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Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
The ancient ancestors of today's Maya people thrived in large sophisticated cities across Central America for centuries. Why, around 750 CE, did they begin to abandon many of their major cities? Archaeologists investigate dramatic new evidence of the catastrophic droughts and instability that pushed cities beyond their limits. The evidence also testifies to the survival and resilience of the Maya people, whose traditions and creativity continue to...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession. In Patricia Rozema's fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and becomes...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Language
English
Description
As deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors to a renegade supervised drug consumption site that employs active and former drug users. Its staff and volunteers do whatever it takes to save lives and give hope to a marginalized community in this intimate documentary that looks beyond the stigma of people who use fentanyl and other drugs.
Series
Exhibition great art on screen volume 27
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Language
English
Description
Marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, the greatest exhibition ever held of his works took place in Rome, Exhibition on Screen was granted exclusive access to this once-in-a-lifetime show. With over two hundred masterpieces, including paintings and drawings - over a hundred of which have been brought together for the first time - this major exhibition celebrates the life and work of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. With unprecedented loans from...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Description
A contemporary LGBTQ comedy loosely based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous. Set over Labor Day Weekend in coastal New England, a middle-aged playwright invites longtime friend, legendary TV diva, Charlotte Christian, and occasionally-working actor friend, Jay Mulch, to read his latest dramatic effort, a mythological comedy based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous....
6) Poker Face
Publisher
VVS Films
Language
English
Description
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatches plans of their breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
Series
Exhibition great art on screen volume EX30
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Language
English
Description
Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as b3sthe father of Impressionismb4s. Born in the West Indies, Pissarro found his passion in painting as a young man in Paris and, by the age of 43, had corralled a group of enthusiastic artists into a new collective. Their first show was scorned by the critics but the group had acquired a new name: the Impressionists. For the next 40 years, Pissarro was the driving...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Language
English
Description
A modern fairytale ... with zombies! Oliver lives alone in his late parents' suburban home and faces rejection at every turn. He is tasked with making new friends, and decides his best bet is to build a perfect TV family starting at the local cemetery ... where he digs friends up one at a time!
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400 million miles from Earth thought to hold important clues about the origins of our solar system. Just hours before, in Senegal, West Africa, a team of scientists sets out to capture extraordinarily precise observations vital to the success of the Lucy mission crucial data needed to help NASA navigate Lucy to its asteroid targets across...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
Thousands of prehistoric footprints left by Ice Age humans and animals stretch for miles across the blinding white surfaces of New Mexico's White Sands National Park. The phenomenal collection of prints preserves a unique series of snapshots of life and behavior, capturing moments when humans crossed paths with extinct Ice Age beasts, including enormous ground sloths and mammoths.
Publisher
Disney
Language
English
Description
On a small Erin isle in the early 1920s, folk musician Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) decided he was weary of the company of longtime, affable but dull drinking buddy Padraic Suilleabhain (Colin Farrell)-and told him so. The hurt Padraic's insistent efforts to get back in Colm's good graces take a series of bizarrely violent turns that put their tiny community up in arms.
14) Elvis
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
15) Zero dark thirty
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
16) The Fabelmans
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up as exes who find themselves on a shared mission: to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. Ticket to Paradise is a romantic comedy about the sweet surprise of second chances.
Publisher
Columbia (Canada)
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Primm family (Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley) moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle - a singing crocodile (Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle's existence is threatened by evil neighbor Mr. Grumps (Brett Gelman), the Primms must band together...
20) Moana
Language
English
Description
Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a Polynesian chief sets out from her island home across the ocean in search of Maui, a demigod, to save her people from a curse.
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