Summary: Fish School is in session! Get ready for awesome seahorse facts in this fun new animated documentary movie, it₂s Fish School: Cute Little Sea Horses!

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: 2013 release from the Soul legend, a concert filmed in November at New York's Brooklyn Bowl that features Aaron Neville performing songs from his album My True Story. An incredible array of musicians and guests join Neville, including: Greg Leisz on guitar (Beck, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams), George G. Receli on drums (Bob Dylan, James Brown), Tony Scherr on bass (Bill Frisell, Norah...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2013

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Summary: Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast. By the 1970s, these former New Yorkers had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents. The film takes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek through a personal, intimate look at the life and career of Leonard Nimoy and the enduring appeal of his alter ego, Mr. Spock, as told by his son, Adam Nimoy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: When Calgarian Robert Cohen moved to L.A. to pursue his dreams of becoming a comedy writer, he quickly realized that his new friends and colleagues knew nothing but the usual stereotypes about his beloved homeland. After years of frustration, Robert decided to embark on a personal quest, traveling from one end of Canada to the other, to prove Being Canadian is more than just maple syrup and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: Less than a year after WWII began, Churchill formed a secret organization called the SOE, Special Operations Executive, and ordered it to 'set Europe ablaze'. Secret War is a thrilling series that goes inside Churchill's secret army to a dangerous world of agents, double agents, and tripple agents who helped liberate Europe and change the course of the war. 13 episodes, 11 hrs, 4 DVDs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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Summary: A documentary film about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to make a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, starring Jodorowsky's own 12-year-old son, as well as Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali with music by Pink Floyd; film includes interviews with Jodorowsky and others.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: A gifted athlete from Fall River, Massachusetts, Chris Herren was a basketball legend before he left high school. After a troubled yet outstanding career at Fresno State, he would eventually fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics, only to lose it all to a devastating addiction that nearly killed him. Award-winning director Jonathan Hock chronicles this powerful story of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Summary: The story of the surviving members of the Viennese Hakoah sports club women's swim team, a world-dominating competitor in the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down during Hitler's reign, though all the women managed to escape capture. Combines historical footage and contemporary interviews to reconnect the women's lives and memories.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005

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Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005

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Summary: Documentary of the two-year effort by Mark Borchardt to finish his "no-budget horror film, Cover."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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Summary: Jackson Pollock said, 'He makes the rest of us look academic,' Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a 'myth-maker' and Clement Greenberg called him 'a highly influential maverick and an independent genius.' Clyfford Still, one of the strongest, most original contributors to abstract expressionism, walked away from the commercial art world at the height of his career. Extremely disciplined,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Summary: In 2004, Izzat Majeed founded Sachal Studios to create a space for traditional music in a nation that had rejected its musical roots. After convincing a number of master musicians to pick up their instruments again, they quietly released some classical and folk albums, but it was an experimental album fusing jazz and South Asian instruments that brought Sachal Studios worldwide acclaim. Their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter, with Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends and scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever. --Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: Princess Shaw placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. This is the extraordinary true story of an aspiring musician down on her luck, who inspired internationally famous YouTube artist Kutiman to create a magical collaboration that would bring her music to a whole new audience.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: "Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit"--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2003

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Summary: Known as the "Father of Claymation," Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and Domino's The Noid. But after thirty years of being the unheralded king of clay, Vinton's carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismatic pioneer and his close...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007

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Summary: Aaron Swartz was a programming prodigy who helped shape the digital landscape of today. He helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit. Chronicling his pioneering efforts crusading for open access and free speech and the resulting legal nightmare and tragedy that ensued, the documentary is a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant tech millionaire who renounced...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the world's only penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...

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Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015

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Summary: When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? Follow former enemy combatants, Israeli soldiers from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison, who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say enough. The film reveals their transformational journeys from soldiers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: A documentary tracing the brilliant career of Aryton Senna, the famous Brazilian Formula One driver until his tragic death at the age of 34.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Comstar Home Entertainment, Pte Ltd. 2010

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