Thinkfilm (Firm)
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Baraka School is an experimental institution in Kenya where children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow. Follow 12 out of control boys from the streets of Baltimore as they move into their temporary home, the Baraka School.
4) Primer
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel in this critically acclaimed film about two young engineers and the consequences they face when they invent a machine that enables them to travel back in time.
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The film that helped reopen one of history's most notorious cold case civil rights murders is the result of the director's 10-year journey to uncover the truth. In August, 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only 8 days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered for one of the oldest Southern taboos...
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the torture and killing of an innocent Afghani taxi driver in a gripping probe into reckless abuses of government power. This stunningly crafted narrative demonstrates how one man's life and death symbolizes the erosion of our civil rights.
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hungarian
Description
A teenage Jewish boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to survive.
9) Second best
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy that offers insights into men's expectations of success, Second Best provides a glimpse into what men actually talk about when women aren't around. It explores how a generation of men can overcome falling short of their dreams.
11) Lake of fire
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at the subject of abortion where there can be no absolutes, no 'right' or 'wrong.' Equal time is given to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the specturm, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is 'right' or 'wrong.'
12) Murderball
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
13) Favela rising
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Documents how former drug-trafficker, Anderson Sá and the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug industry and police oppression.
15) Mondovino
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Multiple
Description
A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions. Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter travels to France, California, Italy and New York, speaking with winemakers both large and small. The film offers a look at how business concerns and the homogenization of tastes around the world are changing the way wine is being made. Nossiter's primary focus is on American vintners and their new degree of worldwide acceptance as well...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
With more than 900 items on its menu, all made from scratch in a tiny kitchen humming with improvised Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, Shopsin's has long been a quirky gem of New York food culture. Follows Kenny Shopsin, his family and customers as the restaurant looks for a new place to go.
18) The aristocrats
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Comedy veterans, Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, use their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke. The joke is old burlesque and too extreme to be performed in public. It's called The Aristocrats.
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Michael, fomer high school track star, keeps reality at bay by having a few too many cocktails. His wife is ready to leave him and his career is hanging by a thread. When his friends get together for an intervention, Michael turns it into another party." --
20) War dance
Series
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic...
