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4) Hive
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
5) Reds
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The story of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist who was buried in the Kremlin, Louise Bryant, writer and feminist, and Eugene O'Neill, America's playwright, during the Russian Revolution.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs
Series
A scattering of seeds volume 14
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
David Adkin's 'First Lady of the Yukon' is the gripping tale of Martha Black, a young society wife who left a life of privilege in Chicago for the adventure of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Photographed in the raw beauty of the Yukon, this is a dramatic story of an American woman's determination to claim her own independence. Martha Black built a new life for herself in the perilous frontier of the Gold Rush. She raised a family, succeeded in business,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Stories of work and play, of love and loss ... and bread. Bread has been at the center of human life and creativity for at least the last ten thousand years - it is in our bones and a witness to history. This essay documentary brings bread to the front of the line and explores its relation to politics, poetry, and pleasure. The loaf of bread is the vehicle through which we explore stories of sex and death, immigration and refugees, social justice...
9) Emily
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel.
11) Apocalypse '45
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Recounts the end of World War II. With never-before-seen restored footage and the voices of 24 men who lived through these events, this timely documentary highlights the experiences of the last of the Greatest Generation.
12) Balloon
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the summer of 1979, two East German families attempt the impossible. In a makeshift hot-air balloon, they risk their lives and fly towards West Germany with hopes of freedom and a better life. Unfortunately, the balloon crash-lands just before they reach the West German border and the Stasi soon discover evidence of the attempted escape. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families must now rush to build a new escape balloon before...
14) Jesus revolution
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young people descend on sunny Southern California to redefine...
15) She said
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
16) Minamata
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life" Magazine editor Ralph Graves, Smith is finally convinced...
17) Festival express
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In 1970 during the era of the hippie and the counter-culture, the biggest rock acts traveled on a train for five days from coast to coast in Canada, performing a series of concerts at each stop.
19) Ida
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
20) Henry V
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs and forever change the face of Europe.
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