51 Streaming Videos Added to Films on Demand
Our streaming video database Films on Demand has recently added 51 films to its collection. View the full list or check out the highlights below.
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761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, this riveting documentary tells the true story of the first Black tank unit to serve in combat during WWII. The film explores in depth the major battles they faced both overseas while in combat and back home in the United States. It features an interview with one of the last surviving members of the 761st Battalion, as well as the current and first Black Secretary of Defense, Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, alongside new and archival interviews, period footage, still photographs and new commentary and stories from family and relatives of the Black Panther soldiers. The documentary also features insights and opinions of prominent historians on WWII and experts on race and inequality in America.
This fly-on-the-wall look at the unrest caused by the murder of George Floyd amid the COVID-19 pandemic combines the unfiltered realism of Agnès Varda with the social awareness of Raoul Peck, juxtaposing scenes of BLM rallies with portraits of people struggling to adjust amid a global health crisis.
Be Like Others: Transsexuals in Iran
In Iran, according to Islamic law, homosexuality is punishable by death. However, sex-change operations are not only legal, they are embraced by a society that accepts male or female, but nothing in between. This is an intimate, yet alarming, exploration of the grip of Iranian theocracy, the power of internalized shame, and the lengths some people will go to conform.