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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968. History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example.
4) Kissinger
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With Nixon embroiled in Watergate, Henry Kissinger was, for a time, the most powerful figure in the world. Even after leaving office he continued to act as counselor to successive presidents as well as governments around the globe. For many though, he is implicated in war crimes allegedly committed with his knowledge in countries from Cambodia to Chile. National Geographic peels away the mystique around the man who remains one of the most controversial...
Series
Criterion collection volume 998
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74; a music festival planned to accompany the Rumble in the Jungle, Muhammad Ali's heavyweight championship fight against George Foreman. This documentary captures the charismatic boxer training for one of the toughest bouts of his career.
6) Allies
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Allies is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity in the Labor Party; and the determination of Sir Robert Menzies to follow the US into Vietnam. It’s the story also of the “covert wars” in South-East...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"[A] passionate and astonishing speech, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail... This was a man delivering an attack on American foreign policy, and Britain's subscription to it, with a controlled anger and a deadly irony. And, paradoxically, it reminded us why Pinter is such a formidable dramatist. He used every weapon in his theatrical technique to reinforce his message. And, by the end, it was as if Pinter himself had been physically recharged...
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Alan Clay, a recently divorced American businessman who is sent overseas to pitch a state-of-the-art holographic teleconfrencing system to the king. Alan tries to navigate the country's unique customs and finds himself thrust into a series of wonderful misadventures.
10) The Reagan show
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning documentary about the original performer-president's role of a lifetime. Teasing apart the spectacle at the heart of finger-on-the-button global diplomacy, the film follows Ronald Reagan's rivalry with charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Chock full of wit and political irony, and told solely through 1980s network news and videotapes created by the Reagan administration itself, THE REAGAN SHOW explores Reagan's made-for-TV...
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
The murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has drawn the world's attention to the young Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). Frontline investigates the rise of MBS, his vision for the future, his handling of dissent, and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the journey of Belliveau and O'Donnell, two ordinary guys, as they set out to follow Polo's historic route. The film weaves footage from the duo's often perilous voyage with Marco Polo's descriptions and experiences. Detailed are their highs and lows as they retrace Polo's path, trying to see what he saw and feel what he must have felt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 130
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
RSDL dual-layer ed.
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
15) Gray's anatomy
Series
Criterion collection volume 618
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes together with one of cinema's boldest image makers, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which he chronicles his journey from diagnosis to treatment of a rare ocular condition.
16) Rambo III
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Ultimate Ed. ; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When Col. Sam Trautman is captured during a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo erupts into a one-man firestorm to rescue his former commanding officer and decimate the enemy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
War Made Easy exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people. Narrated by actor Sean Penn, and based on the acclaimed book by Norman Solomon, the film exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to reveal in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated and glamorized the pro-war messages...
18) The kite runner
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns...
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A one-hour special that explores the social background that makes this adventurous marriage seem thoroughly in keeping with the modern British Royal Family. It explores the remarkable lives of actress Meghan Markle, a powerful woman's rights campaigner, and Prince Harry, who has broken out of the royal straight jacket without losing his royal dignity.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Most people knew Abe Osheroff as an activist. For most of his 92 years - from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement, from the struggles for civil rights in Mississippi to his work for human rights in Nicaragua - Osheroff threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm. In this riveting and inspiring new film, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of his activism, exploring the ideas that animated...
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