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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Elder Project follows seven diverse seniors over two years and records their experiences through a series of short and candid episodic stories. As they face the possibility of increasing frailty and transitioning into more dependent-living scenarios, the elders talk of their concerns and eloquently express their desire to grow older with dignity and some control over their future.
2) Old
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Flying in the face of this culture’s extreme ageism, STILL DOING IT explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, nine extraordinary women, 67-87, express with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves, sex and love in later life and the poignant realities of aging. Outspoken for their generation these women mark a sea change. Women over 65 are already the fastest growing segment of the population...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This documentary takes a rare and intimate look at the life of a 73 year old pensioner currently living in Bulgaria following the collapse of the former Soviet Union. We follow Ephtim D. from the meager dinner table where he and his wife dine on some bread with a little margerine and garlic, to the park where he walks his dog and meets his friends.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- the likelihood that she will not outlive her daughter and the need to find her a new home. Filmmaker Sophie Sartain, Mimi and Dona's granddaughter and niece, respectively, captures the quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo at their most poignant...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An old Bolivian man nears the end of his life. He has property and status, but not contentment. Believing himself posessed by evil spirits, he opens his heart to reveal his anguish. His personal tragedy brings us close to every man's confrontation with the unknown, old age, and death.
7) Tokyo story
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
日本語
Description
An aging couple visit their grown children in postwar Tokyo, but find that their children are too busy to spend time with them.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a meager apartment on the outskirts of New York City lives a quiet, old man who was once President of an African country.Former law professor and Supreme Court justice David Kpormakpor served as Interim President of Liberia between 1994-95, during its disastrous civil war. He now lives alone, on welfare, among thousands of Liberian refugees, many of whom question why he did not simply take the money and run when he had the chance.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
11) So late so soon
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming interruptions to his health. Director Daniel Hymanson filmed...
12) Cry macho
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
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