series that reveals the ultimate story of why people feel and think the things they do. The ambitious project blends science with innovative visual effects and compelling personal stories, and addresses some big questions.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's prolific life; we learn little of his past, his process or...
Publisher
Aesthetic VideoSource
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Teaches the art of hand reflexology and massage. Provides hands-on instruction, demonstrating the strokes and techniques on both the right and left hands and on different models. Discusses the body's physiology, contraindications (particularly geriatric concerns), history, and how the anatomy of the hand maps to each part of the body. Demonstrates techniques to work the hand and forearm for flexibility, relaxation, and improved circulation, and how...
Publisher
Bel Air Classiques
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The all-male company presents a taste of their repertoire. Most of the titles come from the classical ballet canon, and are performed by the Trocks with a combination of parody, satire, and a thorough knowledge of the source material. They also perform original material skewering specific choreographers.
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Water. It's the earth's most valuable resource. Our cities are powered by it, countless industries depend on it, and all living things need it to survive. But it's very possible that in the near future, there won't be enough to sustain life on our planet. This film sheds light on the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system, and shows communities already struggling with its ill effects.
26) Lost in America
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the epidemic of homeless teenagers in America.
In the world's wealthiest country, 4.2 million teenagers are homeless. Former Navy veteran and homeless youth, director Rotimi Rainwater shows viewers the realities of life on the streets as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America. With the help of celebrities and politicians who have been homeless themselves or advocates of the repressed, the...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives is confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced - the survival of his country and everyone in it. Nasheed, who brought democracy to the Maldives after decades of despotic rule, now faces an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives and make them uninhabitable.
28) Gift
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a tribute to something that can't be measured or counted, bought, or sold. Exploring the parallels between artists' work and a gift economy, it's a reflection on the creative process and the beauty and challenges of fearlessly giving and receiving.
29) The city dark
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The City Dark chronicles the disappearance of darkness. The film follows filmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney who moves to New York City from Maine and discovers an urban sky almost completely devoid of stars. He poses a deceptively simple question, 'What do we lose, when we lose the night?"--Container.
30) Cow
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of one dairy cow's life. The film highlights the beauty and challenges cows face, and their great service to us all.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, who speak about their lived experience with mental health challenges, from depression to addiction to suicide ideation.
33) Every body
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary...
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Utilities around the world are racing to install smart utility meters, which are emerging as anything but smart. This documentary uncovers shocking evidence of in-home privacy, increased utility bills, health risks such as cancer, environmental harm, fires, and unprecedented hacking vulnerability, while lighting the path toward solutions. With compelling insight from whistleblowers, researchers, government agents, lawyers, doctors, and environmentalists....
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
37) Amazing grace
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
38) Nuclear now
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, filmmaker Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy - an option that may become a vital way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think.
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