Jerry Brown
The Times of Harvey Milk
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councillor. Academy Award winner for Best Documentary.
Koyaanisqatsi
A motion picture essay which takes a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances. The first film in a trilogy which was followed by Powaqqatsi.
The First Angry Man
If you ever wondered how the great public ambitions of postwar America collapsed into a permanent tax revolt (cue the Tea Party) and the election of a so-called populist president, look no further than Howard Jarvis, whose 1978 ballot initiative, Proposition 13, changed everything in California and beyond. "The First Angry Man," a new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Jason Cohn and Camille Servan-Schreiber ("Eames: The Architect and the Painter"), unpacks the dramatic campaign, its quirky characters and its enduring consequences. Featuring lively archival footage and interviews with first-hand witnesses to the events, including governor Gray Davis, Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz and anti-tax firebrand Grover Norquist, "The First Angry Man" draws a bracket around the last four decades of American political life, inviting viewers to see our era as an anomaly in American history, at odds with some of our nation's deepest underpinnings.
Ivory Tower
Er college verdt prisen? Nyskapende filmskaper Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times) spør det kritiske spørsmålet om verdien av høyere utdanning og avslører hvordan colleger har begynt å følge en forretningsmodell som ofte fremmer vekst fremfor kvalitetslæring. Med stadig voksende skolepenger og en samlet studiegjeld på over en trillion dollar er den en gang store amerikanske institusjonen ved bristepunktet. Ivory Tower utforsker den nåværende utdanningskrisen, fra Harvards saler til samfunnscolleger til nettlæring, og gir et utrolig innblikk i universitetslandskapet.