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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
A fascinating look at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and in some cases shaped these events, is he in some way complicit?
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
The documentary serves as a fascinating look at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and, in some cases, shaped these events, is he in some way complicit?
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For five years, ordinary men in Syria have been gathering evidence of all war crimes committed, whoever the perpetrators. Amid the thunder of bombs, these anonymous and unsung heroes face the risks in hopes to hold those accountable at court.. Ibrahim, Othman, Sami, César, Adel, and Bassam are the backbone of the most important collection of evidence seen during an ongoing conflict. They've recovered military orders, collected bomb fragments, taken...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Why crime witnesses fail to act. A Naval officer who transformed the U.S. military. Psychedelic drugs like LSD are back in the lab. The meandering voyage of a trash barge that persuaded us to recycle. Andy Borowitz highlights lunar hoax theorists.
5) America's Long Struggle against Slavery: Episode 20,William Lloyd Garrison's "Thousand Witnesses"
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
David Walker's words and Nat Turner's actions had a galvanizing effect upon white abolitionists, most notably William Lloyd Garrison. See how Garrison and others shifted from an attitude of slow, gradual change to a stance of immediacy. Survey an unprecedented campaign to challenge slaveholders' moral authority in the 1830s.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Between 1938 and 1946, the Supreme Court handed down 23 opinions involving civil liberties issues raised by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Explore two of those cases, both of which address whether or not Jehovah’s Witnesses can be forced to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. Learn why the Court came down first on one side of the issue, and then the other.
7) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Albanian
Description
A political official is sent to a faraway prison to bring an important dissident back to the capital. This is an attempt to get him to testify on behalf of the government he fought against, but the failings and challenges of the country' reality frustrate the mission at every turn.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In this final season, U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon returns from maternity leave to her job at the Witness Protection Program, and must quickly find a way to balance motherhood and her job protecting people, both the innocent and cold-blooded killers alike.
Publisher
Flatiron Film Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After Frank 'The Fixer' Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: He wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer, or as he calls it, 'LILYHAMMER.' Thrust into a brand new world, Frank is confronted with a colorful cast of characters totally unlike the New York variety.
12) Sister act
Pub. Date
200u
Language
English
Description
In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
13) Brighton rock
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The emotionally and physically scarred gang leader Pinkie Brown courts and marries a local waitress he detests to stop her from testifying against him.
14) Beast of burden
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
16) Rear window
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
17) The witness
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The name "Kitty Genovese" became synonymous with urban apathy after The New York Times printed an article stating that she was stabbed to death during an attack that lasted more than half an hour, while 38 witnesses did nothing. Fifty years later, her brother uncovers a lie that transformed his life, condemned a city, and defined an era.
18) Witness
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An Amish boy witnesses a murder, and the cop on the case discovers it's part of a conspiracy in his department. Includes all-new special features including a five-part documentary and much more.
19) La bête humaine
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda, now known as Rosie, helps Carter overcome her insecurities...
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