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Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives (2006), noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Now, in the second season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor Gates continues that journey, utilizing a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the...
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Language
English
Description
YOU CAN’T ASK THAT is a documentary series that confronts prejudices and break down taboos in our society in an authentic and relatable way. Each episode asks a group of Canadians who live with different disabilities the awkward, inappropriate or uncomfortable questions they hear all the time with honesty.
3) Blue Lights
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Three rookie police officers in Northern Ireland must survive their probation period. The odds are at least one of them isn’t going to last.The team quickly find themselves fighting drug gangs, paramilitaries, undercover operatives, the local community and even their own force in a battle for justice. Working as first responders, they’re brought into direct contact with characters from all walks of life. Most of the people the cops encounter just...
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This series pits 3 former ALONE participants head-to-head to complete incredible bushcraft builds using only basic tools and the natural resources around them. They prove who has the ingenuity, experience and wilderness skills to craft survival builds.
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Generations in the future following Caesar's reign, apes are living harmoniously as the dominant species -- and humans are living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike" --Container.
8) Tripped Up
Publisher
Decal Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring chef Lizzy sets off with her friends to compete in a prestigious food festival. What begins as a calculated career move quickly turns into a hilariously heartwarming misadventure.
9) Going In
Publisher
V71 US Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Toronto, 1989. Five years ago Leslie and Reuben were inseparable best friends - until a toxic party lifestyle tore their friendship apart. Now, when their city is overrun by a deadly new drug epidemic and Reuben's kid brother is kidnapped, that same lifestyle is their only shot at staying alive.
10) Bluebird
Publisher
SeeThink Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the northern reaches of Maine, a local school bus driver becomes distracted during her end-of-day inspection, and fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the tranquility of her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.
12) North of Normal
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything but normal mother.
13) Weirdos
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A plus-size teen girl who is relentlessly bullied by her classmates has to decide whether to succumb to revenge or rise above the hate.
14) Wildcat
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT weaves in and out of American writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?
15) Raining Stones
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed...
16) Little Buddha
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Keanu Reeves (The Matrix), Bridget Fonda (A Simple Plan) and recording artist Chris Isaak (The Silence of the Lambs) star in this motion picture spectacular from legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, The Last Emperor). In Seattle, a boy and his parents (Fonda and Isaak) discover a story about a prince named Siddhartha (Reeves) in a land of miracles. But the miracle becomes real when Tibetan monks appear, searching for their reincarnated...
17) Endgame
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With help from his coach, a boy tries to help his school's chess team reach the Texas state finals.
19) The Middle Man
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
20) Hoarders: S9
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
HOARDERS profiles adults who suffer from extreme hoarding, a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to collect things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.
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