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41) Game Girls
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
GAME GIRLS follows Teri and her girlfriend Tiahna as they navigate their relationship through the chaotic world of Los Angeles' Skid Row, aka the "homeless capital of the U.S." Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
42) The China Hustle
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the producers of ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, a Wall Street heist story about Chinese companies, the US stock market and a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Lobodocs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A gripping portrait of trauma and resilience of the Rohingya people in the world's largest refugee camp. The film approaches the Rohingya crisis from the personal point of view of the victims. Gang rape survivors talk directly to the camera with unprecedented candor. Building upon a heartening thought from Albert Camus, the documentary follows a dramatic arc from hell to redemption, with stories of survival and endurance. Harrowing yet uplifting,...
44) Pelosi's Power
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Powerful and polarizing, explore House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s life and legacy. Across three decades, examine how Pelosi has gained and wielded power and faced grave challenges to her leadership and to American democracy from Trump and his allies.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) wreaked havoc on the West Coast. Leaving behind a trove of paranoid recordings and scores of violent acts, including the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst who would join the SLA under the alias "Tania." Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jowan Safadi is a famous and controversial Palestinian-Israeli musician. His lyrics and songs are heavily critical of the situation in the territory. Investigated for “incitement to terrorism” and arrested on occasion, he must take care of his teenage son and is forced to face parental responsibilities while continuing to fight for his ideals. With his band Fish Samak, Jowan Safadi creates songs that speak about politics and society, and have...
48) Church & State
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
CHURCH & STATE is the story of the battle over the ruling that legalized gay marriage in Utah that shook the state and changed the nation.
49) Burn
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From executive producer Denis Leary, BURN is an action-packed, award-winning film exploring human struggles, hope and personal courage in the face of overwhelming odds. With vast stretches of abandoned buildings, the highest arson rate in the country, and a budget crisis of epic proportions, these brave men and women risk injury, disablement, and death to try and make a difference for the city they call home. The firefighters’ worst fears are realized...
50) The Last Rhino
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sudan is the very last male Northern White Rhino. His amazing story is told through the global cast of people involved in Sudan’s life of 43 years. He was aged 2 when snatched from his mom’s side in Central Africa and became a prized exhibit in a zoo behind the Iron Curtain while the rest of his kind was poached to extinction. Now Sudan is the focus of an 11th hour battle to save his sub-species.
51) I'm with Phil
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a New Yorker named Phil Campbell discovers a rural town in Alabama that shares his name, he invites Phil Campbells from all over the world to join him there. The town starts preparing for the hoedown and the arrival of the Phil Campbells, but then a tornado strikes the town; an unimaginably horrible tornado, killing 27 people. And in a town of barely 1,000, everybody knew the victims. Nobody in the area has ever seen anything like it. Hailing...
52) Mosul
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inside the brutal battle to defeat ISIS in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Filmed across the entire nine-month campaign, the documentary features extraordinary combat footage of one Iraqi Special Forces unit that bore the brunt of the fighting.
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the Presidential race and the timeless Scottish countryside to explore the troubling confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and Donald Trump. “There could not be a more important film than this,” wrote Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, yet the film was temporarily shut down following legal threats from the Trump Organization. As thousands of journalists hang...
55) American Dharma
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winning Director Errol Morris faces off with controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump adviser, Steve Bannon. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**, **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **The New York Film Festival**.
56) One October
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical time capsule that offers a window into the shifting heart of New York City. Filmed entirely in October of 2008, a time when gentrification was rapidly displacing the working and middle classes, Wall Street was plummeting, and Senator Obama was making his first presidential bid. The story begins with Clay Pigeon, an intrepid radio host who takes to the streets of New York City to talk to everyday citizens who are facing the uncertainty of...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After one unassuming Chinese language teacher defected and spoke up against the Chinese government's multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute (CI) program, One of Canada's top 10 universities and its largest school board found themselves embroiled in a growing global controversy as scholars, parents, and officials question the CI program's political influence and true purpose.
58) Dream With Me
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Saba is one of the more than 800,000 "Dreamers" who took advantage of the DACA program in 2012. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama era program, provided some temporary protections to undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children. In 2017, the Trump administration made the decision to rescind DACA. With her immigration status once again in limbo, Saba must now face a new set of challenges.
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
LITTLE MISS WESTIE follows two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, school, dating and transitioning during the Trump era. Ren is competing in the Lil’ Miss Westie Pageant as the first out trans girl and her older brother Luca is coaching her on posing, makeup, and talent. He knows his stuff because he competed six years ago when he was living as a girl. Moving and unflinching, LITTLE MISS WESTIE challenges fundamental ideas about gender...
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