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41) Magnus
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This unique coming-of-age story follows Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The inspiring journey of 26-year-old, 58-pound Lizzie from cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**.
43) The Bowery
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (11 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A short ten-minute movie about the Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan. A street known for its derelict past.
44) (A)Sexual
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
(A)SEXUAL follows the growth of a community that experiences no sexual attraction. In 2000, David Jay came out to his parents. He was asexual and was fine with it. And he was not alone. Studies show that 1% of the population is asexual. But in a society obsessed with sex, how do you deal with life as an outsider? Combining intimate interviews, verite footage, and animation with fearless humor and pop culture imagery, David and our four other characters...
45) Comedy Warriors
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Take 4 top comedians (The Coaches), and 5 wounded veterans (Stephen Rice, Darisse Smith, Rob Jones, Bobby Henline, Joe Kashw) and the result the healing power of humor.
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed director Julie Sokolow (Woman on Fire, Aspie Seeks Love) and producer Danny Yourd (Blood Brother, Almost Holy), comes an awe-inspiring, riveting film which follows a writer with a fierce passion and love for nature as he embarks on a daring and harrowing journey to walk across the United States completely barefoot. With wit, energy, and a fierce independence, this film takes on an odyssey to a universal place that touches at our deepest...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a loving home, brothers Peter and Matthew are crazy about each other, but also constantly at each other’s throats. Displaying their individual idiosyncrasies—Peter is obsessed with the TV show Survivor, while younger brother Matthew struggles to overcome his intense fear of dogs—the brothers spend one formative summer in their suburban Maryland neighborhood. Ben Mullinkosson’s revealing and endearing film DON’T BE A DICK ABOUT...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Tech giants and car manufacturers alike are developing self-driving cars—and some of them are already on public roads. But what must computers be capable of to truly take the wheel? And could they eventually be safer than human drivers?
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking cult documentary from 1985, director Kirby Dick (*This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Derrida*) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the (then) recently established discipline of sexual therapy. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped, and what emerges is a disarming and compassionate look at the struggles people face in connecting with one...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Swamp explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America’s greatest wetland.
51) Mountain Men
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (343 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Mountain Men follows men who have devoted their lives to surviving off the grid in some of the country's most unforgiving terrain.
52) Uberland
Language
English
Description
Pulling back the curtain on the labor issues surrounding Uber and the gig economy, UBER LAND tells the story of a scandal-ridden company that upended transportation, defied regulators, decimated the taxi industry, and ended up cannibalizing its own drivers. From the ashes of the Great Recession came the gig economy, which promised independence and flexibility for workers. Now, more than ten years later, the veneer of the gig economy has faded as the...
53) Dieste (Uruguay)
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Born in 1917 in Uruguay, Eladio Dieste created industrial and agrarian works, public infrastructure and commercial buildings whose unique and innovative design, a melding of architecture and engineering, elevated these often humble buildings to masterworks of art. Directed by Heinz Emigholz, this audacious documentary presents twenty-nine of Dieste's buildings. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
54) Residente
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Discover how Rene Perez, AKA RESIDENTE, evolved from struggling art student into the founder of Latin America’s most influential rap group, Calle 13, and became one of Latin America’s most outspoken critics of injustice and corruption. Inspired after mapping out his DNA, RESIDENTE left the group the peak of its success to embark on a new project through Siberia, the Caucasus, China and West Africa in order to trace the footsteps of his ancestors....
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Musician Lil Peep was on the verge of mainstream success when he died of a drug overdose at 21 years old. Dubbed the future of emo by Pitchfork, Peep managed to touch countless lives across the world in just a short two years with an innovative mix of punk, emo and trap music. Executive produced by Terrence Malick, Everybody’s Everything explores the meteoric rise of Lil Peep, from recording songs in his bedroom to a worldwide tour, and the unbelievable...
56) Robin's Wish
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
ROBIN'S WISH is the final word in the story of what really happened to Robin Williams at the end of his life, it reveals the beauty and power behind the mind of one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
57) Play Money
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The untold story of how a group of entrepreneurs stumbled upon a way to make millions buying and selling virtual gold in the online game World of Warcraft.
58) Muse of Fire
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to discover everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Consulting a host of helpful luminaries along the way, including Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their exciting road trip takes them to Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood with Baz Luhrman, a prison in Berlin and Shakespeare’s home in...
59) K2 Selling Death
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (6 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This heart-wrenching short film about the effects of K2 addiction puts the viewer right on the streets of Dallas, Texas, where the drug is taking lives every day. K2 is a synthetic cannabinoid up to 100 times as potent as marijuana, the drug causes hallucinations, violent behavior, and leaves some comatose.
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN paints the most intimate of portraits of a New England town as its citizens deploy the power of art to push beyond one of the greatest tragedies in American history. In the aftermath of 2012's Sandy Hook school shooting, Kramer learned that a group of artists from New York were traveling to Newtown to work with kids from the local school system to mount an adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
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