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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In part 2, our “heroes” speak about finding help and inpatient and/or outpatient treatment. It also explores the criminalization of mental illness, tragedy of youth suicide, and “double stigma” that occurs when mental illness is combined with racial or gender discrimination. Throughout, the interviewees demonstrate the power of resiliency and hope.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Celebrity is not a modern phenomenon. Politicians, criminals, actors, and even ordinary citizens in ancient Rome strove for recognition. Here you'll chart the lives of some of Rome's celebrities, including gladiators, charioteers, and the emperor Nero. You'll also look at women who knew how to hog the limelight, including Cleopatra and Theodora.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Traces the fascinating history of the human/dog relationship. Dogs were the first animal ever domesticated and this long-shared alliance has intertwined their biology with ours. This episode explores the evolution of dogs’ most powerful ‘weapon’ against us - puppy-dog-eyes, as well as studies that prove dogs can read our facial expressions and their uncanny ability to understand our emotions. Scientists reveal dogs are so uniquely skilled at...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Several of the interviews in this documentary were filmed at a symposium about the career and biography of Michael Chekhov, which was held in the US in the 1990s. The participants in the symposium shared their memories about being taught by, or working with, the late, great actor, director, and drama coach, Russian-born Chekhov (1891-1955), who was the nephew of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Many film clips, plus some rare stills of...
45) As of Yet
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After four lonely months stuck in her Brooklyn apartment, twentysomething Naomi is ready to take a risk and meet up with her e-love interest, Reed. But when her best friend and temporarily-in-Florida roommate Sara throws a wrench in those plans, Naomi must navigate her own boundaries around romance, friendship, and personal growth that have been weighing on her for far longer than the stay-at-home order.
46) Dear Frankie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
This touching and humorous movie has earned the raves of critics and won the hearts of audiences everywhere! To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) secretly authors letters from his "father." Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie gets more than anyone bargained for when she hires a handsome stranger (Gerard Butler) to play the role of a lifetime!
47) Flyabout
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A young woman follows her dream to fly a plane around the continent of Australia, together with her dad. Her introduction to the Aboriginal Walkabout brings on the realization that piloting the plane won't be the hardest part of the trip.
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.
49) Zerograd
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarov’s surreal 1988 satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. The more complex and absurdist the mystery becomes, the more poignant and plaintive Varakin’s predicament – “I have to get back to Moscow,” he pleads to no avail. Along...
51) Noel
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
It's Christmas Eve in New York City, and with a little help from each other, five people will discover new meaning on Christmas Day.
52) Everybody Dance
Publisher
Kandoo Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This extremely touching film reveals the everyday challenges of kids with different disabilities, and how ballet has changed their lives. The film explores the lives of five kids, and their incredible dance teacher, as they prepare for an emotional end of year dance recital.
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.
54) The Infiltrator
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
55) The 5th Man
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
For 50 years, Paul Limmer was a world-class track coach at Long Island's Mepham High School. He holds NY State's record for wins with 737 and was inducted into the 2016 New Balance Coaches Hall of Fame. Limmer's true legacy, however, has nothing to do with awards. Thousands of former athletes, many of whom never broke a single record or won a solitary trophy, credit him for changing their lives. The 5th Man is the story of all the other kids - the...
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
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
After nearly two decades caught under the wing of an aging husband (Alan Arkin), devoted mother and housewife Pippa Lee (Robin Wright) undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens (as portrayed by Blake Lively), Pippa sparks a relationship with a kindred soul (Keanu Reeves). Robin Wright delivers a stunning and revelatory performance in Pippa Lee; a wry, moving, and complex portrait of the many lives behind...
60) 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.
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