Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Trona, California-- a dead-end desert town for people with dead-end lives. And no one is going nowhere faster than Ray Tuckby, a mild-mannered underground parking lot attendant saddled with a neurotic shut-in wife and an ill-mannered, sexually-frustrated son. That is, until Ray's life totally bottoms out. Now, with the help of a childhood sweetheart and a concerned stranger, Ray is about to take back his life and his town in this offbeat...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On November 15th, 1966, four young adults traveling through the West Virginia backwoods of an abandoned TNT plant come across something unnatural. The headlights from their '57 Chevy strike what appears to be a black, lurking, lumbering, 7 foot tall man with red eyes and wings! The first feature-length documentary to delve deeper than any other program to uncover the truth behind this unsolved mystery from 43 years ago.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Join Rip Esselstyn, former Texas firefighter and author of the national bestselling Engine 2 Diet, as he guides the White and Wali families through an Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue. Watch Rip teach the families how to take control of their health through: undertaking a top-to-bottom pantry clean-out, showing them how to navigate the grocery store aisles to not get burned by misleading nutritional labels, and cooking lessons to make family favorite dishes...
6) The drop box
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of a pastor in South Korea who goes to heroic measures to embrace and protect the most vulnerable children in his community. An award-winning feature-length documentary, Audiences learned of Pastor Lee's story, how he one day came upon a newborn who has been abandoned on a cold night in a Seoul alley. That experience prompts him to build a "baby box" at the front of his church, a warm, safe place where desperate mothers can leave...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At the stroke of midnight on August 15th, 1947, as India declares independence from Great Britain, two babies are switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. And so it is that Saleem Sinai, the illegitimat child of a beggar woman, and Shiva, the only son of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destinies meant for each other. Over the next three decades, Saleem and Shiva find themselves on opposite sides of many a conflict.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. Twenty years later, California passed a law allowing incarcerated domestic violence survivors to reopen their cases. This documentary follows two attorneys who take Debbie's case and strive to attain testimonies of long lost witnesses, proof of perjured evidence, and new testimonies from the men who committed the...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality--and not in her capacity to lead, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective"--Container.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...
11) Borg vs. McEnroe
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Bjorn Borg, claim his fifth Wimbledon title. But few know of the drama behind the scenes: at only 24, Borg is close to the end, run-down, worn out and ridden with anxiety. Meanwhile, the challenger John McEnroe, 20, has decided to replace his former hero on the Wimbledon throne. A story about the price of success.
