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Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is the definitive documentary on 'smart' meters and the eye-opening story behind the 'smart' grid. With 20% new content, this streamlined 83 minute film presents shocking facts and first-hand evidence of surveillance, corruption, skyrocketing bills, dangerous vulnerability, extortion, and even thousands of house fires and explosions.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Chapter 1 is treatment on 'Human Nature,' noting that our social traditions are out of line with what constitutes positive human development. Chapter 2 details the core flaws of our economic system and how it is destroying us and the planet. Chapter 3 begins a thought exercise on our modern scientific understanding. Chapter 4 sets predictions of what is to come as society becomes more destabilized due to our outdated practices.
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In this new documentary, Paula Weiman-Kelman tells three stories of spiritual innovation, focusing on young Jews in Israel, Canada and the US. These stories - vibrant, quirky, moving - are braided together, like the fringes of a tallit, to create an inspiring portrait of cutting-edge Judaism in the 21st century."--Container.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"Recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places: Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David...
6) The hilltops
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
עברית
Description
"The Israeli/Palestinian conflict unfolds in front of the camera in this powerful drama as viewers get a rare, no-holds-barred look into the lives of illegal Jewish settlements on the West Bank, populated by those who stare down the future of the Middle East peace process from up on their hilltops."--Container.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"[F]ilmmaker Arnon Goldfinger travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of his recently-deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. ... Goldfinger begins an unsettling journey into his family's history ... and discovers that knowing the truth can be a terrible burden. ... The Flat is a real-life suspense story about how the past can return to haunt the present."--Container.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features former 'Economic Hitman' and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with the Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by industrial designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the first explains 'Fractional reserve banking' and how debt and bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The second exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system.
9) Advocate
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
עברית
Description
Profiles Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Utilities around the world are racing to install smart utility meters, which are emerging as anything but smart. This documentary uncovers shocking evidence of in-home privacy, increased utility bills, health risks such as cancer, environmental harm, fires, and unprecedented hacking vulnerability, while lighting the path toward solutions. With compelling insight from whistleblowers, researchers, government agents, lawyers, doctors, and environmentalists....
11) The gatekeepers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
עברית
Appears on list
Description
"Charged with overeseeing Israel's war on terror, both Palestinian and Jewish, the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's Secret Service, is present at the crossroads for every decision made. This documentary features interviews with six former heads of the agency who have agreed to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The Gatekeepers offers and exclusive account of the sum of their successes and failures. It validates...
12) What the health
Publisher
A.U.M. Films
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
"What the health is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation's health and how big business influences it"--Container.
13) Dancing in Jaffa
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After decades abroad, renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine returns to his hometown of Jaffa, Israel, nostalgic for the streets of his youth but dismayed by the strong current of racial animosity that now serves as the norm. Fueled by his belief in dancing's power to build self-esteem and social awareness, Dulaine brings his popular Dancing Classrooms program to three diverse, Jaffa-based schools where he teaches ballroom basics to the ethnically...
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