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1) Party Dream
Author
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The story of Gil Mantera's Party Dream - the craziest live band you've never seen. Footage from their insane live show provides a vicarious thrill, fueled by electronic rock, ridiculous fashion and no small amount of booze.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?
Author
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In an age where synthetic drugs and pharmaceutical companies are swamping the human race, medicinal cannabis, amongst other incredible natural pharmacopeias, may be the key to reclaiming our freedom and healing our bodies. This powerhouse new documentary, the follow-up film to The Magic Pill, takes us on an epic journey of discovery into the natural world of plant medicine.
Author
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Chinese scientist disappears after developing the first designer babies, shocking the world and the entire scientific community, but an investigation shows he may not have been alone in his experiment to create "better" human beings.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella Valley. In exploring the Valley's history as well its imperiled future, this riveting documentary uncovers an imminent environmental and social crisis, and the looming consequences for the people who call it home.
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary THE OVERNIGHTERS is a portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning documentary feature film that gives viewers a glimpse of what it’s like to experience the world through the eyes of Callie Truelove, an angelic teenage girl with a rare genetic disorder known as Williams syndrome, that gives her the superpower of LOVE! Rooted in a deletion of a group of specific genes on chromosome #7, this condition can manifest in devastating physical and developmental challenges, but it also often comes with...
10) Pony Boys
Publisher
Twin Seas Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A delightful true story about two Massachusetts boys – 9 and 11 – who set off on an improbable journey with their family pet, a Shetland pony named King. Summer, 1967. Tony and Jeff Whittemore are desperate to visit Expo ’67 in Montreal – the largest World’s Fair ever. But their parents can’t take them. Then their mom comes up with the solution: hitch King to a pony cart and drive 350 miles to Expo ’67 – on their own – at 5 m.p.h.!...
11) Adventure Heals
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Surviving cancer doesn't mean the hardest part is over. Life continues with its unique challenges. Finding a support system & finding new experiences to dive into can help with overcoming some of these challenges. These survivors are finding their support system & their courage - in the water & in the air!
12) The Mission
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent across the world to preach their gospel. Sundance Film Festival selection THE MISSION follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of Europe’s most private and secular people. Tania Anderson's film tracks these wide-eyed, impassioned teens on their two-year rite of passage, as they struggle...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brewing a great-tasting beer requires more than hops and barley. It takes innovation and an artist's vision to create a brew that stands out from the rest. That's why the art of beer making has played an integral part in establishing Tampa Bay as one of the top craft beer scenes in the country.
15) Invisible
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive feature documentary that tells the often ignored stories of people living with a devastating syndrome that many still believe doesn’t exist. The film also exposes the fight with insurance and drug companies for proper treatment and how access to holistic health and education is determined by class and money. Through his journey to better understand Fibromyalgia as a way of helping his mother, filmmaker Nick Demos finally...
16) Abraham Lincoln
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's iconic 16th president. Across three two-hour episodes, the mini-series immerses viewers into the world and story of Abe before Lincoln. A young man looking to make his mark, who grows into a leader.
17) Out of Omaha
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
OUT OF OMAHA is an intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, two young black men coming of age in the racially and economically-divided Midwestern city of Omaha, Nebraska. Director Clay Tweel (GLEASON, FINDERS KEEPERS, THE INNOCENT MAN) met the Trotters when they were 17 and filmed them over a period of eight years. By intimately portraying the twins’ hopes and struggles – and the love and help they give and get along the...
18) Cow
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold’s first documentary immerses the audience in life on a dairy farm in rural England through the eyes of Luma, a cow. Empathetic and nearly wordless, the film opens during calving season and captures a world of animal existence that is ordered around service to humans.
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Australian-born PETER ALLEN had one of the all-time classic international showbusiness careers making a name for himself with songs such as I GO TO RIO, I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME and the Academy Award winning BEST THAT YOU CAN DO (ARTHUR'S THEME). Always remembered for his exuberant and energetic style, his life also brings into focus some of the broader social issues of the age. Featuring footage covering thirty years of his life this DVD depicts...
20) Canadian Wilds
Publisher
Animalogic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Canada is home to some of the most amazing species on the planet. In Ontario’s boreal forest, we come up close and personal with one of the largest terrestrial animals in the world, the moose. Up in Churchill, Manitoba you’ll meet the king of the bears, the Polar Bear. And finally, out west, come face to face with the funniest little rodents you’ll ever see, the Marmots.
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