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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memoralize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calender becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion. A moving tale of loss, determination, and the perils of...
2) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.
5) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Analysis of how governments bent on war-making have relied on a vast arsenal of propaganda techniques to overcome resistance at home and disapproval abroad ... Moving from Vietnam to Iraq, the film examines how news reports have become nearly indistinguishable from White House and Pentagon talking points, a problem that has become exacerbated by journalists who have grown accustomed to being fed information by official sources"--Container.
7) Outrage
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and others.
Publisher
Disinformation Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of the Jersey Widows (four women who lost their husbands in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center) to pressure the federal government into conducting a legitimate investigation on the 9/11 attacks. Reconstructs Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline, a compilation of documented facts that taken together imply that the Bush Administration was complicitous in the attacks.
