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Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every cliched element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy, and proved that even sophomoric,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
עברית
Description
5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Guy Davidi and Burnat.
5) Mediterranea
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Best friends Ayiva and Abas live hard lives in Burkina Faso and dream of a better future that seems to await them in Europe, as evidenced by the glittering snapshots they've seen on social media of an immigrant's life abroad. Making the dangerous journey through Africa and across the Mediterranean Sea, they end up in the Italian city of Rosarno, only to lead equally hard lives of long working hours, harsh living conditions, and animosity toward them....
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places: Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless...
7) Shoah
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos.
Publisher
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of how Simone Weil Lipman was able to save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust is a starting point for an exploration of what it takes to defy genocide. The film focuses on Damas Gisimba, director of a small orphanage in Rwanda that was besieged by militias during the 1994 genocide. Learn how Gisimba, with the help of American aid worker Carl Wilkens, managed to protect, care for, and save some 400 people.
10) Empire
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Making sense of modern Britain is a tough call. But the explanation, more often than not, lies in the British Empire. Jeremy Paxman believes that unless the British come to terms with their Imperial past, theyll never understand who they are and where they're going today. In this five-part series, he cuts through the British national embarrassment, turning his forensic and unapologetic gaze on to this most compelling period of our history and tracing...
11) All Jews out!
Publisher
National Center for Jewish Film
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The film maker travels from New York to Goppingen, Germany. He interviews many Jews who relate their recollections of the Holocaust and events leading up to it.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The two surviving Bielski brothers explain how they commanded the largest Jewish partisan group in occupied Europe during World War II. Survivors relate experiences and stories from this 1,500 member underground resistance group based in Byelorussia forest.
14) In my country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
16) Paper clips
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper...
Publisher
K.W. Hoffman
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Photojournalist Karl W. Hoffman moved to Arivaca, Arizona in order to document daily life on the Mexican-American border. His film captures the complexity of issues that exist on the border, including the political whims of two governments, illegal immigration, organized crime and drug trafficking, social change and ethnic conflict.
Series
Publisher
Maxwell's Collection [Distributor]
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As opposed to most global cities, where migrants come from other countries, the face of Mexico City is being changed by millions of Indian migrants who have come from other regions in Mexico. Economic growth in Mexico, at around 6.5 percent a year is strong and attracting foreign investors, but globalization has sharply increased the disparity between rich and poor. Mexico is not a poor country without resources, but has a bad system of distributing...
19) Miss Sarajevo
Publisher
Bill Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Documentary that portrays the lives of people in Sarajevo during the seige of 1992-1996.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabińska and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with...