Participant Media.
1) Zero Days
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black ops cyber attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on an Iranian nuclear facility unleashed malware with unforeseen consequences. The Stuxnet virus infiltrated it's pre-determined target only to spread it's infection outward, ultimately exposing systemic vulnerabilities that threatened the very safety of the planet. Delve deep into the bourgeoning world of digital warfare in this documentary thriller from Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex...
2) Human Flow
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (140 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. HUMAN FLOW, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Official...
3) Denial
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biographical drama recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team, led by Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson), to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Nominated...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world, THE PRICE OF FREE tells the story of countless children who are forced into slave labor due to rising global demands for cheap goods. With the help of a covert network of informants, Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and his dedicated team carry out daring raids to rescue and rehabilitate imprisoned children.
5) Watson
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Captain Watson and his crews have confronted whaling vessels from Europe to the Southern Ocean, seal hunters in Canada, and shark finners in Central America. WATSON blends revealing contemporary interviews with Captain Watson, archival clips of Sea Shepherd’s dramatic encounters, and spectacular underwater nature footage, as award-winning documentarian Lesley Chilcott (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for “Superman”) paints a fascinating portrait...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For almost 50 years, the world’s population has grown at an alarming rate, raising fears about strains on the Earth’s resources. MISCONCEPTION offers a provocative glimpse at how the world, and women in particular, are tackling a subject at once personal and global. Following three individuals, director Jessica Yu focuses on the human implications of this highly charged political issue.
7) Breathe
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Robin (Andrew Garfield) is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of his wife Diana (Claire Foy) and her twin brothers, Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together — raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients. BREATHE is a heartwarming celebration of love and...
Publisher
CBS Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 92 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rafe, an imaginative teenager, is tired of his school's obsession with rules at the expense of any and all creativity. Desperate to shake things up, he and his best friends have come up with a plan to break every single rule in the school and let the students run wild.
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
ANGELS IN THE DUST is the inspiring story of Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist who—with her husband and two daughters—fearlessly walked away from a privileged life in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb to establish Boikarabelo (formerly Botshabelo), an extraordinary village and school that provide shelter, food, and education to more than 550 South African children.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
In DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, Eligio Eloy Vargas, alias Melaneo, a Dominican Park Ranger in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park was found brutally murdered by machete. At the time, he was believed to have been on patrol investigating an illegal charcoal production site often run by Haitians coming across the border into protected Dominican forests. This murder becomes the metaphor for the larger story of increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Please note that this Film is only available through participating public libraries. This unique and powerful film follows two Special Operations soldiers as they struggle with PTSD and reintegrating back into society. THAT WHICH I LOVE DESTROYS ME is an uncensored look at the current epidemic of PTSD and severe mental trauma that create tremendous challenges for returning service members.
13) Foster
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winning filmmakers Deborah Oppenheimer and Mark Jonathan Harris reunite for a revealing first-hand look at the foster care system as seen through the eyes of those who know it best. With extraordinary access to the inner workings of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Oppenheimer and Harris go beyond the sensational headlines and stereotypes.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
50 million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people who are struggling with food insecurity.
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN paints the most intimate of portraits of a New England town as its citizens deploy the power of art to push beyond one of the greatest tragedies in American history. In the aftermath of 2012's Sandy Hook school shooting, Kramer learned that a group of artists from New York were traveling to Newtown to work with kids from the local school system to mount an adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In KINGDOM OF SHADOWS, Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico "drug war", weaving together the stories of a U.S. drug enforcement agent on the border, an activist nun in violence-scarred Monterrey, Mexico, and a former Texas smuggler, to reveal the human side of an often misunderstood conflict.
18) Arna's Children
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Please note that this Film is only available through participating public libraries. Legendary activist Arna Mer Khamis married a Palestinian Arab and spent her life campaigning for justice and human rights in her homeland of Israel. She founded an alternative education system and opened a theatre group for Palestinian children. Five years after Arna’s death, Juliano returns to the camp to discover what happened to ARNA’S CHILDREN.
19) Pressure Cooker
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
PRESSURE COOKER profiles the lives of three high school seniors from Northeast Philadelphia, each with unique hardships but with the shared goal of winning scholarships to the country’s best culinary schools. Their unlikely hero is the irreverent culinary arts teacher, Mrs. Stephenson, whose teaching style is hilariously blunt. Mrs. Stephenson is both a surrogate mother and a culinary boot-camp instructor, as she pushes her kids to achieve beyond...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
3 1/2 MINUTES, TEN BULLETS dissects the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Florida on Black Friday, 2012. The film examines the aftermath of this systemic tragedy, the contradictions within the American criminal justice system -particularly the implications of the "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law, and the racial prejudices that ensued. With intimate access, the film follows the trial of Dunn and its deep...