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1121) Mali Blues
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become more widespread, dance and secular music are prohibited, musical instruments are destroyed, and musicians are forced to flee their homeland. The vibrant documentary MALI BLUES follows...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time's list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today's growing inequalities. Traveling through...
1123) Wandering Souls
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WANDERING SOULS follows the mounting of a new stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, to honour the nearly 2 million Cambodians who died during the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. Commissioned by Cambodian Living Arts, the Requiem is a first-time collaboration between filmmaker Rithy Panh and composer Dr. Him Sophy. The film tracks the story of the Cambodian creators and musicians, as they work with an international team to bring...
1124) Herb Alpert Is
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Herb Alpert, musician, artist and legend, has sold more than 72 million albums and co-founded A&M Records, the most successful independent record company in history. HERB ALPERT IS... looks at his life with rare footage and interviews.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Street magician, David Blaine, attempts to freeze himself within a block of ice for 72 hours. The hour includes pre-taped footage of Blaine's preparation for the trick and his entry into the icy hangout, as well as segments of Blaine stumping pedestrians with his hip brand of sleight of hand and trickery.
1126) The Last Rhino
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sudan is the very last male Northern White Rhino. His amazing story is told through the global cast of people involved in Sudan's life of 43 years. He was aged 2 when snatched from his mom's side in Central Africa and became a prized exhibit in a zoo behind the Iron Curtain while the rest of his kind was poached to extinction. Now Sudan is the focus of an 11th hour battle to save his sub-species.
1127) Truman and Tennessee
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with clips from some of the duo's most memorable movie adaptations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat...
1129) Naked
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
We've all had the dream. You're going about your normal day and suddenly you're naked. But nudity doesn't have to be embarrassing; it can also be liberating. Three life models, one man and two women, discuss their work posing in the nude. From the nerves of modelling for the first time, to nudity's power to inspire creativity and liberate the model, this insightful doc looks at what it really means to bare yourself to the world.
1130) Keepers of the Magic
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking documentary explores our fascination with moving images and provides insight into how cinema's most iconic moments came to be. Most of all, it honors the great masters of cinematography's unsung heroes whose vision and talent was always right before our eyes. Legendary cinematographers including Vittorio Storaro (*Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, The Conformist*), Roger Deakins (*A Beautiful Mind, No Country For Old Men, Sicario*), and Gordon...
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this short film, British neurologist Raymond Tallis argues that consciousness is not an internal construct, but rather relational. Through the intriguing notion that humans are physically unable to tickle themselves, Tallis explores the philosophical notion that we become ourselves only through dialogue with others. Shouldn't Descartes' first tenet "I think, therefore I am" rather be: we dialogue, therefore we are? A view underscored by the observation...
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With over 500 active volcanoes, the Earth is bursting at the seams with these forces of mass construction. The story of volcanoes is the story of the planet's creation and the story of us. With intrepid explorer Carsten Peter, dodge boulders at the edge of an active volcano in Indonesia, descend to a lava lake in Vanuatu and visit incredible acid ponds, geysers and mineral deposit fields in Ethiopia.
1133) Part Three
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The debate team faces West Point. Seniors embark on their thesis projects. Rodney and Dyjuan's families visit, while Tamara receives terrible news from home. Shawta reckons with her path to prison and Jule struggles to find work in NYC.
1134) What Remains
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As one of the world's preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork that challenges viewers' values and moral attitudes. Described by Time magazine as "America's greatest photographer," she first came to international prominence in 1992 with "Immediate Family," a series of complex and enigmatic pictures of her own children. WHAT REMAINS returns to follow the creation of Mann's new seminal work: a photo series revolving around various aspects...
1135) A Soldier's Dream
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
He was captured at the Battle of The Bulge and survived a German POW camp. Seventy Five years later Milt Feldman is finally ready to tell the story. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Historical and Military Film Festival**.
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of the intimate and unprecedented encounter between the photojournalists of the Magnum Photos Agency and the world of cinema. The confrontation of two seemingly opposite worlds - fiction and reality. For 70 years their paths crossed: a family of photographers, amongst them the biggest names in photography, and a family of actors and filmmakers who helped write the history of cinema, from John Huston to Marilyn Monroe to Orson...
1138) Thin ice
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. They talk about their work, their hopes and fears with a rare candor and directness, resulting in an...
1139) Intersexion
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The first question any new parent asks, is it a boy or a girl? But what happens when doctors cannot answer that question? One baby in 2,000 is born with genitalia that is so ambiguous that no-one can tell if the child is male or female. In this groundbreaking documentary, intersex individuals reveal the secrets of their unconventional lives, and how they have navigated their way through this strictly male/female world, when they fit somewhere in between....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Oscar winner Kate Winslet and directed by Oscar nominee Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, this inspiring film follows one woman's quest to unlock her autistic son's mind. Margret, whose ten-year-old son Keli is severely autistic, has tried a number of treatments to help her son. Consumed by an unquenchable thirst for knowledge about this mysterious and complex condition, she travels from her home in Iceland to the United States and Europe, meeting...
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