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601) Putin’s Witnesses
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A fascinating look at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and in some cases shaped these events, is he in some way complicit?
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Can the world's most widely accessed collection of information be trusted? And if not, is it possible to change it for the better? In 2001, Jimmy Wales created the first entry on Wikipedia: "Hello world". 20 years later, Wikipedia contains more than 50 million articles with English Wikipedia alone getting more than 300 million clicks per day, and has the professed goal of being free, democratic, and neutral. But is it reliable as a source of factual...
603) The First 54 Years
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
“Military occupation” is an abstract term, open to mistaken interpretation. What does “occupation” imply? What does it mean for people living under occupation? What means must be employed so that occupation can be implemented? This film instills meaning in the term “occupation” in the form of a “manual for military occupation” derived from the testimonies of those people who implemented it in practice. Director Avi Mograbi hosts the...
604) F@ck This Job
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Moscow, 2008. Meet Natasha Sindeyeva, 35: a confident woman originally from Michurinsk and now the brand new wife of a successful banker. One day, she decides to launch an independent news TV station. F@CK THIS JOB follows Natasha and Dozhd from its birth to the days that perhaps foreshadowed its death.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Narrated by Kate Winslet, this entertaining and surprising documentary will challenge the way you look at the food industry. What is the true cost of food? Who pays the price? Featuring shocking undercover footage and poignant first-hand accounts from indigenous people, this one-of-a-kind documentary will permanently change your perception of food and its connection to the future of our planet.
606) Bulky Trash
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
East Berlin, summer 1989: A young East Berliner navigates the final months of the GDR. Enrico has quit his apprenticeship to focus on the punk band Sperrmüll (BULKY TRASH), which he founded with three friends from their high-rise housing development. Making music with what other people discard helps him let off steam and frustrations with his family, politics and his country. When his mother and sister move to West Berlin, he holds on to his beliefs...
607) Planetarium
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Two sisters living in Paris during the late 1930’s, possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. After a world tour performing seances for socialites, they meet a visionary French producer who hires them to shoot an ambitious experimental film. What they perceive as a perfect opportunity to gain recognition, soon spirals into a game of hidden agendas that tests human limits and social values.
608) Chocolate Road
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A discovery of where chocolate comes from. Three renowned chocolatiers - Maribel Lieberman, Susumu Koyama and Mikkel Friis-Holm - take us through the process of craft chocolate-making, starting from the plantations, through the different stages of preparation of the beans and all the way to the final chocolate pieces. On their journey each of them finds how important it is to know the roots of their prime material - the cacao bean, and the social...
609) Hollywood on Trial
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Is our First Amendment right as protected as we think? Telling the story of the Hollywood 10, this classic documentary explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee was able to summon before it American citizens of the motion picture industry and interrogate them about their political affiliations and beliefs. Featuring interviews with Dalton Trumbo and other prominent screenwriters.
610) Ice age footprints
Publisher
PBS
Formats
Description
Thousands of prehistoric footprints left by Ice Age humans and animals stretch for miles across the blinding white surfaces of New Mexico's White Sands National Park. The phenomenal collection of prints preserves a unique series of snapshots of life and behavior, capturing moments when humans crossed paths with extinct Ice Age beasts, including enormous ground sloths and mammoths.
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
In the United States, some 10% of people who wish to have children struggle with infertility. NOVA explores barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological, and the state of assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS was the sensational case that rocked the nation in the early 1980’s with rumors of Ku Klux Klan serial murders of at least 28 black children, adolescents and adults. The inability of the authorities to stop the murders and solve the cases over a two-year period and the controversial trial of Wayne Williams were the biggest media event in America at the time, with the Governor of Georgia, Vice President George Bush, Muhammad...
613) It'll Be OK
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Director Bernd Sahling documents almost four years in the life of a young man who experienced two political systems, East and West Germany, and cannot fulfill his dreams in either of them. Michael has had a difficult childhood and decides to become a punk at the age of 13. He wants to be independent of his mother and find his own way in life. But he feels that he is good for nothing and has no place in East German society. Being aggressive and provocative...
614) Theaters of War
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
If you’ve seen "Top Gun" or "Transformers," you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? With the release of a vast new trove of internal government documents, the answers have come into sharp focus: the US military has exercised editorial control over thousands of films and television programs. Propelled into a field trip across America, media...
615) The Marx Family
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (7 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Filmed using an old hand-cranked Parvo L camera and radical montage strategies, this short is an experimental and alternative portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their poor living conditions during their long years in London. Original personal texts by the philosopher and his wife combine with historical photographs overlaying images of an abandoned East Berlin building. This short was produced to celebrate Marx’s 100th birthday in 1983, but officials...
616) Antisemitism
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This documentary masterfully traces the history of anti-Semitism and its effects, from cartoon-like medieval church iconography showing Jews with funnels on their heads, to WWII propaganda comparing Jews to rats and neo-Nazis marching in the streets of modern day France.
617) Dear Future Children
Publisher
Magnet Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With global protests on the rise, DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is a film about the new generation at the heart of this seismic political shift. We will watch as Rayen protests for social justice in Chile, Pepper fights for democracy in Hong Kong and Hilda battles the devastating consequences of climate change in Uganda. Facing almost impossible odds and grappling with the staggering impact of their activism on their personal lives, we will be asking these...
618) A Matter of Respect
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A young drummer and dancer guides tourists through a museum, a silver carver/disc jockey talks about his love both of rock and roll and traditional carving, and a Tlingit elder teaches children at a summer fish camp. A MATTER OF RESPECT portrays a diverse group of people expressing their culture and identity and honoring their ancestors' way of life through teaching language, harvesting and preparing traditional foods, restoring community cemeteries...
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