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Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front (2014)

documentary film

Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front is a coming of age story that follows the lives of five Israeli high school graduates who are recruited to serve in the army paratrooper brigade for their compulsory military service - which is viewed in Israel as a rite of passage into Israeli society. The filmmakers follow a lone volunteer soldier from Switzerland, an Ethiopian immigrant, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, a female sergeant who originally planned to evade army service, and the unit commander. The film documents their reactions to their army service, fears, responses to the danger of combat, and their families'…

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India Speaks (1933)

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Ostensibly a filmed recollection of Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent, the film combined actual footage shot in India, with scenes which were created on the sound stages of Hollywood. Halliburton was a well-known adventurer of the day, having traveled the world extensively, and even becoming the first man to swim the Panama Canal. The film follows Halliburton's travels, from the Hindu temple of the Goddess of Kali, through the deserted temples of Angkor Wat, where he is tempted to try to gain a fortune in jewels, only to be thwarted by a guardian cobra.

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Know Your Mushrooms (2008)

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Director Ron Mann and his partners at the first Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, collect and consume mushrooms of every variety, particularly the aesthetically unappealing. Mushroom fans and fungi experts explore and investigate during the four-day festival. Gary Lincoff and mycologist Larry Evans lead a wild mushroom hunt.

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Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age (2022)

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The film exposes the many consequences of online misogyny. It sheds lights on hatred towards women. This Canadian documentary feature by Clermont-Dion and Maroist, succeeds on being suspenseful while it follows four women across two different continents: Laura Boldrini, former President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies; Kiah Morris, former Democratic representative; French actor and YouTuber Marion Séclin; and Laurence Gratton, a school teacher from Montréal.

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Champions of Faith (2008)

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Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition is a documentary film that showcases the intersection of sports and faith in Major League Baseball by profiling many of the most accomplished and devout figures in the game. Major League baseball's Mike Piazza, David Eckstein, Jeff Suppan, Mike Sweeney, Jack McKeon and Rich Donnelly lead the cast in this sports special that tells the story of how their faith plays a role not only on the field but at home.{{cite web}}

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Why Horror? (2014)

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The documentary follows horror movie fan and journalist Tal Zimerman as he tries to look at the reasons why people enjoy the horror genre. The genre is globally popular and is present in a wide variety of formats such as films, books, music, graphic novels, artwork, and video games, yet reactions to it can sometimes be polarized and in some instances Tal feels that the genre's fans are misunderstood. At the same time, Tal is conflicted over how he can be "disturbed by gruesome imagery showcased in the news, but thrives on blood and guts found in movies, books, music, graphic novels and video games" and as such sets out to try to find how…

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Best and Most Beautiful Things (2016)

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The film explores the coming of age of an exuberant and precocious young blind woman, Michelle Smith, who identifies as being on the autism spectrum. As she tries various ways of finding her true self in a new world of adults, she struggles with family tensions and trying to keep a job. On a more personal level, she begins developing a sense of sexual identity through exploring aspects of fetishism.

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Boredom (2012)

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The documentary examines how boredom negatively impacts health, driving people either to morbidity or high risk behaviours, possibly playing a part in the 2011 England riots, and in addiction, among other social problems. Nerenberg participates in a "boring" experiment conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo, where he is made to watch a video of two men hanging laundry while his heart rate and cortisol levels are monitored. He finds himself bored within an extremely short time, and then anxious, nervous and uncomfortable, demonstrating that during boredom, cortisol hormone is released, an activity drug which creates stress.

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