Summary: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Malak, Jonah
Summary: Follows Don Shirley and David Shaw, two high level scuba-divers, as they prepare for and execute a fateful dive in Boesmansgat cave in South Africa to retrieve the body of another diver.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
Summary: Takes you from the terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Mexico (where waves are created by massive oil supertankers) to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Told trough the voices of legends, pros, and everyday surfers alike, it is not a film just for surfers, but for anyone with an appreciation for sport and an inkling of what it means to be "stoked."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
Summary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Goodman, Paul
Summary: Showcases the intellect of author Paul Goodman and rediscovers his ideas of the 1960's through archival multimedia, photographs, interviews, and readings of his poetry and journals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2012
Summary: "First feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality ... The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, [filmmaker] Parvez [Sharma] makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
Ozias, Michael
Summary: Tracks four companies working on solving some of humanity's most important problems and examines the outdated regulatory systems impeding their progress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2021
Summary: Kenny Scharf arrived in New York City during the early 80s and quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, forming a trio that would take the creative yet depressed downtown art scene by storm. Unlike his friends who died tragically young, Scharf lived to face setbacks while remaining true to his high-tone Technicolor artistic vision which has cemented his place as a pop art icon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Summary: An unflinching look at how women are treated in the United States today. Examining both real-life stories and precedent-setting legal cases, director Kamala Lopez uncovers how outdated and discriminatory attitudes inform and influence seemingly disparate issues, from workplace harassment to domestic violence, rape and sexual assault to the foster care system, and the healthcare conglomerate to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Artist Not Provided
Summary: Follows a motorcycle club known as the Sinners as they help a member build a bike from the ground up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2020