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Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The DVD was developed especially for beginners, using a mirror-view workout that allows viewers to follow along with ease. This will help improve strength, flexibility, balance, and posture, and develop graceful movement. Master Helen guides viewers through a qigong warm-up, an easy tai chi class, and a cooldown meditation. In a separate chapter, she gives clear step-by-step instruction of the sixteen-movement tai chi form indoors and out, with multiple...
Publisher
The Cinema Guild Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Responding to the increase of noise pollution, a 'major environmental and public health burden' according to the World Health Organization, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. This critical acclaimed documentary takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe - from Denali National Park in Alaska to a forest outside of Tokyo, where a researcher...
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin (HBO's Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) shines a well-deserved light on Puentes de Salud, a health-care clinic serving a population that all-too-easily slips through the cracks: undocumented immigrants. Clínica de Migrantes counters the often dehumanizing and highly politicized rhetoric surrounding America's immigrant population, providing a compassionate profile of patients at Puentes, many of whom have left their families...
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With his beloved Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time off the air for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Pickles must find a way to communicate with his many fans who still need him. Jeff creates a new and controversial method to talk directly to children across the world only to become the target of animosity for the first time in his career. As Jeff navigates the most complicated moral gray areas of his life, he discovers a new side of himself.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time, with over 90 million albums sold. Takes you inside the studio, the counseling sessions the band went through together and the difficult process of finding a new band member.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are coming to understand fat as a fascinating and dynamic organ - one whose size has more to do with biological processes than personal choices. Through real life stories of hunter-gatherers, sumo wrestlers, and supermodels, Nova explores the complex functions of fat and role it plays in controlling hunger, hormones, and even reproduction.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Includes all 22 episodes.
"...a terrific performance from Laurie, who makes a stronger claim on an Emmy nomination every week."--USA Today.
"'House' is a brilliant show."--TV Guide.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Tara Allmen provides the tools every woman needs to enter this phase of their lives triumphantly. Dr. Allmen and other women's health experts explain common symptoms, health risks, and therapeutic options. Also, women share their firsthand experiences, personal journeys, and successful strategies to effectively cope with perimenopause and menopause.
11) The upside
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy. From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. He has to repay his medical intern money by serving four years as a doctor there. Upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish-out-of-water as he's instead reassigned to the tiny village of Cicely, Alaska where the offbeat locals would love for him to stay forever.
13) I, Daniel Blake
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, who speak about their lived experience with mental health challenges, from depression to addiction to suicide ideation.
15) Dirt!: the movie
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
House finds himself in an uncomfortable position: away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracking is actually safe. What he unearthed was a shocking discovery about a practice that is understudied and inadequately regulated, and raced to find answers about fracking...
19) Grey Gardens
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
20) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
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