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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eight professors of color discuss the special pressures minority faculty face in majority white institutions. Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty. Across America campus diversity is under attack; affirmative action programs are banned, ethnic studies departments defunded, multicultural scholarship impugned....
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's the debate of the ages; this time, held in a seemingly insignificant venue, but the outcome, as always, will be life-changing. A Christian college freshman Josh Wheaton and his atheist Philosophy Professor, hold court on the existence of God. To pass the course, Josh must prove to the class that God is alive and well. This dare could cost him his relationships, his career, even his future, but Josh stands up for his faith and takes on the challenge....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Philosophy professor Abe Lucas is at rock bottom emotionally, unable to find any meaning or joy in life. He feels that everything he's tried to do from political activism to teaching hasn't made any difference. Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards, a lonely professor who is unhappy in her marriage; and Jill Pollard, his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
As the body count rises, Frank, Bonnie and the Keating Five dive into a docket of daunting new cases. Meanwhile, the shocking discovery of who killed Rebecca leads into the mystery of who shot Annalise. Instead of answers, this stunning development will set the stage for a series of shicking secrets, bitter betrayals and gasp-worthy revelations that will prove beyond all reasonable doubt, that under the right circumstances, anyone can be a killer....
8) Butley
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A gay college teacher in London is left by his boyfriend, finds out his ex-wife is remarrying and that a less esteemed colleague is having a work published--all in one day.
9) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
10) Professor T
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Follows Professor Jasper Tempest, a brilliant Cambridge University criminologist with OCD, as he helps police investigate their most difficult cases.
11) Irrational man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A philosophy professor experiences an existential crisis until he discovers new purpose in life when he begins dating one of his students.
12) The professor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After learning he has six months left to live, a quiet college professor decides to change his life and begins rebelling against the school and society.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
With her mother about to depart for a new life in Canada, college student Haewon is in quite a state. She seeks out Director Lee, her film professor whom she still sees, even though their relationship officially ended more than a year ago. As she considers a new future with him, Haewon drifts in and out of dreams and has a series of encounters: with a professor who teaches in America and knows Martin Scorsese, with a friend locked in a long-term relationship...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Luchino Visconti's award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions - her lover, her daughter and the daugther's boyfriend - he is forced to rent them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. Before long his quiet routine is turned upside down and the introverted professor becomes...
18) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that opens old wounds and forces them to address the issues...
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