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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
An ancient Greek faced death head on. You would die in the home, surrounded by family, and afterward women would tend to your body and sing dirges in your honor. Your corpse would be tainted with miasma - pollution - and would be buried outside the city. Meanwhile, your spirit would be carried across the River Styx to Hades, where life among the shades of the dead awaited you.
42) In Our Time
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
The film that kickstarted the New Taiwanese Cinema movement, IN OUR TIME is a rebellious ode to youth in four vignettes of '80s teenage life. The film includes a rare, never-seen-before piece from the late Edward Yang (*A Brighter Summer Day*). Official Selection at the **New York Asian Film Festival.**
44) Simple Passion
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains nudity and sexual content. In this sexually frank portrait of female lust and vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common.
45) Identikit
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
In what remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of her entire career - and perhaps even '70s Italian cinema - Elizabeth Taylor stars as a disturbed woman who arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
47) Expecting
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Andie (Michelle Monaghan) gets pregnant after a one night stand, she offers to give the baby to her best friend (Radha Mitchell), who has been unable to conceive. But can their friendship survive the pregnancy?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Unpack the term "Crusade" and situate it in its cultural context. When Pope Urban said it was the Christians' duty to take up arms against the "infidels," ordinary people were swept up in the idea that they were fighting to save Christianity and their own souls against the advance of Islam.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Explore the earliest printed cookbook, composed in the early 15th century and printed around 1470 (making it one of the first generation of books in print on any subject). Learn to create its blancmanger, a combination of capon breast, white flour, rosewater, sugar, and almond milk that still exists in Turkish cuisine. And discover how to make pasta by feel and texture, no measurements allowed.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In 2015, an unarmed Black man named Freddie Gray died in police custody in Baltimore. The video of his arrest immediately circulated on social media and news networks, and the brutality displayed sparked a protest movement on the streets of Baltimore. Six police officers in connection with Freddie Gray's death were charged, but in the end juries returned no guilty verdicts. With immersive detail and frank talk from community members, activists, academics,...
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In the final film from legendary director Eric Rohmer, a young man, Celadon, goes on a journey to prove his devotion to the woman he loves, Astree. When Astree falsely suspects Celadon of infidelity, the young shepherd goes on a journey to prove his devotion. To do so, he must maintain his fidelity in the face of temptation and danger.
52) Calendar Girl
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A quintessential New York story. For over 70 years, the influential Fashion Calendar with its iconic pink pages laid out every fashion event in New York City, including New York Fashion Week. Behind it was founder Ruth Finley. In 2014, Ruth returned at 95 and sold the Fashion Calendar to the Council of Fashion Designers of America. This documentary examines this momentous transition, and reflects on the life, work, and legacy of this trailblazer and...
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Deep in the heart of Louisiana lies America's largest swamp a million miles of inhospitable bayous, marshes and wetlands where nature rules and humans struggle to tame it. Many of its inhabitants are the hardened descendants of French refugees.
54) Confession
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An up-and-coming district attorney takes on the case of a young woman who has accused three men of sexual assault, putting her career and her life on the line in the process.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Description
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs. (Nominee: Golden Lion, Jacques Rivette - Venice Film Festival, 1984; New York Film Festival, 1984.)
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is a top-ranked, high-achieving elementary school just south of downtown Chicago, with a thriving population of mostly low-income and Black students. But, as the neighborhood grows and gentrifies, a parents’ group eager for a high school in the community seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. As the Chicago Public Schools administrators, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the city's politicians debate the...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Professor Garland takes you deep inside the lives of an ordinary Egyptian family, from marriage, fertility, and the rights of its women, to social gatherings a couple might host or attend. You'll experience the house, its furniture, and even the cosmetics - all the elements of everyday life.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this three-part travelogue, a young Muslim American couple discover America’s Muslim roots on Route 66. From Chicago to St. Louis to Amarillo Texas, and across the Southwest, rap-star Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins enjoy the iconic highway’s well-known roadside attractions, and along the way discover its overlooked Muslim American story.
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