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3201) After the Apology
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The removal of Indigenous children from their families has increased at an exponential rate since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. In this riveting documentary, a group of Aboriginal women challenge government policies to bring their grandchildren home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb skyrocketing rates of child removal. Suellyn Tighe thought the NSW Department...
3202) Go Grandriders
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In GO GRANDRIDERS, a group of 17 senior citizens, many of them learn how to ride a motorcycle for the first time, embark on what may be the most daring adventures of their lives: a 13-day-entirely-on-motorcycle tour around the island of Taiwan. Among these 17 Grandriders, two have had cancer, four need hearing aids, five suffer from high blood pressure, eight have coronary disease, and every one of them has symptoms of joint degeneration. However,...
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1791, the Queen was the first convict ship to take convict women directly from Ireland. It was a time of intense unrest, and the ruling class and the state dealt swiftly with crime of any kind. Transportation provided one solution for dealing with rebels, law breakers and the troublesome poor and it became increasingly so as the labour of convicts could be used to fuel the development of the new Australian colonies.
3205) Bleeding Audio
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From inspiring triumphs to heartbreaking setbacks, BLEEDING AUDIO relives the explosive career of The Matches and explores what it means to succeed in the digital age of music.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form, and his cult status continues long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004. Newton worked around the globe, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angeles, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work. Newton's unique and striking way of depicting women has always posed the question: did he empower his subjects...
3208) Why It Matters
Publisher
TVF
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What is the Metaverse? How can we live past 100? And what can we learn from the natural world around us? Join tech fanatic Joshua Lim on a journey to the future to discover the cutting-edge technologies which are changing the world as we know it.
3209) The Chocolate Diet
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Everyday, consumers are being fooled by dubious “scientific” studies. Whoever has science on his side can sell almost anything today: Whether it be yoghurt, cornflakes, milk, soy products – or diets. Honourable researchers have conducted extensive studies to “prove” so. But how scientific are these studies really? The advertising slogans are promising, the results – however – sobering. Exceedingly few obese people lose long-term weight...
3210) Crystal City
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Some call the 21st century the post-AIDS years, thanks to activism and new medications. New York and other centers of gay life have new generations of LGBTQ people who feel free and safe. Over the years, however, another ravaging threat has continued to rise: crystal meth, a synthetic drug that found quick and willing harbor in the gay dance and sex club scene. Delivering a manic rush to intensify physical and sexual activity, addiction is almost...
3211) Risk
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Jazz, the official symbol of American democracy abroad, splinters at home into different camps: white and black, cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. Miles Davis becomes the most influential musician of his generation.
3212) Bronx Obama
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn’t see himself – a middle-aged, unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx. He saw the face of change, of hope… of money. BRONX OBAMA tells the strange and improbable tale of a Barack Obama impersonator who tries to cash in on the “look of a lifetime” and chases a fevered American dream from opportunity to oblivion. “An...
3213) Tale of Two Systems
Publisher
Estuary Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
This documentary analyzes the issues involved in the acquisition and usage of raw materials in our market oriented society and its role in causing environmental destruction and war. It contrasts market oriented economic activity with socialist approach practiced by the USSR.
3214) ConTECHtual
Publisher
Seeker
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
ConTECHtual dives into the origins and evolutions of current technology, and examines potential for the future of the industry.
3215) Teached: Think of Calvin
Publisher
Loudspeaker Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a Friday night after a long week at work, Calvin Davis joined his family in Southwest Washington, DC for an informal gathering. Still wearing scrubs from his job at Children’s National Medical Center, Calvin caught up with an old friend while his two boys rode bikes around the block. When police followed his fifteen year-old home, pulling on gloves as they approached the teenager, Calvin intervened to ask “Why? What did he do?” How these...
3216) Water: Our Thirsty World
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD features the work of award-winning National Geographic photographers and examines the local and global challenges of our planet’s precious fresh water resources.
3217) Finding Vivian Maier
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews...
3218) Defining US
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This Documentary takes us inside the nations largest schools and to the front lines of a divisive war over race, education and national identity.
3219) This Land
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The lives of a diverse array of everyday Americans - including a Native American man grappling with his past, a bi-racial same-sex couple on opposite sides of the aisle, a Trump supporter fighting to bring his deported wife back home to their son, and more - are chronicled and examined in this fly-on-the-wall film shot on Election Day 2020 in nearly every state.
3220) Pretend play
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This consists of source material of children's pretend play featuring children from 20 months to 7 years. The 11 sequences can be used individually for observation. Also, as they are presented chronologically by age, they clearly show the developmental stages of pretend play. Sequences show learning taking place in all major areas, physical, cognitive, language, social, emotional and creative. There is also a good opportunity for discussion of gender...
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