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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Unemployed everyman Thierry must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, an interview-coaching workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self-respect in the name of reengineering of a workforce fit for a neoliberal technocratic system.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through expert interviews and the web lens of Gen Z, this documentary explores how the explosion of the digital revolution is impacting our society and mental health.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this inspired, genre-twisting film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets behind a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions.
Publisher
The Cinema Guild Inc
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Responding to the increase of noise pollution, a 'major environmental and public health burden' according to the World Health Organization, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. This critical acclaimed documentary takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe - from Denali National Park in Alaska to a forest outside of Tokyo, where a researcher...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
8) Idiocracy
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of the afterlife; and why we use imagery at all....
10) Newtown
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three years after the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, CT that took the lives of twenty elementary school children and six educators on December 14, 2012, the small New England town is a complex psychological web in the wake of yet another act of mass killing at the hands of a disturbed young gunman.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Other Side of Cannabis: Negative Effects of Marijuana on Our Youth tells the stories of a variety of individuals of all ages, as well as interviews with top researchers across the United States. The film elaborates on the effects of marijuana facing our adolescents, teenagers and young adults--whose brains are still forming."--Container.
12) Experimenter
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true life story of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose legendary experiment tested ordinary people's willingness to obey orders from an authority figure, even if they felt what they were doing was wrong. This led Milgram's whirring mind to delve into a parade of human behavior inquiries, including the Six Degrees Of Separation theory.
Publisher
[Distributed by] MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case iin Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill, and why a state kills. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory.
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