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Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Included are featurettes,...
2) Stevie
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Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
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The Friedman's seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold and his son Jesse with hundreds of shocking crimes. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to disintegrate, revealing questions about justice, family and finally...
4) Nanking
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Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
5) Why we fight
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Reflects the sharp divide that exists among the American people on why we are in Iraq. Also asks some pertinent questions about the economic necessities of war.
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Prepárese para dejarlo todo atrás desde Sur y Centro America viajando solo con un vago sentido de dirección y el eco de su familia aún en sus oídos. Prepárese para enfrentarse a la intimidación, corrupción y el peligro en México que eventualmente encontrará en 1,300 millas al norte al tratar de cruzar la frontera y llegar a Estados Unidos.
Follow one man as he leaves behind everything in Central America. With little sense of direction and...
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Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle's spiritural dimension named for the Xhosa word for "power". An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and triumph.
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Toccoa, Georgia. Robert Eads is a 52-year-old wise-cracking cowboy who was born female and transitioned into living as a man after bearing two sons. Fifteen years later, he has fallen in love with Lola Cola, a vivacious and magnetic woman who was born male. Together they are coping with Robert's terminal case of ovarian cancer.
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"Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. [The film] connects these seemingly disparate elements and conducts a dazzling, yet harrowing, examination of the tragic effect that has reshaped the face of the country and created an entire industry built on corruption."--Container.
11) Unzipped
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Using a variety of cinematographic techniques, the personal world of high- profile fashion designer Issac Mizrahi is portrayed as he designs his fall 1994 collection. Features Mizrahi and several famous supermodels.
12) The mission
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"Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent around the world to preach their gospel. [The film] follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of Europe's most private and secular people. [It] tracks these wide-eyed, impassioned teens on their two-year rite of passage as they struggle with being immersed in a new culture and the daily...
13) Sound and fury
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If you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Sound and fury is the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture, and their bonds with each other.
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This documentary takes the viewer inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts -- an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward -- directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping, infuriating,...
15) War dance
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Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic...
16) Afghan star
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In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American idol-style series, Afghan star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to everyone across the country despite gender, ethnicity,...
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In July 1974, 29-year-old TV host Christine Chubbuck went on air in Sarasota, Florida for her morning talk show "Suncoast Digest" and shot herself on live TV. The incident became a national news story and is rumored to have been the inspiration for Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning film Network. This film follows a young actress named Kate Lyn Sheil who is hired to potray Chubbuck in a new film.
18) Regret to inform
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In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
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It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and not Hollywood, the results are at times bizarre, comical, and very American. With the help of his mother, his 82-year-old uncle, and a local cast of hilarious weirdos, filmmaker Mark Borchardt fights his way through internal and external roadblocks to achieve his goal to make his movie his way. Spanning over two years of struggle, financial decline, and spiritual...
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