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Publisher
Image Entertainment [dist.]
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Italiano
Description
Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
2) La granja
Author
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
A promising young boxer, a barren midwife, and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories focus around the pursuit of happiness and its unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico. Each actor in this modern day tragedy will ultimately discover how the pursuit of hope can dehumanize and expose underlying animal instincts.
Author
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city's struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. Frontline and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent now live in poverty.
4) Nosotros
Author
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
It follows a group of five friends during the weekend of the Spanish presidential election in December 2015, probably the most important election in Spain's recent history due to the crisis of old institutions and the phenomenal rise of new political parties to transform the political system. Maria, Suko, Sarah, Seda, and Felipe are in their 30's. They are part of a fragile generation, the first one in many decades to live in worse conditions than...
Author
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Many were shocked, not only by the scale of the disaster, but the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery efforts. Structured into four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans. Tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this...
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