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Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Americans and caused staggering economic damage. Where did we go wrong? As the presidential election nears, Americans are increasingly enraged by a lack of clear leadership left to wonder how did the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world manage to fail so thoroughly in its response to a global pandemic?
82) Citizen K
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After years of empirical observation, for the first time ever, prominent mental health professionals present their observations on camera as part of their ethical "Duty to Warn" the public of imminent danger. Medical doctors and mental health professionals go on camera, on the record, for the record - it's an eye-opening discussion, analysis, and science-based examination of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of President Donald Trump....
84) Betrayal
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
BETRAYAL: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union documents the human cost of the government takeover of the Teamsters union.The film follows highly regarded Teamster leader Bill Hogan Jr. who fought against government control and found himself targeted by a government appointed watchdog with sweeping power to remove members for life even if they were never accused of a crime. Hogan finds himself barred for life on baseless charges from...
85) 575 Castro St
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Harvey Milk is resurrected in this poignant short, which sets an original audiotape he recorded—to be played in the event of his assassination— in a recreation of his Castro Street camera shop.
86) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. Explore her unique and unknown personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court. Academy Award nominee. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convenience of the digital world. Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media posting? Don´t we care about our privacy anymore? In his unique, charming, and curious way, filmmaker Werner Boote travels around the world (USA, UK, China, Hong Kong, Austria,...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's Union Time, people!" — the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since its opening in 1993, employees of the plant have endured various abuses such as intimidation tactics, low pay, and dangerous working conditions which resulted in bodily injury and, on one occasion, death. Often treated as expendable, the workers came together and engaged in a 16-year-long struggle for the right...
89) Kinshasa Makambo
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Lingala
Description
Hundreds of young revolutionaries take to the streets of Kinshasa when Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, refuses to relinquish power at the end of his second term. Protests are met with violence, but the battle for free elections and democracy cannot be repressed.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) left a million dead and over 500,000 refugees. Mexico welcomed about 20,000. Among them were the filmmaker’s grandparents, parents, and some of their friends. IN EXILE: A FAMILY FILM tells some of the forgotten stories of memory and history -personal accounts that are intertwined with the shared history of Spain and Mexico from the time of Spanish King Alfonso XIII (1874-1923) through the present.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
THE COMING WAR ON CHINA, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war. Nuclear war is not only imaginable, but planned. The greatest build-up of NATO military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side...
92) Invisible Hands
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary exposes child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations, which produce some of our most loved items. Filmed across six countries, the documentary offers a harrowing account of children as young as five years old making the products we buy and consume every day. Chilling undercover footage shows children being sold like animals to the highest bidder and others being abused by...
93) Savior for Sale
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Salvator Mundi (The Savior of the World) became the world’s most expensive painting when it was sold at Christie’s for {dollar}450 million in 2017. Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, the painting unleashed passions while revealing the excesses of our time. But is it really the work of the Italian genius, or one of the greatest scams in the history of art? A modern tale of globalization, SAVIOR FOR SALE delves into the secrets of the art world and...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Now you must choose between pleading guilty and receiving a shorter sentence–or going to trial and risking decades behind bars. “THE VANISHING TRIAL” focuses on four individuals who were forced to make that excruciating choice. Each was threatened with a “trial penalty,” the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person receives if they exercise their constitutional right to trial instead of pleading guilty. We...
95) Leviathan
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, LEVIATHAN is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Directed by the award-winning filmmakers of *Sweetgrass* and *Foreign Parts*, LEVIATHAN is a purely visceral, cinematic experience. Nominated for the Truer Than FIction Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Winner of the Don Quixote Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the **Locarno...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the United States, there are more than 2 million people behind bars. That’s more than anywhere else in the world. 90% of prisoners serve time in one of the 1,700 State penitentiaries. This film documents life at Anamosa State Penitentiary, where three quarters of the prisoners have been convicted of violent crimes and serve an average of 27 years.
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
CAMP VICTORY, AFGHANISTAN is about the re-building of an army. With 300 hours of tape shot over years, filmmaker Carol Dysinger set out to tell this story from both an Afghan and American perspective through the eyes of two men. It is the first film to examine the training of the new Afghan military. It is also a story about the depths and limits of an unlikely friendship in war. **SXSW Film Festival** Grand Jury Award winner.
98) ReUnited States
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The REUNITED STATES is a feature documentary that profiles people who have dedicated their lives to promoting depolarization and de-escalation of our tensions across the political divide.
99) Combat Obscura
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An unvarnished perspective of the intensity and paradoxes of war shot by Marine Corps videographer Miles Lagoze. This ingeniously edited documentary is composed solely of footage the Corps did not intend for you to see. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the **Dallas International Film Festival.** *"...Lagoze detonates any lingering illusions of military heroism." - Lawrence Garcia, **AV Club*** *"An unfiltered tour-de-force...
100) Street Fight
Publisher
Marshall Curry Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar®-winning filmaker Marshall Curry, STREET FIGHT is a thrilling Academy Award®-nominated story of bare-knuckle politics in America. When a young unknown challenger named Cory Booker takes on the head of a powerful political machine, he discovers that sometimes elections are won and lost in the streets. Gritty, funny, and surprisingly inspirational, the film goes behind-the-scenes in a rough-and-tumble campaign in Newark, N.J. It...
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