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Documentary & Non-Fiction DVDs Fall 2018
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Black Code
In this gripping documentary, filmmaker Nicholas de Pencier examines the complex global impact that the Internet has hand on matters of free speech, privacy, and activism. Based on the book by Ron Deiber, it is the story of how the Internet is being controlled and manipulated by governments across the world in order to censor and monitor their citizens, As they battle for control of cyberspace, ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy are challenged to the core.
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Line 41
A revealing documentary that explores the history and psychology behind the complex triangle of perpetrators, bystanders, and victims in Holocaust-era Poland.
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Troll Inc.
The avant-garde has moved online, and they have an agenda. Coming from within computer programming culture, Internet trolls are pissed off and using the click-bait obsessed mass media to propel their movement into the mainstream. Influencing presidential elections, manipulating journalists, inventing meme culture, trolls are either our saviors or driving our culture off a cliff. Prosecuted as a whistle-blower by the Federal Government, it follows the world's most famous Internet troll.
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Shadowman
Official documentary about '80s street art pioneer Richard Hambleton, known as the godfather of street art. This plunges viewers into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movement in the world.
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Conduct! Every Move Counts
Every two years in Frankfurt, 24 young conductors from around the world are invited to take part in the prestigious Sir Georg Solti Conductors' Competition. They only have 20 minutes to work with an orchestra they've never met before and to impress an intimidating panel of judges. The documentary follows five conductors, the 20-year-old Aziz Shokhakimov from Uzbekistan, star New Yorker Alondra de la Parra, Englishman James Lowe, Andreas Hotz from Germany and Japan's Shizuo Z. Kuwahara.
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The Work
Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, it follows three men from outside as they participate in a four-day group therapy retreat with level-four convicts. Over the four days, each man in the room takes his turn delving deep into his past. The raw and revealing process that the incarcerated men undertake exceeds the expectations of the free men, ripping them out of their comfort zones and forcing them to see themselves and the prisoners in unexpected ways.
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Connect
In a social media-centered world, the smart phone has become a cultural rite of passage for kids. But is that rite all wrong? How can this generation of parents blaze a new trail to equip their kids to thrive in an ever-changing digital environment while steering clear of the dangers that lurk nearby? With six kids, Kirk Cameron fully understand this dilemma.
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Mystery of the Jurassic
Join a trek to a remote plateau in Argentina, where scientists believe an incredible dinosaur graveyard could be the most significant dinosaur find ever. A complete snapshot of life in the Middle Jurassic is hidden in the rock: after this mysterious period, the dinosaurs grew massively in size and came to dominate the globe.
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Rwanda: The Royal Tour
Rwandan president Paul Kagame leads a tour of his country. Included: gorilla trekking through Volcanoes National Park; jet skiing in Lake Kivu; exploring Nyungwe Forest National Park; and observing wildlife at Akagera National Park.
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Beyond All Boundaries
The stories of three ordinary Indians, a penniless superfan, a boy superstar and a girl cricketer, for each of whom the sport of cricket is a lifeline.
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By Blood
Americans are familiar with the removal of Cherokees in the infamous "Trail of Tears," but the involvement of African-American slaves is far less known. When the US Indian Removal Act forced Native Americans to relinquish their native land and move west, countless slaves followed them into the frontier, bound and shackled.
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