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1) Cow
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold's first documentary immerses the audience in life on a dairy farm in rural England through the eyes of Luma, a cow. Empathetic and nearly wordless, the film opens during calving season and captures a world of animal existence that is ordered around service to humans.
2) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. *"A triumph of editing and narrative beyond "Are you kidding me?" visuals, Meru is a climbing story with context;...
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Language
English
Formats
Description
An explosive, global story, with immediate and ongoing consequences that strikes at the heart of the biggest themes of our times; income inequality, whistleblowers, and corrupt power-brokers manipulating world governments and big business.
5) Francofonia
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Alexander Sokurov's portrait of the real-life collaboration that saved the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation, a stunning and urgently relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of the Fedora Award for Best Euro-Mediterranean Film and the Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award and nominated for the Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**....
Author
Series
By night volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box, a division of Boom! Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After discovering a mysterious device, Jane and Heather decide try their hand at documentary filmmaking... in another dimension! There's something strange going on in Spectrum, South Dakota. Home to high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, Spectrum is a boomtown that's long since stopped booming, with nothing to show for its former glory but the abandoned Charleswood Estate, its dwindling sprocket millions, and the story of the...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Join Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach as they travel to unique and forbidding ice caves in Greenland, underwater caves in the Yucatan, terrestrial caves in the Grand Canyon and other spectacular locations. For those compelled to push their limits in the world's most hostile environments, the risk of fatal danger and thrill of new discovery are the everyday factors that make cave exploration such an awe-inspiring experience.
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box, a division of Boom! Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two estranged childhood best friends unexpectedly travel through a portal into another, spookier world where they attempt to create the greatest documentary of all time. Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows have been to the other side...and now it's just a question of how to bring proof back home with them. And then there's the question of how the portal got there in the first place...and whether or not the town of Spectrum, South Dakota is safe, or...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
One of the most important artists of the era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades. From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. Following the Fukushima disaster, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan's social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following a cancer diagnosis, his haunting awareness of life crises...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explore humanity's relationship with nature and wildlife, as scientists and conservationists from all over the world examine ways that can restore the planet? The documentary series asks whether newfound awareness of nature could bring about a new chapter in the human story.
12) The challenge
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.
13) Apocalypse '45
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the end of World War II. With never-before-seen restored footage and the voices of 24 men who lived through these events, this timely documentary highlights the experiences of the last of the Greatest Generation.
14) Human flow
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"THE SECRETS OF THE OTHERWORLD ARE REVEALED. It's time to uncover the truth of what really happened to old Chet Charles, how the Eidolon was created...and what it has to do with Jane's parents. But as Heather, Jane, and their increasingly improbable team come face to face with the terrible truth of Spectrum, they'll be forced to make choices that will forever change their futures--or totally, literally blow up in their faces and ensure they have no...
16) Alive inside
Publisher
MVD Visual
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.
17) American harvest
Publisher
White Hot Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Examines the lives and issues of legal and illegal migrant agricultural workers and the American farmers who rely on them, in light of current United States immigration policy and anti-immigration sentiment.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, this is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses...
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