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Publisher
Tristar
Pub. Date
2011, c1987
Language
English
Description
A twelve year old boy visits a missile silo and decides nothing means more to him than protesting these nuclear weapons. He finds an ally in Amazing Grace Smith, basketball superstar of the Boston Celtics, and together they prove that one person really can make a difference.
2) The signal
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nic, his girlfriend Haley and his buddy Jonah take a detour from an idyllic cross-country road trip when they are contacted by a mysterious hacker who has gained entry into MIT's most secretive networks. But after a rendezvous in an eerily isolated spot goes awry, Nic wakes to a living nightmare in an isolation unit. Interrogated by Dr. Wallace Damon, Nic soon realizes that the only way to decipher the past is to escape the present.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
English
Description
In an era where the American Dream seems to have faded into a dark new dawn, filmmakers Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan ponder what may have become of the world if the U.S. had never come into being. By creating an alternate history in which British forces kill General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, the filmmakers lay the groundwork for a thought-provoking meditation on the crucial role of the United States on the world...
4) Gray matter
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows filmmaker Joe Berlinger on his quest to find Vienna's Dr. Heinrich Gross, the alleged murderer of hundreds of children under the Nazi euthanasia program.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scientific genetics, little more than a century old, holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. It traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.
7) Going to war
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What is it really like to go to war? For millennia, only warriors could really answer that question. Now, a new PBS documentary takes viewers inside the experience of battle and reveals the soldier's experiences as never before. It helps viewers make sense of this paradox and get to the heart of what it is like to be a soldier in times of war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 25
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
9) Westworld
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"An Apology to Elephants explores the beauty and intelligence of elephants as well as threats to their survival. Focusing on the lives of elephants in captivity, the documentary tells the troubling story of what happens to elephants in the name of entertainment. An Apology to Elephants is an eye-opening film about the exploitation of elephants. It features beautiful footage from nature juxtaposed with disturbing behind-the-scenes video of the training...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A solutions-oriented documentary chronicling the current state of the U.S. meat industry. First explaining how America arrived at our current industrial system, the story shifts to the present day, showing the feedlots and confinement houses, not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, the film takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities, yet have the aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic...
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in the near-future, this series follows employees and patrons of Westworld, a vast theme park modeled after America's Wild West. Over the course of three seasons, Westworld's android "hosts" begin to display aberrant behavior that explodes in violence, and takes the battleground between humans and hosts into the real world.
Publisher
Ida's Memory LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A Journey Into the Holocaust is a detailed and deeply personal exploration into genocide and how something this atrocious happened, and continues to happen repeatedly, even today. First-time filmmaker Paul Bachow travels around the world and taps into a vast knowledge base of historians, psychologists, and data derived from countless interviews with experts from around the world. Facts are corroborated and woven with first-hand accounts of Holocaust...
16) Facing death
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of 'pulling the plug', do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal 'death panels' grabbed headlines last summer, but the real decisions of how we die, the questions that most of us prefer to put off, are being made quietly behind closed doors, increasingly on the floors of America's intensive care...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. Supported by affidavits...
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
"Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were victims of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who conducted sadistic experiments on human beings at Auschwitz concentration camp. Haunted ever since by these cruel acts, something even more shocking occurs: Eva finds the power to forgive him. Having finally liberated herself from her feelings of rage and victimhood, she becomes a tireless advocate of this new way of healing - but not everyone is ready...
20) Vegucated
Publisher
Kind Green Planet
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Vegucated is a feature-length documentary that follows three meat-and-cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured with true tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover hidden sides of animal agriculture and soon start to wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. Before long, they find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks before....
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