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Documentary & Non-Fiction DVDs Winter 2019
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Aliens Exposed
One out of ten people may have encountered an alien in their midst. They could be a friend, a neighbor, even a relative. A growing number of people believe that aliens have visited Earth and have been here a very long time. Some believe they are here now, watching over the human race
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Animal Babies: First Year on Earth
The first year of life is the toughest. Four cinematographers follow six iconic baby animals as they face the challenges of surviving their first year on Earth. For these animal babies, it is the story of what it takes to survive in the wild.
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Baristas
What does it take to make the perfect cup of coffee? Four passionate National Barista Champions from the United States, Ireland, Germany, and Japan represent their countries and their craft in an attempt to win the World Barista Championship in Seoul, South Korea. The film places particular emphasis on the Japanese Champion, Miki Suzuki, as she attempts to become the first female World Barista Champion in history.
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Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
The chronicle of an unforgettable piece of American history: twelve crazy, painful seesaw years, from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbor. By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with extracts from Hollywood classics, director Philippe Mora offers us an immediate, intricate, and evocative scrapbook of the 1930's.
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Cold Case Hammarskjöld
In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the suspicion of assassination.
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Hail Satan?
When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and challenge corrupt authority, they prove that with little more than a clever idea, a mischievous sense of humor, and a few rebellious friends, they can speak truth to power in some truly profound ways. A timely look at a group of often misunderstood outsiders whose unwavering commitment to social and political justice has empowered thousands of people around the world.
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Life From Above
Cameras in space tell stories of life on the planet from a brand new perspective, revealing its incredible movements, colors, patterns, and just how fast it is changing.
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Magical Land of Oz
The show offers a blue chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty, that delights, and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives are far from predictable.
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The Man Who Saved the World
The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track before it is too late.
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That Way Madness Lies. . .
What happens when a brother descends into a black hole of mental instability, starting with falling for a Nigerian email scam but eventually winding up involuntarily committed into the hospital made famous by 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'? Sandra Luckow unflinchingly turns her camera on her own family as they attempt to navigate the broken mental health system to save their brother.
Quotes: "Filmmaker Sandra Luckow experiences the full extent of what it means to be her brother's keeper in this disturbing portrait of the substantial emotional and physical price exacted when mental illness hits devastatingly close to home." - Los Angeles Times
"If this is a subject matter that has touched your life even minimally, you ought to see this movie." - New York Times
"The ravages of mental illness and the toll it takes on both the sufferer and family members have rarely been presented as vividly as they are in Sandra Luckow's documentary-a powerful true-life tale that will surely strike a chord with viewers." - Hollywood Reporter
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Van Gogh & Japan
Though Vincent van Gogh never visited Japan it is the country that had the most profound influence on him and his art. Through journeying from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, to Van Gogh's adopted home of Provence, France and eventually to Japan itself, this film provides a fascinating look at just how profound this influence proved to be. One cannot understand Van Gogh without understanding how Japanese art arrived in Paris in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Victoria & Albert: The Wedding
Lucy Worsley re-stages the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, including the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring archival materials and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. Lucy also tells the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement as she reveals how this one extraordinary event helped to invent modern marriage.
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When We Were Kings
In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany the Rumble in the Jungle, Muhammad Ali's heavyweight championship fight against George Foreman. This documentary captures the charismatic boxer training for one of the toughest bouts of his career.
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