Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.
“Killing Them Safely”
Trailer / Website / Reviews
Shown at the Missouri Theatre last year, this documentary directed by Columbia filmmaker Nick Berardini examines Taser International, the company responsible for the worldwide sale of Tasers to law enforcement, and explores whether the device’s safety record is at odds with its reputation as a nonlethal tool for the police.
“Dream/Killer”
Trailer / Website / Reviews
Playing at Ragtag Cinema earlier this year, this documentary examines events that happened in Columbia, Missouri. In 2005, a resident named Ryan Ferguson was controversially convicted of murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison. The film is told through the eyes of Ryan’s father, whose persistent amateur sleuthing saved his son from a lifetime in prison.
“Off the Menu: Asian America”
Trailer / Website / Reviews
The latest from Columbia-native director Grace Lee (American Revolutionary), this film grapples with how family, tradition, faith and geography shape our relationship to food. A road trip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving community.
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
Trailer / Website / Reviews
Playing at Ragtag Cinema last year, this film is a provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations, direct from the women who lived it. The film dramatizes the movement in its exhilarating, quarrelsome, sometimes heart-wrenching glory.
“Game of Thrones”
Season 5
Website / Reviews
This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. This season features some of the most explosive scenes yet, as the promise that “Winter is Coming” becomes more ominous than ever before.
Other notable releases:
“Medium Cool” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Manhattan” – Season 2 – Website / Reviews
“Peaky Blinders” – Season 2 – Website / Reviews
“The Fall” – Season 2 – Website / Reviews
“The Americans” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews
“The Bridge” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews
“Night Will Fall” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Becoming Bulletproof” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
