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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Since winning the Turner Prize in 2003, Grayson Perry has become the nation's favourite transvestite potter. In this film, he speaks engagingly about why he is an artist that uses ceramics and not a potter, and about the defining themes that run through his work. He explains the elaborate, labour intensive process involved in the making of his work and how he typically uses a variety of different techniques. Alongside the edgy undermining of our expectations...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A powerful international investigation of the global pharmaceutical industry. Every year, many new drugs come to market which offer hope to the sick and dying. They also bring billions of pounds into the coffers of the pharmaceutical industry, making Big Pharma the most profitable and powerful business on earth. Two years in the making, this film investigates just how far drug companies are prepared to go to get their drugs approved; what they will...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrays the transformative vision and extraordinary efforts of Wenzday Jane, a young woman whose mechanical skills and innovative actions are reshaping her community. Wenzday Jane goes to the heart of the sustainability issue by offering practical economic solutions, and suggests that things don't have to be the way they are. As a young child growing up in public housing, Wenzday's bicycle meant personal responsibility and self-direction....
4) Cunnamulla
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line. In the months leading up to a scorching Christmas in the bush, there's a lot more going on than the annual lizard race. Arthur patrols the sunbaked streets in his Flash Cab, the only taxi in town. He's as terse as the company motto - "no cash, no Flash". His wife Neredah knows everyone's business and tells it all. "My father told me never to marry anyone from the end of the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
BUCKDANCER (1965) Featuring Panaloa County fife player Ed Young with Bessie Jones. Ed Young does the Buckdance, demonstrates making a fife, and plays a tune on the fife. GEORGIA SEA ISLAND SINGERS (1964) Shot in 35mm film with multiple cameras on a soundstage when the Sea Island Singers were visiting Los Angeles, this program presents a small part of their repertoire of sacred music, including the songs- Moses, Yonder Comes Day, Buzzard Lope (Throw...
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sing along with Barney, Bob the Builder, and Thomas & Friends as they strike up the band! Discover that piano-playing is even better with Barney, join Rusty the diesel as he learns to toot his own horn, learn to sing with Lofty and his feathered friends, and pirouette alongside Angelina Ballerina as she teaches her pals that music is a beautiful language.
7) Sex: female
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Sex: female, five dozen American women representing a rich variety of ages, ethnic groups, and economic backgrounds go public with some of their innermost secrets. A 76 year old grandmother talks about how she manages sex with her 77 year old boyfriend three times a week, no Viagra needed. A sexy single mother says "when I do need sex, I get the man out of the drawer. He's not going to complain, he's not going to give me any trouble. He's just...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
An affectionate portrayal of being old today. Three Golden Oldies pass on their astute and humorous insights on becoming old and poor, and the stark choices they now face in their twilight years. Full of wisdom, independent spirit and hard earned perspective. Makes you ask, "Could this happen to me?" We are living longer than ever before. As one 102 year old says in this affectionate and surprisingly lighthearted documentary says "We're living too...
9) Miss Potter
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954, 102 min.): Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his...
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Scarlet Street (1945, 103 min.): A timid and unassuming middle-aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend.
Hitch-hiker (1953, 71 min.): Two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip decide to pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a killer.
Contraband (1940, 80 min.): Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish...
Publisher
Cinedigm Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
A very merry mix-up (87 min.): A woman sets out to meet her fiancé's family at Christmas and winds up at the wrong house. Once the mistake is corrected, she realizes that her bond with the wrong family and their eligible son is stronger than her bond with the right one.
The Christmas ornament (87 min.): Widow Kathy Howard is having a hard time facing her first Christmas without her husband when she meets Christmas tree lot owner Tim Pierce who helps...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she is pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, throws her into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. Ellen, at the same time, is on a mission to take Patty down. She's agreed to act as an informant...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For the honor of Grayskull... I am She-Ra!" By repeating these mystical words, Princess Adora is transformed into a powerful heroine. Join She-Ra, Swift Wind, Bow, Kowl and even more of the valiant heroes of the Great Rebellion as they battle to liberate Etheria from the merciless Hordak and his Evil Horde.
15) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman, a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Where are the children: "Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime." -- IMDb.com
The cradle will fall: "Charged with investigating the suicide of a pregnant woman, prosecutor Kate DeMalo unwittingly becomes entangled in a complex mystery involving cheating husbands, strange doctors and murder." -- IMDb.com
Lucky...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958): Baron Frankenstein is saved from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, and when they move to Carlsbruck he becomes known as the celebrated Dr. Stein and begins his gruesome experiments, this time transplanting Fritz's brain into his latest creation, a normal healthy body.
The Snorkel (1958): Paul Decker arranges the perfect murder of his wife. Lightly drugging her into unconsciousness, he then seals the room...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Watch me: Tess Hooper is a diligent and earnest cinema studies student, haunted by a shameful incident from her past. One by one Tess's friends end up brutally murdered after opening the "Watch Me" email, a file that spreads through electronic address books to seek its next victim. All murders bear the same traits: a red-headed woman in a yellow dress, an internet connection, the victims' eyes sewn shut. As Tess becomes the next target in line, she...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Babes in arms: Learning that his parents are in financial straits, the son of a famous vaudeville team rounds up all the stage kids and puts on a lavish show to raise money. The future looks rosy until a hurricane washes the whole enterprise away on opening night.
Strike up the band: Jimmy and Mary are two talented high school students ready and eager to climb the ladder of success. He's a band leader and she's his lovelorn singer. Together they...
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