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1) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
3) Good kill
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves, and his relationship with his wife begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their...
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Brings the core design principles of The not so big house to life with footage from Not So Big homes around the country. Shows how to transform one's house, condo, or apartment into a beautiful, comfortable home, emphasizing quality over quantity and a high level of personal detail.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
8) Freakonomics
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Explores the role economics plays in various social issues, including child naming and low crime rates.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
10) Delicacy
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
When a woman loses the love of her life, she struggles to rekindle any kind of passion until she begins an unlikely relationship with a klutzy underling at work.
11) Fear and desire
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After surviving a crash landing of their plane, four soldiers find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines and must confront their own fears and desires to survive.
12) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle.
13) Experimenter
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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 Seperation theory.
14) Newtown
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2017]
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.
15) Miele: Honey
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Italiano
Description
Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she's a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele (Honey), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new client with a fatal dose, only to find out he's perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is...
16) Korengal
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Picks up where Restrepo left off. Explains how war works, what it feels like and what it does to the young men who fight it. As one cheers when they kill an enemy fighter, another looks into the camera and asks if God will ever forgive them for all the killing. As one grieves the loss of his friend in combat, another explains why he missed the war after his deployment ended and he would go back in a heartbeat if he could.
17) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A couple has trouble coping with the death of their young son.
19) Life, animated
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship, and brotherhood.
Author
Publisher
Random House Mondadori
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Después de recibir la noticia que padece un cáncer terminal, el autor da una última conferencia en la que reflexiona sobre las cosas importantes que ha aprendido en la vida. Randy Pausch es un gran orador y su discurso se ha comparado con el último de Martín Luther King y con otros discursos memorables. La conferencia entera de setenta minutos está en YouTube y recibe unos 80.000 hits diarios. Las palabras de Pausch contagian la alegría de...