Kanopy (Firm)
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize.
25682) She Always Wins
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
All the complicated moves in the dance of dominance, deference and self-diminishment that takes place when a young woman brings her new boyfriend on his first family visit are captured in SHE ALWAYS WINS.
25683) American Religiosity
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Different perspectives from three experts across different disciplines on how America's attitudes towards religion are different from other industrialized countries. This compilation provides thought-proving insights from historian David Hollinger, author Matthew Stewart and primatologist Frans de Waal.
25684) 1618
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The Inquisition continues the persecution of Portuguese Jews, sending Visitador Sebastião Noronha to the city of Oporto. With his family and community in danger, António Álvares, decides to outline an escape plan.
25685) Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
Français
Description
A worried husband (Gérard Depardieu) finds a lover for his depressed wife (Carole Laure), but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes, USA**. "*...it remains the purest expression of Blier's comic métier, treating naughty ideas with the straightest of faces.*"- Robert Abele, ***The...
25687) Welcome To Chechnya
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With searing urgency, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ purge raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
25688) The Battle of China
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
25689) Topside
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five-year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. When a sudden eviction forces them above ground, their world is thrown into unimaginable chaos.
25690) The Chef’s Wife
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her role as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.
25691) The Wisdom of Trauma
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness in any given year. In the US, death by suicide is the second most common cause of death for those aged 15-24, killing over 48,000. Annually, drug overdose kill 81,000 in the US. The autoimmunity epidemic affects 24 million people in the US. What is going on? The interconnected epidemics of anxiety, chronic illness, and substance abuse are, according to Dr. Gabor Maté, normal. But not in the...
25692) Ensemble
Publisher
Les Films du 3 Mars
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Autumn of 2017. The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal begins its first international tour of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls. This series of concerts is the crowning and paroxysm of the rich relationship between the musicians and their leader, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Over four seasons, Jean-Nicolas Orhon’s camera follows the preparation of this international adventure and gently penetrates the daily life of the orchestra. ENSEMBLE...
25694) Savage State
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of french settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They're escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
In his London studio, British painter Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester, a friend and close observer of his art since the late 1940s. Central to their conversation are Bacon’s controversial, horrifying subjects, and surprising style. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him, in his view, to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that...
25696) Jumbo
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated with carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That's when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park's new flagship attraction.
25697) Icarus
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Mathias is eight and lives with his divorced mother in East Berlin. One day, he pays his father a surprise visit. When he opens the door, his father is confused—and Mathias notices that a strange woman is there. When he sees Mathias looking at a picture of ICARUS, he distracts the boy from the situation and tells him the legend of ICARUS. When his father promises him a sightseeing flight on his upcoming birthday, Mathias is excited; but it breaks...
25698) The Benefactor
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Golden Globe-winning actor Richard Gere (*Chicago, Pretty Woman*) and Dakota Fanning (*The Twilight Saga, Coraline*) star with Theo James (*Divergent*) in this mysterious drama that follows a philanthropist who meddles in the lives of a newly-married couple in an attempt to relive his past. Nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival** "*...A surprising and graceful first fiction feature for writer-director Andrew Renzi*."...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The third hour in the series marks an era of great commercial and manufacturing growth throughout several regions on the continent. It begins with the revolutionary transformation of North and West Africa. On the shores of the Sahara Desert, farmers, traders, warriors and nomads turned this region into the crossroads of some of history’s most advanced, and wealthiest, civilizations. Intricate networks of long distance trade would link up productive...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anne Braden: southern patriot provides a moving, in-depth biography of an organizer and journalist who for a remarkable 60 years participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in this country's most conservative region - the South. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. praised her steadfast activism in support of civil rights and civil liberties, but she was threatened, attacked, indicted and labeled a "Communist agitator"...