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Documentary & Non-Fiction DVDs Fall 2019
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At the Drive-In
Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free. The film is an award-winning underdog story about The Mahoning Drive-in Theater.
Director: Alexander Monelli
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Vladivostok : Russia's New Eldorado
An excellent French documentary from 2018, directed by Jerome Dion. Compared to San Francisco, this military base city, with it's strategic location on the edge of Pacific ocean, is booming in recent years. There is wealth and development all around, but not for everyone.
Director: Jerome Dion
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Sea Tomorrow
The end. Or rather, long after the end of the world as they know it, when global warming is more than a topic of conversation, when financial crises are no longer about numbers, when ideas of right and wrong are only as relevant as they are practical. This is when this documentary was filmed. Set on the arid seabed of the former Aral Sea, the film takes viewers on a journey into the world after the apocalypse, a world where nothing prevails but emptiness and silence.
Director: Katerina Suvorova
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Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb
An exploration of Lise Meitner and her role in creating the atomic bomb during the 1930s while also making a name for herself as a pioneer of feminism.
Director: Wolf Truchsess von Wetzhausen
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Intelligent Lives
From award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib comes the documentary, a catalyst to transform the label of intellectual disability from a life sentence of isolation into a life of possibility for the most systematically segregated people in America. It stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities, Micah, Naieer, and Naomie, who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce.
Director: Dan Habib
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Cielo
A cinematic reverie on the beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places on the planet to contemplate its splendor. The film drifts between science and spirituality, the arid land, desert shores, and lush galaxies, expanding the imagination. From astrophysicists to the desert dwellers, all share their evocative visions of the stars and planets, their mythic stories and existential queries with remarkable openness and a contagious sense of wonder.
Director: Alison, McAlpine
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Target: St. Louis
After Hiroshima, the United States Army, eager for new ways to weaponize atomic power, engaged in a series of classified open-air studies designed to test the effects of aerosol radiation in a metropolitian setting. At first the tests were described as defensive, the latest strategy against the threat of Russian bombers. But as later declassified documents suggest, the goal of the testing (performed primarily in low-income and African-American neighborhoods of North St. Louis), was to develop offensive capabilities which could match the climate and terrain of downtown Moscow. Consequently, generations of St. Louis inhabitants were unwitting participants in a government testing program which, like the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Project, was facilitated by the U.S. Department of Public Health. Target: St. Louis investigates the historical catalyst for these events, the survivors' quest for answers and the subsequent Federal legislation requiring informed consent by human subjects.
Director: Sean Slater
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The World Before Your Feet
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City, and for the past six years, Matt Green has been walking them all, every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's history and people along the way.
Director: Jeremy Workman
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Screwball
Recounting the high-profile doping scandal that rocked Major League Baseball, director Billy Corben takes viewers into the surreal Miami underworld that provided performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, and other star players. The documentary plays like a madcap Floridian crime comedy in the vein of Elmore Leonard or the Coen Brothers while it raises serious questions about the ethics of professional sports.
Director: Billy Corben
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Hillbilly
Filmed in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, the movie uncovers an unexpected set of artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, 'Affrilachian' poets, and intersectional feminists, all unexpected voices emerging form this historically misunderstood region.
Director: Sally Rubin
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Bauhaus Spirit
Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopia was born in Germany. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. Bauhaus constituted one of the most significant contributions to everyday 20th-century culture and influential contemporary designs, and it was never just an artistic experiment. Confronted with the social conditions of that particular time, as well as the experience of World War I, the movement concerned itself with the political and social connotations of design from the very outset. Hence, Bauhaus's history is not just the history of art, but also the history of an era that stretches from the early 20th century to the modern day. [The film] describes the fascinating story of Bauhaus as a statement, but also the failure and renewal of a social utopia. It tells of artists, scientists and architects today, who, in their examinations of current challenges also relate to Bauhaus. This story unfolds while asking questions still relevant today: How do we want to live, where do we want to go?
Director: Felix Krämer
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