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Film Platform Titles Perfect for Community and Campus Events in 2025
At Film Platform, our driving force for the films we're releasing in 2025 is our commitment to showcasing stories that spark meaningful conversations and resonate with the challenges and triumphs of our time. Read more
Best Documentaries of 2024
For 35 years, Video Librarian selects their best-reviewed films of the year, helping librarians and educators discover premier titles for their patrons and students. Read more
Film Platform Titles Perfect for Community and Campus Events in 2025
At Film Platform, our driving force for the films we're releasing in 2025 is our commitment to showcasing stories that spark meaningful conversations and resonate with the challenges and triumphs of our time. Read more
Praying for Armageddon
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Library patrons or professors interested in the history and politics of the Middle East, Christian sects, or US politics will be most interested in seeing Praying for Armageddon. Highly Recommended. Read more
The Here and Now Project
Rating: 4 of 5
The Here and Now Project is a 4-out-of-5-star documentary resource that would make a strong addition to any educational program, library education program, and will act as an eye-opening experience for any viewer interested in catastrophic weather. Read more
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Rating: 5 of 5
If you’re expanding history or Native film collections, consider Lakota Nation vs. United States above all other films. Highly Recommended. Editor’s Choice. Read more
The Curve
Rating: 3 of 5
It will support a range of disciplines in academic libraries including political science, health science, media studies, and current affairs. Recommended for patrons with an interest in COVID-19 studies. Read more
Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words
Rating: 3 of 5
The educational documentary highlights Justice Ginsburg's impressive accomplishments before and after being appointed to the Supreme Court, despite the odds stacked against her. Read more
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Both engaging and educational, Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know takes the audience to the cutting edge of science and our collective knowledge of the universe. Read more
The Cleaners
Rating: 3 of 5
With the rising proliferation of false, inflammatory, and pornographic material in social media postings, this disturbing documentary by filmmakers Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block raises the pressing question of whether the poisonous effect can ... Read more
Gurrumul
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Blind Aboriginal musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is the subject of Paul Damien Williams’s documentary, which explores not only his subject’s brief and unusual career but also the cultural differences between his Yolngu people of Australia’s ... Read more
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Rating: 3.5 of 5
A touching coming-of-age profile set against the backdrop of war, Simon Lereng Wilmont’s documentary follows Oleg Afanasyev and his loving grandmother Alexandra Ryabichkina over the course of three years as they struggle to live a normal life in ... Read more
In My Room
Rating: 3 of 5
Video diaries posted by a half-dozen youngsters on YouTube provide the raw material for Ayelet Albenda’s documentary, which offers an insightful portrait of adolescent life that might even shock some of the subjects’ parents. Editing together pos... Read more
ISIS, Tomorrow: The Lost Souls of Mosul
Rating: 3.5 of 5
The terrorist group ISIS may have lost virtually all of the territory in Syria and Iraq that made up its so-called caliphate, but this documentary by filmmakers Francesca Mannocchi and Alessio Romenzi makes clear that its legacy of hatred lives o... Read more
Dalí's Last Masterpiece
Rating: 3 of 5
Director David Pujol's documentary plays like a highly evolved example of the guided-tour videos that museums sell in souvenir shops. And the fact that the artist is the inimitable Salvador Dalí—and that Pujol has an elegant, lyrical eye—makes th... Read more
The Shelter
Rating: 3 of 5
The subjects of filmmaker Fernand Melgar's cinema vérité documentary congregate each night to try to gain entrance to a shelter (or l'abri) in Lausanne, Switzerland, that residents call a "bunker" because it appears to spring from the s... Read more
The Muses of Bashevis Singer
Rating: 3 of 5
Celebrated Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) might not have been very handsome—words like “elfin” and “gnome-like” are used here—but this documentary from filmmakers Shaul Betser and Asaf Galay ably demonstrates that he was still q... Read more
Winnie
Rating: 3 of 5
Pascale Lamche's documentary doesn't just present a portrait of a political figure, it also offers a chance for Winnie Madikizela Mandela to set the record straight. Lamche builds her film around archival footage and interviews with Winnie and he... Read more
Snow Monkey
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Australian filmmaker/photojournalist George Gittoes's challenging film overturns stereotypes about chaos-torn Afghanistan using a blend of nonfiction and dramatic confabulation. Yellow House is a collective in Jalalabad that employs art, theatric... Read more
Tempestad
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Filmmaker Tatiana Huezo looks at injustice and corruption in Mexico through the horrific experiences of two women whose lives were destroyed. Miriam Carbajal was a working mother employed at the airport in Cancun when she and several of her colle... Read more
Leaving Africa
Rating: 3 of 5
Filmmaker Iiris Härmä's documentary focuses on two women struggling to achieve social change in today's Uganda. Ritta, a 66-year-old Finnish doctor has lived in Uganda for over a quarter-century, and Kata is a 63-year-old local with whom Ritta sh... Read more