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1) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy, Georgie (Lola Campbell) is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives alone in her London flat, filling it with magic after the death of her mother. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason (Harris Dickinson) arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant to his efforts. As they adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and...
2) Scrapper
Author
Language
English
Description
Hollis Wallace makes his living driving the streets of Seattle looking for scrap metal, in the hopes of collecting enough to take care of his ailing mother. But Hollis' routine is disrupted when he meets teenager Swan in the basement of an unhinged neighbor. They end up forming a friendship even though the forces in their lives threaten to destroy their new bond completely. Starring Aiden Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire), Michael Beach (Soul...
3) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
4) The Scrapper
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ex-con Jake leads a quiet life caring for his mentally challenged brother until he is pursued by violent Punjabi and Mexican criminals following a botched robbery.
5) Scrap
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who have deep connections to objects that have reached their end of life. The stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, Foreign parts is an exemplary social record of Willets Point, an industrial graveyard of scrap heaps and auto shops in Queens, New York, that is scheduled to be demolished and redeveloped. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign parts discovers a strange community where wrecks,...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Story of Plastic is a searing expose, uncovering the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary you've seen, THE STORY OF PLASTIC presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal...
8) Holler
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A determined young woman from southern Ohio is handed her ticket out of a dying industrial town when she's accepted to college. To pay her way, she joins her brother on a dangerous scrap metal crew which steals from the once-thriving factories at night, then mans the scrapyard during the day. With her goal in sight, Ruth discovers that the ultimate cost for an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, finding herself torn between...
Publisher
Alive Mind
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Multiple
Description
A look at what people from different countries suffer in order to have a job. Includes a coal miner in the Ukraine, a slaughterhouse worker in Nigeria, a sulfur miner in Indonesia, a steel worker in China, and a ship-breaker in Pakistan.
11) Bag it
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes that we then throw away. But where is 'away?' Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health? Follows 'everyman' Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics.
12) Straws
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Each day, Americans use over 500,000,000 plastic straws. They aren't recycled, and Ocean Conservancy's 2014 list ranked them as the number five most found item - adding to the estimated 8.5 metric tons of plastic debris entering oceans annually. The film illustrates how individuals, groups and business owners around the globe are reducing plastic straw use through education, outreach, policy development and utilization of non-plastic alternatives....
13) Marathon Man
Author
Language
English
Description
Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. He has Doc killed, then kidnaps Doc's in-the-dark brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman). Repeating the phrase "Is it safe?" over and over, Szell, a onetime concentration...
Publisher
Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"It's fair to say that we wouldn't have songs like "Kindhearted woman blues", "Traveling riverside blues", "Preaching the blues" or "Hellhound on my trail" without "Blue days blues" (Scrapper Blackwell), "Roll and tumble blues" (Hambone Willie Newburn), "Preaching the blues" (Son House) or "Devil got my woman (Skip Jones). And in "Roots of Robert Johnson" Tom Feldmann takes you verse-by-verse through those songs, and many others, that played such...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake Pentecost is a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous "Kaiju." Now an even more fearsome alien threat has been unleashed on the world and Jake is called back into action by his former co-pilot, Lambert, and a 15-year-old Jaeger hacker, Amara. Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they will set course for a spectacular all-new adventure...
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