Inc Kino Lorber
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Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella Valley. In exploring the Valley's history as well its imperiled future, this riveting documentary uncovers an imminent environmental and social crisis, and the looming consequences for the people who call it home.
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[2020]
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The inspiring story of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Harry Chapin. Chapin sold over sixteen million albums and was one of his generation's most beloved artists and activists who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing. The film features a myriad of other performers intimately reflecting on Chapin₂s larger-than-life impact on music and the world.
4) Scrap
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who have deep connections to objects that have reached their end of life. The stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel...
5) Taxi
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a radically changing urban culture, becoming one of America's...
7) Ever deadly
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[2024]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna the Land, a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to The New York Times, ₃demands full attention, whether she's whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky. Ever Deadly weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections,...
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2021.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Coverage of the first National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, 1972.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926-2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices...
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[2024]
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1961, history was on trial. In a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.
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Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, later translated into English by author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida's revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
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2021.
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Takes viewers back to the glory years of Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius. Opening the door to his studio, Balanchine's private laboratory, they reveal new facets of the groundbreaking choreographer: taskmaster, mad scientist, and spiritual teacher. Today, as his former dancers teach a new generation, questions arise: what was the secret of his teaching?...
13) Human
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. "The product of over 2,000 interviews recorded in 60 countries, this unique and thrilling collection of stories and images leads inexorably to the core of what it means to be human. Stories full of love and happiness, hatred and violence, from everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, share a rare sincerity and underline what is universal. Intercut with never-before-seen aerial images accompanied by soaring music..."--Container....
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The documentary captures a raucous night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood, and humanity with the cult writer Charles Bukowski in 1981. It is based on a video interview conducted by producer and journalist Silvia Bizio with Bukowski and his soon-to-be wife Linda at their home in San Pedro, California. The interview was shot on U-matic tapes, which have been digitized and edited along with new shots in Super 8 of scenes of Los...
15) Four Quartets
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Ralph Fiennes's exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology). During the early days of COVID, the Oscar® nominee set himself the challenge of committing Four Quartets to memory, and in 2021 he brought it to the London stage followed by a tour of theaters across the UK. Written by Nobel Prize winner...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed by an African-American female filmmaker from inside North Korea. The idea began at a conference on Korean Re-unification organized by General Colin L. Powell and the Colin Powell Center, where director Savanna Washington was a Graduate Fellow. Through verit ̌footage from inside North Korea, interviews with North Korean refugees, long time aid workers, scholars, and experts...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, this documentary features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.
19) Filmworker
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lord Bullington in Barry Lyndon. That first encounter with the famed auteur proved decisive, he swiftly resolved to devote the rest of his life working for the director, this time behind the scenes, and took on just about every job available: casting director, acting coach, location scout, sound engineer, color corrector, A.D., promoter, and eventually...
20) The challenge
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2018.
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.