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The U: Throughout the 1980s, Miami was at the center of a racial and cultural shift taking place throughout the country, and the University of Miami football team served as a microcosm for this evolution. Broke: Sucked into bad investments, stalked by freeloaders and saddled with medical problems, most pro athletes get shocked by harsh economic realities after years of living the high life.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Many Americans are keeping an important, potentially deadly secret: depression. Approximately 15 million adults in the U.S. struggle with this devastating neurological condition, which affects all ages, races, genders, and socioeconomic groups. Through the voices and stories of people living with depression as well as interviews with doctors and scientists, this film provides an unflinching portrait of the disease while clearly exploring the opportunities...
83) Casa Susanna
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed of dressing as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. Told through the memories of those whose visits...
84) Pilates
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
[2004].
Description
"This pilate routine demonstrates exercise techniques designed to strengthen the lower body, back, and major muscles. These exercises also focus on the abdominal muscles, and demonstrate key breathing and stretching techniques."--from WorldCat.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Meet Patriot, Potomac, Primrose, Poppet, and Phil, five spirited puppies who, from the moment they're born, begin an incredible journey to become guide dogs for the blind. It's a rigorous two-year process that will take the pups from the care of selfless foster volunteers to specialized trainers to, if they make the cut, a lifelong human companion.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
89) Catfish
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev, watching an unsettling story unfold before their eyes.
91) Flowers
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
[Classroom ed.]
Description
Bill Nye shows that flowers are more than just pretty faces. They make seeds, play a key role in pollination, and help plants to reproduce.
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound, and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals - the most successful species on the planet. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
On a rainy August morning in 2018, a massive section of the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and killed 43 people, despite having withstood fifty years of traffic. All over American and Europe, thousands of bridges are listed as structurally deficient -- how can new technologies and engineering improvements make bridges safer?
94) Are you proud?
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
It is a vivid and engaged docu-celebration of the LGBT rights movement from the partial victory of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act to Stonewall, the Gay Liberation Front, the AIDS crisis, Legal Marriage, and finally the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. The film gives an extensive history of the course of LGBT rights campaigning, but, more importantly, also shows how much more work there is to be done. From legal victories to corporate rainbow colors, Ashley...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
"NOVA tells the stories of residents who had to flee for their lives during the 2018 California fire season. Scientists race to understand what's behind the rise of the record-breaking megafires and investigate how forestry practices, climate change, and the physics of fire itself play a role in the dramatic increase in wildfires in recent decades."--Container.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Full screen].
Description
This documentary contains interviews, production shorts, trailers, film clips, and news segments along with behind-the-scenes footage of some of Hitchcock's films, including Psycho, Rear window, Vertigo, Dial M for murder. This film offers a rare look into the life and times of the master of suspense.
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