A real life Best in Show but about chickens, Chicken People follows the struggles
and triumphs of both humans and their chickens on the road to compete at the
Ohio National Poultry Show, considered the Westminster of Chickens.
After the Mayflower: We Shall Remain – America Through Native Eyes
details how English immigration, mistreatment, lethal epidemics, and environmental
degradation had brought the Indians’ way of life to the brink of disaster.
American Sniper is a biopic of Chris Kyle, the most-celebrated sniper in American
military history. In the aftermath of 9/11, Kyle decides to serve his country
by becoming a Navy SEAL. But with each tour of duty, he grows more detached
from his wife and children.
In Ready Player One, a poor teen competes in a contest to win control of a
virtual-reality world called the OASIS. After unlocking the first key to the
prize, he is targeted by an evil corporation and must enlist his friends' help
to fight back.
In Deadpool 2, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of
becoming Mayberry's hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost
sense of taste. Wade must battle ninjas and the yakuza as he journeys
around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor.
Toni Morrison candidly answers questions regarding how she became a writer, the pain of empathizing with her characters, the sensual nature of her novels, and how it felt to win the Nobel Prize.
Inspired by actual events, Waltz With Bashir chronicles one man's
descent into his own half-forgotten past.
Comix: Beyond the Comic Book Pages is a documentary about the world of
comic books told through the thoughts and images of the creators, artists,
writers, collectors, store owners, independent publishers, and passionate fans who have made it the phenomenon that it is today.
In September 11: Eleven Short Films About 9/11, eleven acclaimed directors each make an 11 minute short film in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The result is a daring and moving global cinematic reply that "forces us to look at the entire event afresh" (The New York Times).
In Just Eat It, filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of
food waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own
fridge.
Through interviews with sexuality experts, advocates, and media
figures, UnSlut: A Documentary Film explores the causes and manifestations of
sexual shaming in North America and offers immediate and long-term goals for
personal, local, and institutional solutions.
In Trees and Other Resources, former Sierra Club president David Brower talks about the value of
critical resources, including trees, soil, water and rapidly disappearing
species.
Poetry of Liberation explores the innovations made
in American poetry in the 1960s by Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Adrienne Rich.
Acclaimed architect Jan Gehl and his team are on a humanistic
mission to reclaim public space in mega cities for pedestrians (and cyclists)
rather than cars. This human/new approach to city planning is put to test in
Denmark, Los Angeles, New York, China, Australia, New Zealand and India. Watch The Human Scale to find out more.
There is a group of people in the world today who are more
persecuted than anyone else, but they are not political or religious activists.
They are girls. Being born a girl means you are more likely to be subjected to
violence, disease, poverty and disadvantage than any other group on Earth. Watch I am a Girl to learn the stories of several women with unique struggles.
On her way to the store with a group of friends, Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald was brutally attacked. While defending her life, a man
was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men’s prison in Minnesota. CeCe's powerful story highlights the groundswell of voices questioning
the prison industrial complex and calling for its disassembly.
In The Age of Adaline, a beautiful young woman stops aging after a car accident, and
remains 29 for several decades. She refuses to get close to anyone in order to
keep her condition a secret, but reconsiders her solitary lifestyle after
falling in love with a philanthropist.
POWER TO HEAL tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to
secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to
the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to
mount a coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country
practically overnight.
MOONLIGHT is a moving and transcendent look at three defining
chapters in the life of Chiron, a young man growing up in Miami. His epic
journey to adulthood is guided by support, empathy and love from the most unexpected places.
