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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
David Lewis is a grieving widower on the brink of a breakdown, who continues to "see" his late wife two years after her death. As he withdraws further into his fantasy world, he leaves his neglected daughter behind. Hoping to help him, David's meddling in-laws bring an uninvited guest and a hidden agenda for a weekend at David's beach house.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a 'republic of suffering' and will chart the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War.
4) Nightingale
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A war veteran is anticipating the arrival of an old friend and in the process starts to unravel.
6) Alps
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Greek
Description
Four people form a secret society in which they take on the roles of dead people to provide comfort for grieving families.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In this inspired, genre-twisting film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets behind a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions.
8) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Experts investigate the psychological and neurobiological basis for evil. Using cutting-edge functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques, scientists attempt to isolate the mechanics of moral judgment by mapping patterns in neurological processes.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
c1952
Language
English
Description
A drama about a successful but disillusioned writer who is near death from a hunting wound in Africa and who reviews his amorous intrigues and his experiences as hunter and world traveler. Filmed in part in Africa, Paris, and on the Riviera.
13) 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.
14) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
A bombardier during WWII tries desperately to be declared insane so he can go home. A dark comedy depicting the insanity of war. Based on Joseph Heller's book.
16) Brains on trial
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Takes a fictitious crime and builds from it a gripping courtroom drama. The trial takes us into the brains of the major participants-defendant, witnesses, jurors, judge-while Alan Alda visits the laboratories of some dozen neuroscientists exploring how brains work when they become entangled with the law. The research raises the controversial question: How does our ability to peer into people's minds and decode their thoughts and feelings affect trials...
20) The war at home
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Estevez plays a returning Vietnam War hero whose haunting experiences leave him unable to adjust to the quiet reality of small town.
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