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Language
English
Formats
Description
Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Combining original recordings of soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War with archival newsreel footage, CENSORED VOICES is a stark reminder of how far the region remains from the peace for which they long. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of Best Documentary at the Awards...
3) Black death
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores the plague of the 14th century, its origins and attempted cures, and looks at the possibility of a modern day plague.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Ocean explorers Howard and Michele Hall turn their love for the ocean and their concern for the future of the world's coral reefs into action. With Jean-Michel Cousteau, deep reef scientist Richard Pyle and Fijian diver Rusi Vulakoro, the Halls explore and capture on film the dazzling underwater world of coral reefs, magical places here on earth."--Container.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c[2008]
Language
English
Description
An encounter with the two pioneers, who opened new frontiers. In spite of their initial rivalry and their very different temperaments, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal. Includes footage, photos, and examples of their work.
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Language
English
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Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian immigrant who committed the greatest little-known art theft in history. For more than 30 years, writer/director Joe Medeiros was obsessed with finding out Peruggia's true motive. So with the help of researchers, art experts and Celestina Peruggia's children Silvio and Graziella, Medeiros and his team embarked on an epic journey leading them to the Louvre, to Peruggia's hiding place in Paris, to Florence....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
17) The Nowhere Inn
Author
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When St. Vincent hires a close friend to direct a documentary about her, they soon find the project having a distorted effect on reality, identity, and authenticity.
Publisher
Georgia Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Born in Atlanta in 1900, Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell was a force to be reckoned with throughout her life. Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel features interviews with leading historians, biographers and people with personal connections to her as well as dramatic re-enactments based on her own personal reflections. The film also looks at the reasons behind the amazing endurance of Gone With the Wind across cultures and over time.
19) Finders keepers
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After an amputated leg is found a grill purchased at an auction, the buyer discovers that the leg belongs to a man who lost it in a plane crash that changed his life.
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