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1) Bonhoeffer
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Through historical film footage and dramatic readings of his works, the telling of a German pastor's fight to resist the Third Reich and uphold the teachings of Christianity.
Language
English
Formats
Description
(Nobody's fool) In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
(Fat man & little boy) A dramatization of the development of the atomic bomb by the Manhattan Project, during World War II,...
3) I, Tonya
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. I, Tonya is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (*House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea*) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
7) Marc Chagall
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2011], c1984
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the painter Marc Chagall accompanied by spectacular still images of the artist's greatest work.
8) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Details the biography and career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (*March of the Penguins*) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, this is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action. Nominated for a...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c[2012]
Language
English
Description
Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author. It reveals a difficult, restless, ferociously brilliant man with an appetite for causing trouble both for himself, his family and for the world around him due to his fundamentalist...
16) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A three-part documentary that explores the remarkable and lengthy career of Will Eisner, a pioneering cartoonist whose work continues to impact popular culture. Features interviews with Adao Iturrusgarai, Thomas Inge, Charles Berberian, and others.
19) The Iron Lady
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Dramatized profile of Great Britain's controversial prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
20) J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Profiles English writer, poet, and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, describing the influence the rural English West Midlands where he grew up had on his writing.
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