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1) Flying boat
Publisher
Outsider Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In FLYING BOAT, a handful of pilots and mechanics are featured who have restored, flown, and maintained the last few airworthy examples of the flying boat, a magnificent aircraft from a long-lost era of adventure and romance. The aircraft featured were restored and brought back to flying condition after being decommissioned and sitting in neglect for decades in the Tucson, AZ desert known as the Boneyard. These aviators share a camaraderie and reflect...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane...
3) Your brain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Your brain - for centuries a black box - is slowly giving up its secrets to modern neuroscience, shedding light on big questions that go to the very heart of who you are.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The Quiet Epidemic follows their search for answers, which lands them in the middle of a vicious medical debate. What begins as a patient story evolves into an investigation into the history of Lyme disease, dating back to its discovery in 1975. A paper trail of suppressed...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A celebration of the life and work of one of Broadway's greatest legends, Stephen Sondheim. For the composer and lyricist's 80th birthday in March 2010, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered to perform more than two dozen numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career.
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (359 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bernard-Henri Levy is one of the world's most influential public intellectuals, and Cohen Media Group is proud to present this two-disc collection of his politically charged documentary filmmaking work, leading off with The Will to See (2022), an unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine. The Oath of Tobruk (2012) tracks six months of Ľvy's behind-the-scenes work in war-torn Libya....
9) Las Leonas
Publisher
Distrib Films US
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the outskirts of Rome, six teams compete in the women's soccer championship, the Las Leonas Trophy. All recent immigrants to Italy the majority from South America the participants work busy lives as caregivers and house cleaners throughout the city. Las Leonas follows the daily struggles, dreams, and frustrations of these women; each with their own story of emigration and family history, but united by a shared passion for soccer. Amidst the pressures...
10) Shabu
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Shabu, a fourteen-year-old Dutch-Surinamese aspiring artist from "The Paperclip," an inner city apartment complex in one of Rotterdam's most notorious neighborhoods. Shabu has big dreams but even bigger problems. He's just totaled his grandmother's car and desperately needs to raise some cash before the end of the summer in order to pay her back. Utilizing his musical talent and street smarts, Shabu concocts a plan to both make the money and...
11) River
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth's rivers. Spanning six continents, this visual and musical tour-de-force is by turns celebratory, cautionary, and ultimately hopeful that we are beginning to understand rivers in all their complexity and fragility.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Throughout his life, Little Richard careened between religion, sex and rock 'n' roll. A treasure trove of archival material brings to life a revolutionary figure, one who reinvented popular music as the ultimate form of self-expression.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A landmark film breaks a world scoop about the deception which fooled Hitler about the Normandy landings of 1944. In a tale of double agents and decoys, the investigation reveals, for the first time, the identity of the most secret of them all: George VI.
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1985, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in a New Mexico home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A half-century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its vivid and compassionate...
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about notable firsts in Black American history. Who was the "Mother of Black Literature?" Who was the first Black senator? What were the first Black universities and colleges established in the United States? Who was the first Black person to win an Academy Award? Who was the first Black Major League baseball player? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with an exciting...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVD (61 min.) : sound, color with black and white seqeunces ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During August and September 2001 (a six week underwater expedition), Cameron and a group of scientists staged an expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic (12,500 feet to the wreckage of the Titanic), and dived in Russian deep-submersibles to obtain more detailed images than anyone had before. With the help of two small, purpose-built remotely operated vehicles, nicknamed "Jake" and "Elwood", the audience too can see inside the Titanic, and with...
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