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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"IN FULL BLOOM: TRANSCENDING GENDER" follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue, dialogue and performance art while preparing for the world premiere of the original stage play, Lovely Bouquet of Flowers: An Exploration of Non-Traditional Gender Voices, written by Jazzmun Nichcala Crayton and David Hays Gaddas. Behind-the-scenes, rehearsal and performance footage...
82) Beauty
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In a world of fixed positions and prescribed roles, expanding the definition of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. Christina Willings’ documentary BEAUTY explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human. Claiming your own sense of gender when everything around you insists that you comply and conform can be challenging, and sometimes...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter and life long educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. A film about perception and growing older, two artists who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions.
84) Fiddlin’
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sister filmmakers, Julie Simone and Vicki Vlasic return to their Appalachian roots to film at the world's oldest Fiddler's Convention. With multiple generations jamming together, Fiddlin' is a love-letter to American roots and the uplifting power of music. Audience Favorite at the **Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival**. *"[A]n undeniably heartfelt if overlong affair, especially for the uninitiated." - Michael Rechtshaffen, **Los Angeles Times***...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives of the Royal British Princes, with insightful interviews from Royal biographers. Get an inside view of how each generation of princes are groomed for duty in our everchanging world.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Pakistan, ‘Land of the Pure’, remains a country of contradictions. A bastion of radical Islam trying to change to a modern state. We examine some of the undercurrents threatening the stability of this Atomic nation. Up in the Himalayas, at an altitude of 6,000 meters, a bizarre sort of war is being waged. 1,000 Pakistani soldiers face off against 3,000 Indian soldiers for control of the Siachen Glacier, biggest reserve of fresh water available....
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Hunters have been disappearing from North American wildlands for hundreds of years, many without leaving a trace. Former police detective David Paulides was initially brought on to investigate the circumstances around the many mysterious disappearances - here he presents the haunting true stories of hunters experiencing the unexplainable. MISSING 411: THE HUNTED is based on the book by Paulides, which documents 185 cases of missing peoples from four...
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."
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With searing urgency, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ purge raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
90) 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...
91) 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.
92) The clowns
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
93) Boatman
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
BOATMAN is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Superheroes: a never ending battle is the first documentary to examine the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last 75 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. In this episode: This episode captures the enthusiasm for superheroes as they are embraced in all forms of media and by all demographics, beginning with the historic “Superman” movie...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Discover the ingenious engineering of Beijing's Forbidden City, the power center of imperial China for nearly 500 years. Discover how the design of this vast complex of palaces and temples enabled it to survive centuries of earthquake shocks.
96) Mind Over Matter
Publisher
Chassy Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A young man born with Cerebral Palsy battles a paralyzed left hand, bullies and stereotypes about the disabled to defy the odds and make it as a rock and roll guitarist.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college,...
Publisher
Kandoo Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In AMERICAN STREET KID, filmmaker Michael Leoni takes you on a journey into a world that most people don't know exists. A world where in order to survive, kids are forced to sell drugs, beg for money or sell their bodies. Their powerful stories are heartbreaking and their unrelenting hope and determination to create a better life shines through, in this true tale of love, friendship, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (24 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Palestinian American musician Simon Shaheen's mastery of the Arabic oud and violin has brought him international acclaim. This film, the first in Documentary Arts' Connecting Cultures series, follows Shaheen in his daily life in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn where he lives, and documents his performances at Symphony Space in New York City and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Shaheen demonstrates his melodic ingenuity...
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