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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,612 films · Page 221.

Brooks – The City of 100 Hellos (2011)

documentary film

The 49-minute film, directed by Brandy Yanchyk and produced by Brandy Y Productions, gives a glimpse into the lives of many of the new immigrants, refugees, and temporary foreign workers that have moved to Brooks, Alberta, Canada. It also explores the challenges they face and looks at how long-time residents of Brooks feel about the new immigration in their community. The main attraction for the newcomers is the local meat packing plant owned by XL Foods Lakeside Packers Inc.

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Immortality or Bust (2019)

documentary film

Immortality or Bust explores the transhumanism movement and its major personalities as Zoltan Istvan drives his "Immortality Bus" across America. The film begins with Istvan and his mother, Ilona Gyurko, mourning over the body of his father, Steven Gyurko. Months before his death, Istvan had been driving a 38-foot campaign bus shaped like a giant coffin in hopes of generating publicity for life extension science, which aims to overcome death with technologies such as genetic editing, robotic organs, and mind uploading.

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Before We Forget (2011)

documentary film

The film tells the story of Joyce Fernandez, a 50-year-old woman caring for her mother, Celine Fernandez, who has had Alzheimer's disease for seven years. When Celine suffers a mild stroke and is hospitalized for over three months, Joyce attempts to keep herself together, especially after Celine loses all of what little speech and she originally had. The duo, staunch Catholics, keep their heads above the emotional turmoil through daily prayer.

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Cultures en transition (2011)

Documentation

Using interviews and overlays of graphics and text, the film presents the current problems facing industrial agriculture. It explores why in the interviewees' view the current industrial model is not up to the task of feeding the world's people. According to the film every calorie of energy contained in a food source currently takes between 10 and 20 calories of crude oil in the production of fertilizers and transportation to produce, leading to a strong dependence of the cost of food on oil prices.

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Burning the Future: Coal in America (2008)

documentary film

thumb|600x600px|The mountaintop removal site at Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.This documentary concerns the coal industry's use of mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia and the direct impact of this practice on West Virginia residents. The film particularly focuses on South West Virginia resident, Maria Gunnoe, an activist for the protection of her home state and its residents. In 2003, Gunnoe's property, bridges, and five acres of land were destroyed within two hours of rainfall by a large flood, caused by the coal industry's elimination of about 1.4 million acres of mountains.

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