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Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
1980s South Africa: The community of Railway, attached to remote Marseilles, face brutal oppression and only the young 'Five Fingers' are willing to fight, until hot-headed Tau commits a terrible act and flees. Twenty years later, 'outlaw' Tau renounces violence and returns to Marseilles. It soon becomes clear that the town is in the grip of a new threat. Standing against old allies and new enemies, he'll put his life at risk for Marseilles. It's...
3) Wrestle
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Description
*Hoop Dreams* goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the State Championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles,...
4) Masaan
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Hindi
Description
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
5) Intolerance
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Description
In this cinematic milestone, director D.W. Griffith utilized enormous sets and thousands of extras in order to stage his cinematic exploration of intolerance and it's terrible effects throughout history from ancient Babylon and biblical Judea to medieval Paris and modern America.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films,...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
8) Charm City
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Delivering a candid portrait of citizens, police, community advocates, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled, escalating violence in Baltimore. The film highlights the positive actions undertaken by groups and individuals, who come together to rebuild, heal, and forge a better way forward.
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