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A deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth's most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela's mighty Angels Falls, water is the main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky...

Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current education crisis from the halls of Harvard, to community...

The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

"Una Mujer Fantástica es la historia de Marina, una mesera y cantante, y Orlando, un hombre mayor, que estan enamorados y planean un futuro juntos. Despues de que Orlando enferma repentinamente y muere, Marina se ve obligada a enfrentar a su familia y a la socidad, y luchar para demostrarles quien es: una mujer fuerte, pasional...fantástica."--provided by container. Marina and Orlando are in love and planning their future, when one night Orlando...

A rich and inspiring documentary that takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment. Narrated by award winner Tilda Swinton.

A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. After Newtown, guns in America: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years. Americans have relied on guns to sustain communities, challenge authority,...

Argo: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Based on the declassified true story. American beauty: An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell...