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Publisher
Kandoo Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In AMERICAN STREET KID, filmmaker Michael Leoni takes you on a journey into a world that most people don't know exists. A world where in order to survive, kids are forced to sell drugs, beg for money or sell their bodies. Their powerful stories are heartbreaking and their unrelenting hope and determination to create a better life shines through, in this true tale of love, friendship, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college,...
64) The Overnighters
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary THE OVERNIGHTERS is a portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
65) In the Sun
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (37 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
IN THE SUN is a poignant and inspiring documentary that lets viewers in on the personal skin health journeys of seven families facing extraordinary circumstances as they uncover the long-term effects of living IN THE SUN.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For the past century, Detroit's Cass Corridor was one of the roughest areas in the city. Known as a center of drugs and prostitution, this former red-light district was alternatively known as "Fire Alley," an acknowledgment of its status as the arson capital of Michigan. In 1963, the city's final incarnation of Chinatown was established in the Corridor, but by the end of the 1980s that particular enclave came to its demise. The Cass Corridor is experiencing...
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An amazing reunion of identical triplets, separated at birth to three different families, begins to unearth an unimaginable twisted secret. Nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program, Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary Storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (4 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Mauro Salcido Rodriguez performs "Amar Y Vivir" in Agua Prieta Mexico where he lived. This music video produced and directed by Harrod Blank, was filmed in 2005-6 but wasn't edited until 2014 by Benjamin Abrams. This short was made as a tribute to both Harrod's father Les Blank and Mauro who both passed away in 2013.
69) Fattitude
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
FATTITUDE is an eye-opening look at how popular media perpetuates fat hatred that results in a cultural bias and a civil rights issue for people living in fat bodies. Fat people are paid {dollar}1.25 less an hour than their thin counterparts and can still legally lose jobs just because they’re fat. Additionally, 1 in 3 doctors associates fat bodies with hostility, dishonesty and poor hygiene. FATTITUDE looks at how this systemic cultural prejudice...
70) My Brother
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
A touching experience for the film’s subjects and for its audience, My Brother follows a single unmarried woman, Gabriela, as she and her adoptive son, Alexey, decide to adopt a second boy, Mateo. Brazilian Filmmaker Alana Simões followed the lives of the family with her camera in hand for nine years, gathering more than 150 hours of footage. The result is a candid portrayal of the relationship between Alexey and Mateo, demonstrating what it means...
71) 306 Hollywood
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. 306 HOLLYWOOD transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of an Emerging International...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
THE LONGEVITY FILM investigates the complex topic of ageing and living well by documenting the longest lived, healthiest & happiest cultures from around the world.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Albuquerque’s Rusty Tidenberg, auto mechanic and drag-racing aficionado, shocked friends and family by coming out as trans. Followed for eight years by filmmaker Harrod Blank (son of Les Blank), Rusty guides us through the aftermath of her transition, as growing acceptance among her straight-talking Southwest community still doesn’t ease her romantic and professional woes. Interwoven with lively tales of gender non-conforming individuals on the...
75) Mind Over Matter
Publisher
Chassy Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A young man born with Cerebral Palsy battles a paralyzed left hand, bullies and stereotypes about the disabled to defy the odds and make it as a rock and roll guitarist.
76) Belzec
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Polish
Description
Although it was in full operation for less than one-year, BELZEC was a very efficiently run Concentration Camp were over 600,000 Jews were slaughtered. As the Russian army was drawing closer and closer to the camp, the Nazi dismantled Belzec and eradicated virtually all the evidence that the camp ever existed. This documentary tells the story of Belzec and reminds the world "never forget". Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**.
77) Under the Sun
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Russian director Vitaly Mansky follows the life of one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday). In doing so, Mansky crafts an indelible portrait of life in modern North Korea.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With humor and heart, award-winning filmmaker Michelle Boyaner shares her complex and devastatingly tender journey, as well as those of several other families, into the challenges and joys of adult children caring for their aging parents.
79) Hired Gun
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"First Call, A-List" musicians share their incredible stories of touring, the dedication required to play next to the world’s most iconic musicians, and the origin of rock's most celebrated songs.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
There are almost 300 species of squirrels that can glide through the air, outwit rattlesnakes, and survive the coldest temperatures of any mammal. Uncover their extraordinary abilities as a filmmaker puts their problem solving to the test.
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