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1) The First 48
Series
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation's top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Taiwan is known around the world as having one of the most diverse cuisines in Asia, and food is the foremost passion of its 23 million inhabitants. The raw and the cooked is a sumptuous exploration of the island's rich culinary traditions, and their relationship to the Taiwan's unique mix of cultures. The film begins in Taipei, circles the island, and then heads inland. Along the way we enter the world-renowned restaurant Shin Yeh atop the city's...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From cinema-vérité pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre in this comprehensive and eye-opening two-disc box set. Featuring interviews with 38 directors and 163 film clips from classics such as Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line, as well as recent work like Darwin's Nightmare and Touching...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community facing the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Truth & Art is a new film and exhibition by the celebrated visual artist - Sunara Begum, exploring the relationship between three global artists/musicians and their work. Through her portraiture, digital tapestry and montage her work brings us into their world and delves deep into their musical and creative practice. The documentary film celebrates the life and work of these innovative global artists. Three of the world's finest artists/musicians...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Extraordinary changes are taking place in American medicine today. Driven by new scientific evidence, doctors are coming to understand that treating the body alone is not enough; the mind can also play a critical role in the healing process. Many physicians are embracing a more holistic form of healthcare, seeking to heal the whole person. Treatments once considered fringe, including visualization, meditation and hypnosis, are being prescribed alongside...
8) 60 Days In
Series
Publisher
A&E®
Language
English
Description
60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Full battle rattle is a revelatory look at the soul of the American war machine--an astonishing journey inside a once top-secret military base where U.S. soldiers train to confront a new kind of enemy. In California's Mojave Desert, the U.S. Army has built a billion dollar urban warfare simulation--a cluster of towns and villages modeled on counterparts in the Middle East, complete with full-time residents played by Iraqi Americans. With un-restricted...
10) The Universe
Series
Publisher
The History® Channel
Language
English
Description
It's time for a new look at a very old universe. In its mysteries, we are finding the secrets of our past and the key to our future. This is a history of how we know what we do about space. Fifty years have flown by since man first ventured into space.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, provoke and inspire. Mumia: long distance revolutionary is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America's most famous political prisoner - a man whose existence tests our beliefs about freedom of expression....
12) Paralyzing fear
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seldom has society come full circle in the cycle of a disease - from illness, to epidemic, to cure. Polio is the 20th century's most notable exception. Every baby boomer remembers collecting dimes in their dime cards, hearing the success of the Salk shot, and lining up for oral vaccines taken in a sugar cube. But few know the story of how polio came to America in 1916 and grew into the frightening epidemics of the 1940's and 50's when the disease...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Featuring previously unseen footage, de-classified documents, and revealing interviews with Kissinger supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft, and William Safire) as well as his detractors (Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross, and Christopher Hitchens), The trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in U.S. History.
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Silent Witness broked box office records when it opened up in London in 1978. Narrated by Kenneth More, the film won a British Academy Award and expanded interest in the Shroud worldwide.
Shroud of Turin was commissioned by the BBC in 2008. It looked at how the 1988 C14 test stood up against the weight of other evidence from history, archaeology, forensic medicine, art, and 3D analysis.
Shroud was the official film for the 2010 Exposition of the...
Series
Publisher
Lifetime
Language
English
Description
In Little Women: Atlanta, the little ladies turn it up wherever they go - especially with club promoter Emily leading the charge. There is no shortage of drama within this circle of friends as they face the daily challenges that come with being a little person.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Kirby Dick's provocative film investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films. Kirby looks at some of the controversial rating decisions of the past four decades, hires a private eye to find out who these anonymous raters are and puts his own film through the rating process.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Chely Wright: wish me away is the story of Chely Wright, the first Nashville music star to come out as gay. Over three years, the filmmakers were given extraordinary access to Chely's struggle and her unfolding plan to come out publicly. Using interviews with Chely, her family, her pastor, and key players in the music world, alongside Chely's intimate private video diaries, the film goes deep into her back story as an established star and then forward...
19) Following Sean
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck tracks down Sean, the boy who had been the subject of his controversy-sparking documentary in 1969, to see what he is like 30 years later.
Author
Series
Jevin Banks experience volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
While covertly investigating a controversial neurological research program, exposé filmmaker Jevin Banks is drawn into a far-reaching conspiracy involving one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms. After giving up his career as an escape artist and illusionist in the wake of his wife and sons' tragic death, Jevin is seeking not only answers about the questionable mind-to-mind communication program, but also answers to why his family suffered...
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