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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve the world's most challenging problems without creating an uncontrollable force that ultimately destroys us? ChatGPT and other new A.I. tools can now answer complex questions, write essays, and generate realistic-looking images in a matter of seconds. They can even pass a lawyer's bar exam.
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris's iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World's Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. How did the engineers do it?
4) Food Inc 2
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo team up with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to examine the modern food industry's efficiency and vulnerabilities.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave Americans a new way to serve their country: the Peace Corps. In its 60-year history, 200,000+ volunteers have traveled to more than 140 countries to carry out the organization's mission of world peace and friendship a towering task, indeed. Through interviews with Corps volunteers, Heads-of-State, scholars, journalists, and host country nationals, the film explores how this uniquely American government agency...
7) Ever Deadly
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Throughout her groundbreaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna - the Land - a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to the New York Times, 'demands full attention, whether she's whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.' Ever Deadly weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections,...
Publisher
Via Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at...
Publisher
Seedworks Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a senseless hate crime, an all-American town finds itself desperately seeking answers: What really killed Marcelo Lucero? Just before midnight on November 8, 2008, in a deceptively peaceful Long Island town, 37-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero is assaulted by a group of teenaged boys cruising the streets 'beaner-hopping', a term used to describe the decade-long ritual of attacking Latinos for sport. The adolescent...
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