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1) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The inventive, self-reflexive films of independent trailblazer Cheryl Dunye (THE WATERMELON WOMAN) offer multilayered, sharply funny commentaries on the intersections of black and queer identity. Over the course of six provocative, sardonic shorts, Dunye honed a unique, quasi-documentary style she dubbed “Dunyementary.”
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Randolph Caldecott is best known as the namesake of the award that honors picture book illustrators, and in this inventive biography, leading children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus examines the man behind the medal and shows why he was indeed the father of the modern picture book.
Publisher
Checkerboard Film Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This portrait of Vladimir Kagan–noted furniture designer, sculptor, and writer, documents his creative process, from initial drawings and design ideas through the creation of the Gigi and Gabriella chairs. His long career and continued inventiveness from the late forties to 2016 had a seminal influence on Twentieth Century design.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Step into the world's earliest permanent settlement - the river banks in Mesopotamia. The development of agriculture was a revolution because it allowed humans to live permanently in one place, which led to the invention of writing, the creation of laws, an increase in trade, and technological innovations such as the wheel.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Electronic sensors—instruments that detect some type of physical quantity—have been around for more than 130 years, ever since the invention of the electric thermostat. Explore today's proliferation of sensors all around us and discover their basic similarities as they convert signals into electrical quantities that can be used to take action.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell was trying to improve the telegraph when he and his assistant discovered that speech itself could be transmitted over telegraph wires. Explore the subsequent engineering developments that brought the telephone to almost all households, including Bell's invention of twisted-pair cabling to reduce crosstalk, still in use today.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Although we thought we invented agriculture, insects were using agriculture more than 50 million years before our arrival. Explore the world of the leafcutter ants; they can cut the leaves but not digest them. Instead, they feed the leaves to their fungus garden and eat the fungus, which provides them with a complete source of nutrients.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
What are the origins of slavery? Although ancient Greeks didn't invent the concept, they did leave records. You'll discover the range of work slaves did, from performing domestic duties to being worked to death in the mines. Then travel to Sparta, where helot slaves outnumbered free Spartans by as many as 7 to 1.
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An action-packed, nautical adventure filled with monster mayhem. Captain Seafield, played by director Ryland Brickson Cole Tews himself, assembles a quirky crew to hunt down a terrifying sea monster. As Seafield's obsession grows, can his team keep the mission afloat? Shot in retro black and white on a shoestring budget, this inventive and irreverent film pays homage to classic monster movies.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, Heinrich Hertz proved that the high-frequency phenomena of light and heat are also electromagnetic waves and Nikola Tesla invented the "Tesla coil" which served as the basis for the radio oscillator. A few years later, radio signals were sent and received across the Atlantic Ocean. Examine the developments that led to the television monitor and then the emergence of digital TV.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Arkwright's is still open for business. Granville still has his sights set on romance with Mavis, and Madge is giving Gastric more attention these days, but that could be because she’s impressed with his invention skills. The Black Widow is still keeping her options open in the pursuit of Granville and Mr Newbold. Does she have competition in the shape of forlorn Italian bachelorette Mrs Rossi? Meanwhile, Beth and Leroy try and find a suitor for...
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This documentary detail and analyze the intimate psychological journey of Norma Jeane Baker, calling on never-before-interviewed relatives and experts in the field of psychology. The result of 10 years of extensive research, we are now able to unravel the myth of Marilyn and correct the wild inaccuracies found within so many documentaries and biographies. So many people have been taken in by the pre-approved, media friendly story, which was in fact...
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tania Head's jaw-dropping tale of escape from the south tower was the most astounding: the unimaginable hell she witnessed, the injuries she suffered, and the tragic loss of her fiancé, Dave, in the north tower. She rose to national prominence when she became President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network. But years later, it came to light that Tania Head was never in the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001 and her entire story was an invention...
17) EO
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With his first film in seven years, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following the travels of a nomadic gray donkey named EO. After being removed from the traveling circus, which is the only life he’s ever known, EO begins a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure, all the while observing the follies and triumphs of humankind....
18) Billionaire Boy
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A stellar cast including David Walliams, Catherine Tate and John Thomson, star in this adaptation of David Walliams' book. Billionaire Boy is the story of Len, who makes a billion from inventing a new toilet roll called 'Bumfresh', and his 12 year-old son Joe. Len quickly sets about spending his money, buying a huge mansion, sending Joe to a private school and hiring a celebrity butler in the form of Warwick Davis. But Joe hates his new school and...
19) Scarlet
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël returns home from the frontlines a widower and father to an infant daughter. Raised in rural Normandy, the child Juliette grows into a headstrong young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, a new cryptocurrency was unveiled: OneCoin. At mass events resembling religious gatherings, charismatic founder, Ruja Ignatova, claimed it was on course to become the world’s biggest digital currency and would change the world. In fact, it was a giant ponzi scheme. There was no blockchain, no pay-out system, nothing but the promise of fantastic rates of return. Ruja and her cronies invented a new, favourable exchange rate every day. And...