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43) High Wire
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Examines the reasons that Canada declined to take part in the 2003 US-led military mission in Iraq, shining a spotlight on the diplomatic tug of war that took place behind the scenes with our neighbours to the south, who have often adopted an interventionist foreign policy to serve their own economic and geopolitical interests. Canada’s historic refusal could have had disastrous consequences, but a number of key players and other analysts remind...
44) Sewing Woman
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
Chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman’s determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America. Produced in 1982 and Oscar®-nominated for Best Short Documentary, this classic film continues to screen widely and is now treasured by a new generation of film goers.SEWING WOMAN is based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, Zem Ping Dong, an immigrant...
45) Limos
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Limousines have been stretched to greater and greater lengths--as has the notion of what can be done inside them! You can have a rolling disco in a stretched SUV, go for a rumble off-road in a monster truck limousine.
46) All These Sons
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
On Chicago's South and West sides, gun violence is destroying countless lives. Two men dedicate their lives educating, empowering, and healing young Black men at high risk for being victims-or perpetrators-of shootings.
49) Muscle Cars
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Pop open the hood, check out the carbs, and hear the engines roar as we journey back to a time when gas was cheap, emission controls non-existent, and all that mattered was acceleration and speed.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An award-winning film about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown – the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history – and its aftermath. Featuring Jane Fonda, the film uncovers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers who take their local community's case against the plant operator all the way to the Supreme Court – and a young female journalist who's caught in the radioactive crossfire.
51) Convertibles
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Topless, unobstructed--the convertible completely transforms the driving experience and unlike any other car, sets the driver free.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter that persistently washes up on the island's shores. Shot on 16mm and created using eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
During a period of record low rainfall in northern Kenya, the Turkana tribe faces growing violent clashes with rival tribes and encroaching wild predators hunting their livestock. Kolei, a sensitive shepherd boy whose name translates to “living amongst the goats”, questions not only his path as a warrior, but also the erosion of the culture that has shaped every aspect of his life.
54) Concept Cars
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
They were pure fantasy on wheels, machines designed to make the heart race and the mind ask…what if?
55) Las Abogadas
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war.From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to persuading border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana,...
58) Been There
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Weekend trips, city breaks, a detour into nature or once around the world. Barely a few days off, you're already gone. Never before has the desire to travel been so widespread and visited places so overloaded. What do we get out of it, other than the picture proof that we have been there?
59) Oyate
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to embark upon the process of decolonization.
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