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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Il y a une foule de raisons de porter un masque: par sécurité, pour respirer sous leau, pour se déguiser ou même tout simplement parce que ça pue! Les plongeurs, les cowboys, les scientifiques et plein dautres gens ont besoin de masques. Et parfois, couvrir sa bouche, cest faire preuve de bonté et de considération à légard dautrui.Porter un masque, cest montrer que lon se soucie des autres.Arguments (statistiques, angles ou éléments...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave Americans a new way to serve their country: the Peace Corps. In its 60-year history, 200,000+ volunteers have traveled to more than 140 countries to carry out the organization's mission of world peace and friendship a towering task, indeed. Through interviews with Corps volunteers, Heads-of-State, scholars, journalists, and host country nationals, the film explores how this uniquely American government agency...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The film reveals the intertwined lives of international chess heroes: Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani. These four legendary female players from Georgia revolutionized women's chess and became Soviet icons of women's empowerment. The women leave a lasting legacy. They played together on the Soviet Union's Olympic team, but they were also competitive with each other. Now older, they are still important icons...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. This intimate portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times, and the stories hidden on the shelves.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of the attempted takedown of one of America's most iconoclastic colleges, Hampshire College, how a group of determined students succeeded to save it, and by the same token, save their rights to an education that taught them to think critically and to expect a seat at the table. With the help of the students who filmed their 75-day sit-in (the longest in American college history), director Amy Goldstein builds a thriller-like story...
8) Mark Twain
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. The film follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more. A wild ride of clashing personalities,...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three Indigenous youth come of age on the fringes of the Navajo Nation. 1Scenes from the Glittering World2 is a meditation on adolescence, trauma, and the power of connecting with a homeland. Filmed at the most remote high school in the continental United States, at the farthest edge of the Navajo Nation, this film shares the stories of Indigenous youth as they grapple with ambitious dreams, their family responsibilities, and the isolated nature of...
12) Bruno Sammartino
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Bruno Sammartino sold-out Madison Square Garden 189 times! Arnold Schwarzenegger called him 'The Star of all stars.' The escape from the Nazis to the world's strongest man-root for Bruno all-over-again, the greatest champion of all time.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Although the official story has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems have persisted. Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, and Orson Welles are among the many famous figures who doubt that a grain-dealer from Stratford-upon-Avon was England2s 3Star of Poets.4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
At London 2012, Nicola Adams OBE became the first woman ever to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she did it all over again. A Black, gay, working class girl from a council estate fighting in a sport which didn't accept women, how did Nicola overcome the odds stacked against her and make history? Nicola fell in love with boxing as a child, and fought her first bout when women's boxing was still illegal...
16) Forever Majestic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The complicated story of two activists trying to preserve the Majestic Hotel and its legacy. A mysterious fire, corruption, and ten years of abandonment help to fuel this emotionally charged journey.
17) Boarders
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A character focused film following a group of British skateboarders who are vying for a spot to represent their country at the pivotal arena of elite sportsmanship, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where skateboarding will make its debut as competition sport. However, a key talking point within the skateboarding community has been weather the Olympics will dilute the core values of the culture. With archive footage covering 6 decades of British skateboarding,...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the internet legend whose music has become the soundtrack of the digital world. Composer Kevin MacLeod has released thousands of his songs for free and unwittingly became one of the most heard composers in the world, with his work ending up in millions of videos, thousands of films, and more than a few odd places, such as theme parks and rocket launches. By releasing his music royalty free, anyone can use his music in their productions....
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and offstage, from her lifelong emotional...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Uses interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the melodramatic life and stunning architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Discusses some of the 800+ buildings designed by Wright, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Johnson Wax Building, Fallingwater, Unity Temple, and Taliesin. Examines how Wright's buildings and ideas changed the way we live, work, and see the world around us. Documents the turbulence of Wright's personal life, including...
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