Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergmans' The virgin spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father's need to avenge the death of his child.
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The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. This satire on greed, violence, paranoia, and human weakness is an exhilarating genre-twister that remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time.
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Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school, and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection.
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Fena, a young trans guy bustling through life in New York City, is afflicted with an incessantly challenging day that resurrects ghosts from his past. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, and airport transfers are the hectic background to this emotional drama that overlaps past, present, and future. Settling the disharmony of transitional upheaval in relationships familial, romantic, and platonic is Fena's task at hand, and his resulting juggling act is equal parts skillful, fumbling, and honest. In negotiating his obliqueness, the poignant moments he finds between himself and others as the distance between them closes are warm, true, and touching.
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Six million Jews were murdered during the Second World War. Millions died in the death camps; millions were killed in systematic mass shootings--a fact that is hardly known today. The perpetrators were face to face with their victims. They shot men, women, children--day after day, obediently and assiduously, as if it were normal work. Tens of thousands of Germans belonged to the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?
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Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai's hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, Fallen angels plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man (Leon Lai Ming) looking to go straight; his business partner (Michelle Reis), who secretly yearns for him; and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.
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This program looks at the development of the Bauhaus and at the key figures involved in it--including founder Walter Gropius, his successor Mies van der Rohe, as well as László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers. The program also sets the history of the Bauhaus in the context of the political unrest and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic in Germany. Former students discuss their time at the Bauhaus and architect Philip Johnson tells how it influenced his work. This video contains rare archival footage of the Bauhaus at Dessau and looks at the architecture of Chicago, much influenced by Mies van der Rohe, who emmigrated there after the Bauhaus was shut by the Nazis in 1933.
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The ancient Egyptian civilization, famous for its pyramids, pharaohs, mummies, and tombs, flourished for thousands of years. But what was its lasting impact? Watch the video to learn how ancient Egypt contributed to modern-day society with its many cultural developments, particularly in language and mathematics.
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Highlighting the idea that a major part of good communication is good listening, this program enables students to improve their listening skills and absorb valuable information. The video identifies the best methods for giving coworkers the attention they deserve and provides eight simple tips that viewers can use to sharpen concentration. These include learning to focus, taking proper notes, putting emotions on hold, avoiding biases and stereotypes, finding a point of interest in a dull but important conversation, and more.
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When used under a doctor's guidance, Adderall, Ritalin, and similar medications can be effective in controlling ADHD. But "pressure over grades and competition for college admissions are encouraging students to abuse prescription stimulants," says The New York Times. Employees--white collar and blue collar alike--abuse them too, for the energy and focus they can provide. And yet the cost of such abuse is high, leading to ever-increasing addiction that produces serious physical and psychological problems. This video follows Randy, a young man with no history of ADHD who began abusing Adderall in high school to improve his performance and, having later dropped out of college, relies on it to enable him to work for days at a time as a handyman for his grandmother.
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From Tierra del Fuego to the Rio Grande, musicians are lending their voices to dynamic political movements. This program features several defiant artists in performances that are interwoven with social commentary on displaced or disadvantaged communities. Mexican-American Lila Downs sings songs of turmoil at the U.S. border. Anibal and Charly, from the group Santa Revuelta, take us inside the Argentine monetary crisis. Brazilian songwriter Chico Cesar has taken up the cause of landless peasants. With the vallenato of Oyeme Choco, members of an Afro-Colombian community sing of the military operations that drove them off their land. Through their music, these groups take viewers inside major grassroots movements shaping the Americas of today.
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White noiseThe Atlantic's first feature documentary is the definitive inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right. With unprecedented access, White noise tracks the rise of far-right nationalism by focusing on the lives of three of its main proponents: Mike Cernovich, a conspiracy theorist and sex blogger turned media entrepreneur; Lauren Southern, an anti-feminist, anti-immigration YouTube star; and Richard Spencer, a white-power ideologue. As white-nationalist violence surges in America and across the world, White noise represents an urgent warning about the power of extremism, and where it's going next.
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By 2050, the world population will grow to ten billion people. In the midst of the heated debate about food security comes this broad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of global food production and distribution--from artificial meat, insects, industrial farming to trendy self-cultivation. Director, best-selling author, and Food Fighter Valentin Thurn (box office hit Taste the waste) seeks worldwide solutions and gives room for innovation and inspiring visions for our future.
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Reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The omnivore's dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast food nation) in a a timely and urgent follow-up sequel to the groundbreaking documentary Food, Inc., and take a fresh look at our vulnerable food system. Food, Inc. ignited a cultural conversation about the multinational corporations controlling our food system at enormous cost to our planet, workforce, and health. Food Inc. 2 comes "back for seconds" to reveal how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only towards increasing profits. The film seeks solutions by innovative farmers, food producers, workers' rights activists, and prominent legislators to create a more sustainable future.
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Disclosure is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood's most beloved moments. Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914), Dog Day Afternoon, The Crying Game, and Boys Don't Cry, and with shows like The Jeffersons, The L-Word, and Pose, they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing yet also evolving, complex, and sometimes humorous. What emerges is a fascinating story of dynamic interplay between trans representation on screen, society's beliefs, and the reality of trans lives.
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Germany's neo-Nazis & the far right investigates the rise of far-right extremism and violence in Germany. It examines how extremists have carried out terror plots and attacks on Jews and migrants, infiltrated the security services, and what authorities are doing to confront the growing problem.
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A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France but his American girlfriend betrays him, leading to a deadly conclusion. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.
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The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye works. Anything goes in Wong's gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas' California Dreamin' into tokens of romantic longing.
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Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his destiny. Donnie, a high-school student, is visited by a demonic rabbit that provides eerie visions of the past and deadly predictions for the future. As Donnie becomes increasingly delusional--and convinced that the world will end in 28 days--he embarks on an increasingly crazed series of actions, which horrify his teachers, scare his parents, and amaze his friends.
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In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secret--but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks : fire walk with me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine--a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.
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Unbreakable minds explores what it is like to live with schizophrenia. It covers three years in the lives of three men (Randy, Brad, and Rob) as they struggle with schizophrenia and depression. A poignant, humorous and unforgettable portrayal of three charming and engaging characters, Unbreakable minds takes us through their experiences from the inside looking out. Behind each of them is a devoted family offering their support, while also fighting to dispel the age-old stigma and stereotypes surrounding mental illness. With the invaluable guidance of WilPower, a unique housing and support centre, our subjects and their families maintain courage and hope. Through their heroic struggles, they present a challenge to society--to smash the last taboo.
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Quietly and out of sight, governments, private investors, and mercenaries are seizing food and water resources, threatening entire populations. These groups are positioning themselves as the new OPEC, with future world powers controlling food instead of oil. This issue is surfacing in real-time as global food prices hit an all-time high, inciting chaos and violence. Russia is weaponizing food against Ukraine and using it to wield global power. The grab is a global thriller blending hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting with the storytelling of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, revealing one of the world's biggest and least known threats.
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Physical activity : fitness basics illustrates that nutrition, along with frequent and regular exercise, are the basic elements of good health. This program discusses the components for maintaining fitness and health: aerobics for the cardiovascular system, muscular conditioning, flexibility, and proper nutrition. It cites the benefits of exercise, which reduces stress, improves over-all health, and may increase life span. It also emphasizes the need for a good diet, focusing on carbohydrates, vegetables, fruit, and adequate protein.
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