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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson, 'Ethos' lifts the lid on a Pandora's Box of systemic issues that guarantee failure in every aspect of our lives, from the environment to our democracy and our own personal liberty. From conflicts of interest in politics to unregulated corporate power, to a military industrial complex that just about owns our government. We cannot change our system until we know how the system works....
Series
Publisher
Kandoo Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In AMERICAN STREET KID, filmmaker Michael Leoni takes you on a journey into a world that most people don't know exists. A world where in order to survive, kids are forced to sell drugs, beg for money or sell their bodies. Their powerful stories are heartbreaking and their unrelenting hope and determination to create a better life shines through, in this true tale of love, friendship, and the triumph of the human spirit.
6) Terminus
Series
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Shows changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station.
7) In Touch
Series
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
The story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ''The Land of Thousand Lakes''. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80's and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into new lives...
Series
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. 306 HOLLYWOOD transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of an Emerging International...
Series
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since 1977, Sam Klemke has filmed his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and the **Hot Docs Film Festival**. "*Adventuresome, unclassifiable.*" - ***Variety*** "*...a rather interesting tale about a compulsive personality*." - ***Film International***
Series
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2007, four teenagers from disparate backgrounds are voted "MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED" during their senior year of high school. Filmed over a ten-year period and directed by award-winning photographer Pamela Littky, we watch as they each chart their own version of success and navigate the unpredictability of American life in the 21st Century.
11) The Road Movie
Series
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
A mosaic of asphalt adventures, landscape photography, and some of the craziest stuff you've ever seen, this is a stunning compilation of video footage shot exclusively via the deluge of dashboard cameras that populate Russian roads. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Nashville Film Festival**. "*Suspenseful and funny, occasionally poignant and often nearly unbelievable, it captures a certain sociological flavor while remaining universally accessible.*"...
12) Counting
Series
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, COUNTING merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. COUNTING measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic Winner of Best Cinematographer at **DOC LA**. Official Selection...
14) Fattitude
Series
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
FATTITUDE is an eye-opening look at how popular media perpetuates fat hatred that results in a cultural bias and a civil rights issue for people living in fat bodies. Fat people are paid $1.25 less an hour than their thin counterparts and can still legally lose jobs just because they're fat. Additionally, 1 in 3 doctors associates fat bodies with hostility, dishonesty and poor hygiene. FATTITUDE looks at how this systemic cultural prejudice results...
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With humor and heart, award-winning filmmaker Michelle Boyaner shares her complex and devastatingly tender journey, as well as those of several other families, into the challenges and joys of adult children caring for their aging parents.
Series
Publisher
Pourquoi Pas Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Being and Becoming explores the theme of trusting children and their development, and invites us to question our learning paradigms and options.. The filmmaker takes us on a journey of discovery through the US, France, the UK and Germany (where it's illegal not to go to school.) We meet parents who have made the choice of not schooling their children, neither at school nor at home, but of letting them learn freely what they are truly passionate about.....
Series
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For nearly four months, Linda Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record. As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three men fight to build something lasting for themselves and future generations.
Shot over three years in the neighborhoods of Detroit, STREET FIGHTING MEN is a story of hard work, faith and manhood in a community left to fend for itself. The film takes a deep, observational dive into the lives of three African American men: retired
...19) Welcome to Unity
Series
Publisher
Questar Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy mountain town nestled in rural America, seven foreign exchange students set out to tackle the 'American Dream.'
20) Getting Over
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A man discovers a box of interviews with his father, a heroin addict who died of AIDS in 1997. What he finds will uncover generations of family secrets, forcing him to redefine his own past, doubt his present, and question his future. Winner of the Award of Merit for Documentary Feature at the **Impact Docs Awards.** Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival.** *"An often raw, plaintive filial cry of pain over wasted changes and lost parents..."...
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