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Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Granny tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the elderly fairy who intends to get her revenge for not being invited to the Royal Christening with the more glamorous and youthful fairies who still have their muscle tone.. Winner of Best Animation at the Irish Film and Television Awards, Official Selection at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Galway Film Festival, and...
2) Iron Man
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed director Steve James (The Interrupters), Academy Award-nominated (Best Documentary Feature, 2018) ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In Academy Award nominated The Barber of Birmingham, 85 year-old barber and life-long civil rights activist James Armstrong looks back on the early days of the civil rights movement and links those struggles with a previously unimaginable dream -- the election of the first African-American president. Armstrong was the proud proprietor of Armstrong's Barbershop, a cultural and political hub in Birmingham, Alabama, for more than 50 years. In his...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This astonishingly powerful, **Oscar-nominated** documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced by *Fahrenheit 9/11* and *Bowling for Columbine* producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall—just blocks away from the French Quarter. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist,...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The removal of Indigenous children from their families has increased at an exponential rate since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. In this riveting documentary, a group of Aboriginal women challenge government policies to bring their grandchildren home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb skyrocketing rates of child removal. Suellyn Tighe thought the NSW Department...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Mori's Bettie Page Reveals All is an intimate look at one of the world's most recognized sex symbols, told in her own words for the first time. In Mori's alluring documentary, the real Bettie Page emerges from the veil of myth and rumor via audio interviews taped a decade prior to her death in 2008. With earthy, razor sharp wit, Bettie tells her life story -- from humble beginnings as one of six children in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John Uhler Jack Lemmon III, was born on February 8, 1925. An only child, he was raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and was that rarity among Hollywood stars, a man with affectionate memories of his parents. Graduating from Harvard, Jack headed for New York City to become a professional actor. A job playing piano to silent movies gave him the chance to study comics like Keaton and Chaplin up close. His first acting was on soap opera and live TV drama....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award winner THE GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB told the horrific story of abuse and torture at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Academy award-nominated film ZERO DARK THIRTY generated controversy for its portrayal of alleged torture of detainees in order to gain information important to the U.S regarding the location of Osama bin Laden. Now comes a new and more shocking part of the story you haven't heard before - the role American doctors had in...
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