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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
Author
Language
English
Description
""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--whichgroups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Eight top researchers (Mark Bevir, Frans de Waal, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Andy Hoffman, David Hollinger, Martin Jay, Josiah Ober, Philip Zimbardo) explore the question of how to constructively involve the public in pressing societal issues.
7) Why Knot
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed over the course of 4½ years, WHY KNOT weaves the history of monogamy with the personal story of one filmmaker’s experience with an open relationship. When his younger brother decides to get married, Dhruv’s Indian family pressures him to follow suit. As preparations for the wedding ensue, Dhruv turns the camera on his family and ex-lovers in intimate dialogues which reveal the fabric of monogamy, the truth of infidelity and the reality...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After mourning the loss of his wife of fifty years, Bill Cane, a 95-year-old singer/songwriter and music teacher, put an ad in the personals and went ballroom dancing in search of a new companion. He soon embraced a revitalized life full of romance, sex and music.
Publisher
Hope Runs High
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Lee Grant's exploration of Reagan-era America takes us from the heartland, where farms that have fed the U.S. for a century are being dismembered by local banks, through the tent-cities of Los Angeles and welfare hotels of New York. A groundbreaking and unforgettable look at life inside an America we have been too quick to forget. “In ‘DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA,’ the current state of American...
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a search for their identity, a group of adolescents discover they all share the same sperm donor. Filmed over 8 years, the children bond as the mystery of their biological father deepens. Future People explores the intricacies of nature vs nurture and our shared innate drive to know oneself through lineage.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Georg is a famous Austrian composer, his wife Mollena a renowned American kink educator. Together they live in a public kinky relationship. This film documents their lives between perversion, art, love and radical self-determination.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Program highlights: Hierarchies are inevitable, so learn the rules of the game. Qualities that create power and why intelligence is not one of them. How we limit ourselves when it comes to acquiring power. Getting a job, having control over your work, and holding on to a job all require more than simply excelling at what you do. They require an understanding of power. According to Professor Pfeffer, individual power comes from political skill, which...
18) Where Are We?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman set out on the open road through unfamiliar lands - in their own country. Having spent most of their lives on America's coasts, they piled into a van and interviewed ordinary people they met along the way. At a time when the country was sharply divided over the Iraq War and LGBTQ+ issues, WHERE ARE WE? remains a timely document about trying to find common ground and a moving, funny, and important...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's Union Time, people!" — the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since its opening in 1993, employees of the plant have endured various abuses such as intimidation tactics, low pay, and dangerous working conditions which resulted in bodily injury and, on one occasion, death. Often treated as expendable, the workers came together and engaged in a 16-year-long struggle for the right...
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