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1) Remember Me
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two people scarred by grief find happiness in each other. Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin star in this deeply romantic story with a stunning ending.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sunday, December 7, 1941 was a beautiful morning on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. A few sailors and soldiers were already up and playing a game of football near Pearl Harbor. Others were sleeping in their barracks or aboard ships after a late night of partying in Honolulu. An unlucky few were wiping the sleep from their eyes and reporting for duty aboard their ship anchored off Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. Still others headed for adjacent Hickam Field...
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This is quite a story. For there are some stories that are so individually significant that they speak for an entire area of history. Imagine trying to become the first woman doctor, or being a slave woman who helped lead over three hundred others to freedom, or daring simply to write of an equality and a freedom that seemed so natural and yet was left out of the Declaration of Independence. Within the individual stories of the progress and accomplishments...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Even when we choose to be our most authentic selves in our lives, how will we be remembered in death? Fidelia is arranging her best friend Alma's funeral, only to have Alma's parents arrive from Mexico and insist their son be buried as a male. In this heartbreaking story of strong emotions, memory, and truth, Alma's friends pull together to honor both the parents' wishes and those of Alma herself. Remember Me in Red has resonated with film festival...
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Kim Snyder has taken up the fight for the more than 800,000 people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in the U.S. today. Investigating the baffling malady once maligned as "yuppie flu," Snyder interweaves her own four-year battle with the disease with the stories of others facing the same challenges; soccer star Michelle Akers and legendary Hollywood director Blake Edwards are among the participants. More than an account of an epidemic...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every second Sunday of July from the early 1960s until today Cubans and lovers of Cuban music have gathered in New York City for the Recordando el Mamoncillo Festival. Organized by el Club Cubano, "El Mamoncillo" is not just a dance, but an event that has maintained Cuban culture, particularly Afro-Cuban culture, and provided a way for Cuban families to reunite every year. Remembering the Mamoncillo takes views into this joyous event..
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Remembering Yayayi reflects on a pivotal moment in the history of Pintupi people through a body of archival film...In 1974, filmmaker Ian Dunlop visited Yayayi, a remote community in Central Australia. The Pintupi people had recently moved there to get away from the difficulties of living at the larger permanent government settlement of Papunya. Dunlop had come to Yayayi to follow up on the lives of people he had photographed ten years earlier as...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the face of the worst drought on record, rural Australians have gambled their dreams on the chance of rain - and cracks are starting to show in more than just the parched earth. Remembering Rain introduces us to the people of the bush and offers us a glimpse into their lives, their hopes and their fears as they attempt to weather the crisis. These are tough times for families on the land. Prices are low, expenses high. After more than three years...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A story of love, loss and AIDS from a uniquely Australian perspective. In the 1970s, at a prestigious Catholic boys school in Melbourne, arty and flamboyant Tim Conigrave fell madly in love with the star of the school's football team... In 1995, Timothy Conigrave's memoir, Holding the Man, was published. The book told the story of his passionate relationship with his first and only love, John Caleo, a relationship that began in high school and ended...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the lives of Hudson Valley Holocaust survivors...the wisdom they bring to our society...and the acknowledgement of a cathartic healing process where they turn their inner most personal stories into inspirational songs embracing their resilience and pride in surviving and living.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A thoughtful and moving story of a sixteen year old boy who learns to deal with the unique difficulties of becoming an adult in Sarajevo in the 1960's. Young Dino Zolje grows up under the shadow of his good, but ailing father and gets attracted by the world of small time criminals. Then comes Dolly Bell, lovely cabaret girl that turns his world upside down.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Eight times a week, from 1960 to 2002, the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village played midwife to a musical theater ritual that attracted theater-goers from across the globe. That show was the legendary and beloved Fantasticks, and for 42 years and 17,162 performances, a legion of performers-including future luminaries such as F. Murray Abraham, Ricardo Montalban, Elliott Gould, Liza Minnelli, Glenn Close, Richard Chamberlain...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This poetic documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered, and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. Goddess Remembered features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak, and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centred societies with today's environmental crisis. They propose a return to the belief in an interconnected life system,...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The political costs for the war began to add up for the Nixon Administration, and the South Vietnamese were now on their own. The American troops were home, but there was little celebration. The scars of the war would linger in American culture for decades to come..
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, the United States officially became involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia where decades of turmoil had been building since the beginning of World War II. The fall of French Indochina and the spread of Communism, catapulted the country into one of its longest and deadliest wars.. The history of U.S. involvement is told in this 7 part documentary series featuring personal stories from veterans and detailing the battles, strategy, and politics...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as Casablanca, Gaslight, and Anastasia. But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career. Her life took sharp turns and led her in directions she never expected. Plagued by the scandal of...
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