Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)
1) Food, Inc
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. --
3) Iris
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the Great Depression.
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with over one billion dollars, while investors and employees lost everything.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches-to-rags success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.
7) Blackfish
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Killer whales are beloved as majestic, friendly giants yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously. Blackfish unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of the notorious performing whale Tilikum, who - unlike any orca in the wild - has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. Blackfish expands on the discussion of keeping such intelligent creatures in captivity.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) introduces a new fashion exhibition Gala Event every year on the first Monday of May. A grand fashion and cultural exhibit fundraiser, the event is attended by A-List celebrities such as George Clooney, Rihanna, Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts and on. The film goes back stage at MOMA and the famous fashion houses in Europe, giving the viewer unprecedented access to fashion and cultural archives." --...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mind-bending 'Sci-fi Noir' in the tradition of Blade Runner, Gattaca and Memento. Daring physicist Jim Beale has invented a machine that can fold space-time, uncovering the secret of time travel. But a ruthless corporate tycoon, Klaus Meisner, will stop at nothing to steal it. To protect his discovery, Jim travels back in time to stop the conspiracy before it can happen. Once in the past, Jim uncovers a surprising truth about Abby, the machine,...
11) Finding Amanda
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab in a last ditch effort to save his marriage.
12) Kairo: pulse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainmment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
A group of young friends are rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own and his subsequent ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. More deaths follow as the world is slowly being drained of life.
13) Experimenter
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The true life story of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose legendary experiment tested ordinary people's willingness to obey orders from an authority figure, even if they felt what they were doing was wrong. This led Milgram's whirring mind to delve into a parade of human behavior inquiries, including the Six Degrees Of Separation theory.
14) Slay the dragon
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Gerrymandering has become an immensely powerful weapon of partisan advantage, creating an unresponsive and unaccountable government. But ahead of the 2020 elections and a new round of redistricting, voters are fighting back. With exclusive access to influential, citizen-led activist groups, as well as the legal team that brought the most important voting rights case in a generation to the Supreme Court, the film chronicles the civic grit that is...
15) The architect
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An architect engages in a conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex that the architect designed.
16) No end in sight
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An insider's look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officals, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy - the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American expat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the test.
18) Smash his camera
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ron Galella, notorious paparazzo, captured some of the most memorable celebrity photographs. In order to do so, he suffered everything from a restraining order to a broken jaw. Includes archival footage of Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, Brad Pitt, Marlon Brando, and more.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A critical examination of Steve Jobs, revered both as an iconoclastic genius and denounced as a barbed-tongued tyrant. Interviews with a handful of those closest to him unravel the larger than life myth he deliberately crafted, and examine the endurance of his values which continue to shape the culture of Silicon Valley to this day." --
20) Jesus camp
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future. Follow these children at summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota as they hone their 'prophetic gifts'.
