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1) The Wall
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Martina Gedeck, star of the Academy Award-winning film The Lives Of Others, brings a vivid intensity to this mysterious and riveting tale of survival set in a spectacularly beautiful Austrian mountain landscape. In a tour-de-force performance, Gedeck stars as an unnamed character who suddenly finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall inexplicably surrounds the countryside where she is vacationing. Accompanied...
2) The Wall
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of short documentaries on the current undocumented immigration crisis touching topics such as The Wall, the effects of family separation at the border, deportation, and DACA. LANDFALL: As the U.S. currently reels over the consequences of separating parents and their children at the border, this film explores the lingering effects of this trauma on the relationship between a mother and her son who migrated from Colombia. WHAT WOULD YOU...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The name Wall Street evolved from the earliest history of North America. Back then, a wall stood as a protective boundary between the wealth of the Dutch Settlement of New Amsterdam and the Native Americans. It's a difficult challenge to find traces of that original wall from a time 400 years ago, especially in such a modern city as New York. But the wall of Wall Street perfectly parallels the history of New York City from its earliest beginnings...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A poetic and enigmatic documentary by painter and filmmaker Jurgen Bottcher, who relies on sight and sound to contemplate the Berlin Wall's historic and symbolic significance. Part of the seriesWENDE FLICKS: Last Films from East Germany. This unconventional documentary highlights the Berlin Wall, its last days and its highly anticipated destruction. Both seemingly banal and historical moments are captured and presented without verbal commentary....
Publisher
Vooks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
There's a wall in the middle of this book—and that's a good thing. The wall keeps the friendly knight safe from the other side.Until something happens—something that's, well, not supposed to happen. There's a danger on the knight's side of the wall. What can I do? Is the knight doomed? Or will he learn a valuable lesson about stepping over the walls we've built between us?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Inspired by the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 2009, "Behind the Wall" tells the stories of ordinary people living on both sides of the Wall and what life was like for them before, during and after the Wall fell. All politics being local, who else but the people who experienced it could tell us what it was really like living there? Behind the Wall will explode some myths and give a special, intimate, personal view...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Rockin’ the Wall is both an engaging history lesson about the Berlin Wall and life behind the Iron Curtain, and an entertaining exploration of the power of rock music as a force for social change and liberation. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1960, it became the worldwide symbol of communist oppression. While the Wall kept people in, it could not keep Western influences like rock music out.. Through Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, rock...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Building on the success of their award-winning documentary The Dhamma Brothers, filmmakers Bestor Cram, Jenny Phillips and Andrew Kukura have teamed up once again to highlight one of the most critical issues in the national debate over criminal justice reform: the flood of prisoners returning to our communities without the guidance and support needed for a successful transition back to society. Too often, prison reentry becomes a setup for failure...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Screen legend Jeanne Moreau stars in this twisty, mood-drenched film noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard. When wealthy industrialist Jacques Decrey discovers that his wife (Moreau) is having an affair with a young actor, he decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
The relationship between Ale and Rocío faces a big change when their mother is unjustly imprisoned, and they naturally become parents of their little brothers. First, all in good disposition and humor until their situation as illegal immigrants in Mexico is confronted with unexpected emotions and gender roles, discrimination, immigration systems, and inability to enjoy their youth let alone access to education. Eventually, the communication between...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Platinum Award -Worldfest Houston The Gabriel Award -NCAC Best Documentary -Athens Film Festival Best of Fest -Sarasota Film Festival Outstanding Story about South Asia -SAJA "Recommended. This program takes viewers to the streets of New Delhi, India, where Indian researcher Sugata Mitra places a high-speed computer in a wall near an Indian slum that ends with intriguing results: within hours, and without instruction, children begin browsing the Internet,...
Publisher
Hybrid Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The 18th century War of Spanish Succession results in the suspension of autonomy in Barcelona and the region. Their language, Catalan, is outlawed, and a military outpost is erected to keep the locals in line. Episode 1 focuses mainly on the 19th century industrial expansion of Barcelona, the plight of the city’s workers, and the rise of Spain’s first Bourgeoisie class.
Author
Series
Welcome to Sweden volume 7
Language
English
Description
Bruce is asked to coach a Swedish youth basketball team; the stress of Emma's job causes her to "hit the wall"; Birger is forced to debate another tenant over his beloved workroom.
Author
Series
Princess Principal volume 12
Language
日本語
Description
With time against her, Ange will stop at nothing until she has the princess next to her. Will she be too late to save her?
Author
Series
61st Street volume 5
Language
English
Description
Moses reunites with an old acquaintance and Officer Logan gets a new position.
Publisher
Monster Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One cold wintery day, Luna notices something strange is happening in her house. Something is causing all the bathroom mirrors and windows to fog up. But what’s stranger still, after Jupiter’s soapy artwork filled bath, his drawings on the window are the only place that no longer fog up! What’s happening here? What makes the mirror fog up and what’s so special about Jupiter’s soapy drawings?
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Buena Vista Social Club meets Years of Living Dangerously, renowned Malian singer Inna Modja takes us on a music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perseverance across Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall. Part musical odyssey and cultural road-trip, part desertification and climate justice exploration, Inna sets out on a mission to assemble Africa’s most thrilling musicians and record a once-in-a-lifetime album that captures the spirit of...
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