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41) Futureworld
Pub. Date
[2010, 1976]
Description
"Futureworld" begins where "Westworld" left off, a magnificent computerised complex where each guests' wildest fantasies are fulfilled, and robots do all the work. Two reporters feel something is not as it appears to be, and set out to investigate.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
An intriguing film noir about a novelist out to expose the injustices of capital punishment. Working with his fiancee's father, a newspaper publisher, he frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost, and that's only the first twist in a brilliantly layered plot ideally suited to Lang's talents.
45) Dear Mr. Brody
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Tells the story of Michael James Brody, twenty-one-year-old margarine heir from Scarsdale, NY, who, in 1970, announced that he would give his money away to anyone in need.
Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
"Noah Bryan wants nothing more than to be the next big country music star, until his past catches up to him. Noah learns he has a five-year old child with a new deceased woman he barely remembers, leaving Noah sole custody of the boy. Will Noah do the right thing and raise the child or abandon everything in pursuit of his country music dreams?" --container
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Examines five projects that have won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which embrace the ethical and philosophical criteria that the awards represent, including the revitalization of a French colonial heritage site in Tunisia, China's Bridge School, the Ipekyol Textile Factory, the Zahra Museum, and the Wadi Hanifa Wetlands Project.
49) Dr. Feelgood
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Examines the case of Dr. William Hurwitz, a pain specialist sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for drug trafficking as a result of prescribing highly addicting opioid painkillers, such as oxycontin. Raises questions into setting limits on the prescribing of opioids and whether or not "overprescription" should be treated as a criminal offense.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
55) Hiroshima
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A dramatization of the decision to drop the atomic bomb and its consequences in Japan.
56) The Circle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Michael Moore examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan. With both humor and outrage, the film explores the question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Families pay the price with their jobs, their homes, and their savings....
59) Life and debt
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Jamaica became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the land of sea, sand and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devasting consequences of globalization.
60) Out of the ashes
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
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