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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
American public education is in controversy. As public schools across the country struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, some question the future and effectiveness of public schools in the U.S. For free-market reformers, private investors and large education corporations, this controversy spells opportunity in turning public schools over to private interests. Education, Inc. examines the free-market and for-profit...
Publisher
WheresMyDream, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An entertaining but hard-hitting look at the scam that is America's financial system. -- A 30 minute animated film that shows how people have been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows why our dream is getting farther and farther away.
Publisher
Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Roberto Miniverni tells the story of a black community in the American South during summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of young African American men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country that is not on their side.
4) Dioses
Series
Publisher
The Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Diego is in love with his sister Andrea. Andrea has her own secrets to deal with. Agustín, their father, has brought home Elísa, his new girlfriend, twenty years younger and of a different social and economic status. A family is caught up in Peruvian upper-class society -- a chronicle of decadence, hypocrisy, and conformity.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it is on the other hand still considered an elitist or hermetic language by audiences intimidated by its lack of recognizable subject matter. Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative...
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This film offers unprecedented access to a small community of talented craftsmen, known as tentmakers, who practice the uniquely Egyptian art of Khayamiya, or hand stitched applique. In a small covered market, in the heart of Old Islamic Cairo, four tentmakers expertly stitch ornate Islamic designs, as their centuries-old craft collides with a 21st century revolution. Historically, Khayamiya was used to decorate the interiors of tents, and is an important...
7) State 194
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad launched a plan to demonstrate that his people were deserving of statehood, inspiring them to change their destiny and seek UN membership. Since then, they've made remarkable progress, but the political quagmire and Fayyad's recent resignation from office may destroy the most promising opportunity for peace in years.
8) Mambo man
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Based on a true story. In 2017, after more than half a century since Castro’s revolution, Cuba opens her arms to the West and the Yankee dollar. Born into communism, JC (Héctor Noas) is a ‘big fish in a small pond’ – a local music producer and promoter, farmer and small-time hustler who lives by his wits and imagination. To support his family and small circle of ‘business associates’ and maintain his local “Godfather” status, JC lives...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide, Ltd. Film
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges: that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources.
10) Beaufort
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Beaufort chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit's tense, painful withdrawal in 2000 from a strategic bunker inside a 12th century Crusader fortress near the Lebanese border, marking the end of nearly two decades of controversial occupation.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Great White Hoax, featuring acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores how American political leaders of both parties have been tapping into white anxiety, stoking white grievance, and scapegoating people of color for decades to divide and conquer working class voters and shore up political support. The film's primary focus is Donald Trump's race-baiting 2016 campaign for the presidency. But it also widens its scope to show how...
12) Armadillo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Danish
Description
The first documentary ever chosen to compete in the International Critics' Week at Cannes (where it won the grand prize), Janus Metz's Armadillo follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. An intimate, visually stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare, the film premiered at the top of the box office in Denmark, provoking a national debate over government policy and the rules of...
Publisher
Riot Studios
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"It's time for a college road trip like you've never seen before. Michael B. Allen, Austin Meek, Will Bakke, and Lawson Hopkins have grown up with all the right answers about God, but have yet to really ask any questions. With a free summer, a working car, and a camera in hand, they'll travel the country asking 'Who is God? Where is He? And how is He influencing America?' In this hilarious and thought-provoking journey, they'll find refuge with Mormons,...
14) Zelensky
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The documentary focuses on the president of Ukraine, a man who has become a model of leadership and bravery in the face of great adversity.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be young, black, male and dare to step out of invisibility? Finding the Gold Within follows six Black men from Akron, Ohio, through their first years of college. Despite their high levels of confidence and critical thinking, the stark reality of being away from their families and communities brings a series of crises. A sister dies in a car accident; a home gets broken into, a brush with the law, racial jokes and provocations...
17) No end in sight
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An insider's look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officals, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy - the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the...
18) Meet the Fokkens
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meet Louise and Martine Fokkens: 69-year-old identical twins who have worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district for over 50 years. Louise is newly retired due to arthritis ("I couldn't get one leg over the other"), but Martine carries on, unable to support herself on a state pension. Between explicit scenes of her daily grind, she and Louise stroll the city in matching outfits, recounting hilariously ribald stories from a lifetime of...
Publisher
Art21,Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Meet diverse contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes.
20) I am a girl
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
There is a group of people in the world today who are more persecuted than anyone else, but they are not political or religious activists. They are girls. Being born a girl means you are more likely to be subjected to violence, disease, poverty and disadvantage than any other group on Earth. In I AM A GIRL, we meet 14-year-old Kimsey from Cambodia, forced to sell her virginity at 12; Aziza from Afghanistan, who will be shot if she goes to school;...
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