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Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court....
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community facing the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The construction of Mount Rushmore was looked upon unfavorably by Native Americans who were promised the Black Hills in a treaty later broken by the United States. In order to honor the legacy of the Native Americans who lived in western South Dakota, an even larger monument of Crazy Horse is currently under construction..
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The author of the Declaration of Independence, a strong voice for the defense of liberty, and the architect behind the largest territorial expansion in United States history, this episode examines Thomas Jefferson's rightful place on Mount Rushmore..
Publisher
Talking Eyes Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A highly charged journey across the landscape of aging. This film travels from coast to coast exploring the unprecedented highs and the prolonged lows of growing old. From burlesque dancers in their seventies to geriatric prison wards, this film takes us to the extreme ends of longevity while asking 'What is a good old age?' This film and its companion book were created by the internationally-acclaimed team of writer Julie Winokur and photographer...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Murder of Couriers documents the lives of a group of bike messengers over a nearly three-year span. This film was made by couriers, about couriers, for a wide general audience and offers the chance to experience a lifestyle that not many get the privilege to enjoy...With the emerging popularity of urban fashion, green living and alternative lifestyles, people all over the world have begun to take to the streets on two wheels. At the heart of this...
12) Abraham Lincoln
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A champion of the American Union in its darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln's unbreakable faith in the United States and his role in ending slavery earn him a place on Mount Rushmore..
13) The Untouchables
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street's leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Arguing the World is the story of four brilliant and engaging men caught up in the central struggles of our time. This enthralling film creates a vivid picture of intellectual life in the 20th century. For more than half a century, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol have all passionately believed that ideas can change the world-especially their ideas. And they have been fighting over those ideas ever since they entered New...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away." - Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore. Towering above the Black Hills of South Dakota stands America's most treasured monument...a crowning testament to the great leaders who symbolize...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Step back in time with America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Over six innovative decades marked by economic, political, social, and technological upheavals, the U.S. went from an agrarian, isolationist country to the greatest industrial power and a nascent geopolitical superpower. Meet inventors, conservationists, robber barons, civil rights activists, and industrialists, who together forged a new nation..
17) Cool Spaces
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This series profiles the most provocative and innovative public space architecture in North America. Each hour-long episode is organized around a central theme--Performance Spaces, Libraries, Art Spaces, and Healing Spaces--and profiles three buildings. For each building, we see why it was designed, how it was designed, and discover just what makes the building so cool. Guided by architect and teacher Stephen Chung, we set off to explore these questions...
19) MA
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary's pilgrimage, a woman crosses the scorched landscape of the American Southwest, to give birth to our savior in Las Vegas. Reinvented and told entirely through movement, the film deconstructs the role of this woman, who encounters a world full of bold, archetypal characters that are alternately terrifying and sublime.. MA is a journey into the visceral and the surreal, interweaving ritual, performance, and the...
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