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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Documentary about the 1970s rock band Big Star (Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Andy Hummel, Jody Stephens), together less than four years and without mainstream success, but producing a body of work that influenced many other musicians.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
In El Salvador in the late '70s, one man was the voice of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the disappeared, all struggling under the corrupt Salvadoran government. Appointed Archbishop in early 1977, Monsenor Oscar Romero worked tirelessly and in constant personal peril until the day he was assassinated in March of 1980. Romero broke off ties with the military and aligned himself with the poor, delivering messages of hope in weekly sermons which...
Publisher
[Future Educational Films]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago, an 84 minute documentary, follows a diverse group of pilgrims, ages 3 to 73, from all over the world as they attempt to cross an entire country on foot, with only a backpack, a pair of boots, and an open mind"--Container.
5) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language.
9) Happiness
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy that centers around three sisters struggling to achieve happiness and middle class perfection.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows Phil Rosenthal, creator of the hit TV series Everybody Loves Raymond, in his attempt to translate Raymond into a Russian sitcom. Rosenthal goes on a hilarious, warm, and intimate journey to a distant land to help people that don't seem to want his help. Lost in Moscow, lost in his mission, lost in translation, Rosenthal tries to connect to his Russian colleagues but runs into unique characters and situations that conspire to drive him insane....
11) Tabloid
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary, and tied him to a bed to 'deprogram' his religious beliefs--by having nonstop sex with him. Director Errol Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to believe, the woman soon determines that she must escape at any cost.
13) The company men
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
14) The good earth
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A true story of a spectacularly charismatic con man's journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, all in the name of love. Based on the life of Steven Russell.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"The Hollywood Librarian is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of librarians. A vivid blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, it reveals the history and realities of librarianship in the entertaining and appealing context of American movies. Interviews with actual librarians, intercut with film clips of cinematic librarians, examine such issues as literature, books and reading, censorship, library funding, citizenship...
17) Bananas
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country.
18) Mariachi high
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The program documents a year in the life of Mariachi Halcon, a top-ranked competitive high school mariachi band in the rural ranching town of Zapata, Texas. Using the band and its music as a lens, this spirited documentary focuses on Mexican-American teenagers pursuing excellence and finding strength in themselves, as well as a connection to their cultural heritage.
19) On the road
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Traveling cross-country, young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.
20) Narco cultura
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become icons, glorified by musicians who praise their fame and success. In this new constituency, they represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by money, drugs, and violence. The film is an explosive look at the drug cartels' pop culture influence on both sides of the border as seen through the eyes of an LA narcocorrido singer and...
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