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Explore how it's possible for us to find meaning in life - even when confronted with the finality of it. Drawing on the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, discover how forms of death denial serve to allay fears about our insignificance, and how we can cultivate meaning in the face of mortality.
22) I'm No Dummy
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Jeff Dunham, Jay Johnson, and Lynn Trefzger are modern masters featured in this entertaining documentary, with historian Tom Ladshaw. A surprising and funny exploration of modern ventriloquism, it's a rare window into the inventive creative drive that lets these storytellers do what they do. Ventriloquism is not your grandfather's novelty act - it's a dynamic and comedic art of the highest level.
24) Menorca
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A hedonistic soccer mom that embarks on a strange journey of self-discovery while seeking to reconnect with her estranged son.
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In Kansas City Confidential, four robbers hold up an armored truck, getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck delivery driver who is accused of involvement in the heist, sets out to discover who set him up and to exact revenge. He follows a trail that leads him to a web of hired killers and corrupt police in Mexico. Kansas City Confidential was the source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir...
26) Ray Meets Helen
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In bizarre, unrelated turns of events, two strangers Ray (Keith Carradine) and Helen (Sondra Locke) each happen upon large sums of money which give them the chance to re-invent themselves.
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Only a miracle can help baseball coach Arthur "Murph" Murphy (Dean Cain) and his losing minor league baseball team. As Murph sets out to recruit new talent for the team, he stumbles upon Mickey (Luke Schroder), a young farmer with an incredible pitcher's arm. However, Mickey's parents are reluctant to allow him to join the team because he has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. Murph convinces Mickey's parents that life in the minor league will...
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To truly understand the subject of death, you have to be able to define it. Here, discover how the definition of death exists on multiple levels and how each of these levels - the religious, biological, philosophical, cultural, legal, and political - determines when a living being becomes a dead one.
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NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL, the feature film debut of Kathleen Hepburn, is a tender and heartbreaking story of a physically disabled mother and discontent son - each alienated from their world and struggling to manage in the face of grief, guilt and chronic disease. Having lived with Parkinson's Disease for almost two decades, Judy is faced with the heightened challenges of daily life when tragedy strikes on their isolated property on the shores of...
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Margherita Taylor is helping a retired couple escape to the tranquility of Norfolk after thirty years in a busy Essex town. Now that their children have flown the nest, the pair are hoping to find a country home that’s full of character for their £350,000 budget. Elsewhere, Margherita discovers Norfolk’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef.
32) Camus
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De L'Homme révolté au Premier homme en passant par La Chute, les dix dernières années de la vie tumultueuse d'Albert Camus. Ce "fidèle infidèle", qui aura raison avant tout le monde sur tant de sujets va connaître en dix ans, une consécration mondiale et la crise la plus importante de son existence.
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Four women are brutally murdered, and Scotland Yard thinks it is the random work of a madman. Holmes and Watson are on the case and they may just come upon the evil Professor Moriarty! One of the finest of the Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce films. Beautifully restored and in Vibrant Color!
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Sonali Shah scours Hampshire’s property market to find somewhere for a couple who is temporarily relying on the goodwill of family. They have a £600k budget and want a country home close to the coast. Sticking with a maritime theme, Sonali also gets behind the scenes at the Mary Rose Museum with the treasures uncovered when King Henry VIII’s warship was raised after four centuries on the seabed.
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Since the dawn of humanity, corpses have held lasting significance for us. In this lecture, probe the various ways human civilizations have "disposed" of corpses - from burial (the oldest method for which evidence still exists) and mummification to cremation and natural exposure (known as "excarnation").
36) The Money Stone
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Hundreds of feet beneath the jungles of Ghana, thousands of sweat-soaked miners squeeze through tiny crevices to dig the raw gold that feeds an insatiable global industry. Considered outlaws by the government, these galamsey have two options-either get rich quick or die trying. As the surging gold rush draws both local prospectors and eager foreign corporations to the impoverished West-African nation, struggling families must decide whether to put...
37) Jess + Moss
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Jess and Moss are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation, abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.
38) His Girl Friday
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Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) walks into the offices of the New York City-based The Morning Post, where she is a star reporter, to tell her boss, editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), that she is quitting. The reason for her absence was among other things to get a Reno divorce, from, of all people, Walter, who admits he was a bad husband. Walter is doing all he can to keep Hildy from remarrying.
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