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Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In September 2002, two women were found dead inside the Dolly Madison bakery in Great Bend, Kansas. 20 years later, a filmmaker attempting to shed light on the case finds there might be hidden reasons as to why it has remained unsolved all these years.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
The relationship between Ale and Rocío faces a big change when their mother is unjustly imprisoned, and they naturally become parents of their little brothers. First, all in good disposition and humor until their situation as illegal immigrants in Mexico is confronted with unexpected emotions and gender roles, discrimination, immigration systems, and inability to enjoy their youth let alone access to education. Eventually, the communication between...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Delbert, Bill, Lyman, and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their 99-acre dairy farm in Central New York State. Known by their neighbors as “The Ward Boys”, the brothers shared a two-room shack with no running water or indoor toilet for as long as anyone could remember. But their quiet life was shattered June 6, 1990, when Bill was found dead in the bed he shared with Delbert. By day’s end, Delbert had confessed...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets parole. But is it actually making our law enforcement and court systems fairer and more just? This timely investigation digs into the hidden biases, privacy risks, and design flaws of this controversial technology.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th century, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the device was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. Instead, the lie detector became an apparatus of fear and intimidation. The Lie Detector is a tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fuses studio re-enactments, interviews, archival, bodycam and CCTV footage to tell a radically new story about psychology’s bystander experiments. It begins in 1964 with the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in New York. Thirty-eight witnesses watched the attack – and did nothing. Allegedly. Psychologists claimed that the more onlookers on a scene, the less likely it was that any of them would help. Yet there is growing evidence to the contrary....
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of young African American men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait into the lives of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country not on their side.
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Explores the reality behind cocaine trafficking - from the perspectives of both the protagonists and antagonists. For the first time ever, the head of a Colombian cartel in Spain sits in front of a camera – a feat never managed before. Against the context of record numbers of cocaine confiscations in 2021, NARCOGALLEGOS is a thrilling exploration of the drug trade.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, a new cryptocurrency was unveiled: OneCoin. At mass events resembling religious gatherings, charismatic founder, Ruja Ignatova, claimed it was on course to become the world’s biggest digital currency and would change the world. In fact, it was a giant ponzi scheme. There was no blockchain, no pay-out system, nothing but the promise of fantastic rates of return. Ruja and her cronies invented a new, favourable exchange rate every day. And...
10) Southern Rites
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Broadcast nationally on HBO, SOUTHERN RITES is a powerful portrayal of how perceptions and politics have divided two towns in southeast Georgia along racial lines for years. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine published filmmaker and acclaimed photographer Gillian Laub’s controversial images of Montgomery County High School’s racially segregated proms. A media furor ensued and under extreme pressure, the Georgian town was forced to finally integrate...
11) Books, Crooks, and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
Author
Publisher
Quill Driver Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided along with excerpts of authentic courtroom dialogue. Topics covered include criminal and civil law; differences between federal, state, and Native American...
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brittney left her house unexpectedly in May 2012 in rural Alabama. She was never seen or heard from again. Her mother has campaigned for years to continue the search after the police gave up. Told emotionally by the family and captivating plot twists at the end of each episode, we discover the horrific truth Brittney’s entire family was hiding. Almost all her relatives were implicated in Alabama’s largest child sex ring, and in May 2012, young...
13) Betting on Zero
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From ‘Darfur Now’ writer/director Ted Braun comes a riveting docu-thriller following controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history. Herbalife claims Ackman is simply a market manipulator out to make a fortune from short-selling their stock, but Ackman insists Herbalife deliberately targets low-income and immigrant communities and robs...
14) Another Body
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfakes of herself circulating online. Through candid video diaries, synthetic media, and 2D and 3D animation, the film takes you into Taylor's online and offline worlds, humanizing a vast social issue in a compelling personal story.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meet Roger Cox, the first and only lawyer to have successfully sued both a government and an oil giant in court to establish that climate inaction can be made illegal. His ground-breaking case against the Dutch government and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been foundational in determining that even private entities owe a duty of care to citizens to avoid catastrophic climate change, which stunned legal experts and sent shockwaves through parliaments...
19) Hold Your Fire
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn, 1973. When Shu’aib Raheem and his friends attempted to steal guns for self-defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to avert a bloodbath, reform police methods, and save the lives of hostages, police, and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The real-time accounts of the response, missteps, and trauma in the Uvalde school shooting. Using official body cam and audio, with ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, a reconstruction of the chaotic response at Robb Elementary and the lessons learned.
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