New Movies to Fallsburg Library: New Documentaries

Trailblazing food writer and best-selling memoirist Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America’s food system. Reaching across political and social divides, she meets with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs risking it all to survive. Through Reichl’s eyes, we see the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat. A Sundance Film Festival premiere.

In 1996, Universal Pictures released "Twisters," a film about tornado researchers. This documentary revisits the topic, exploring the motivations of those risking their lives to study dangerous weather. With never-before-seen footage and interviews, it delves into the lives of Storm Chasers.

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Twenty years ago, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, New Yorkers from all walks of life felt compelled to overcome their sense of powerlessness by volunteering to help out in the recovery effort. They brought in supplies, set up relief stations, and for ten months fed and cared for the recovery workers. Many deep and unexpected — even unlikely — relationships developed out of this. Using cinéma vérité footage, interviews and archival photographs, we follow several characters through a series of events reuniting them with each other after the closing of the site. Through their stories we present a portrait of the city within a city that was Ground Zero, and examine how an extremely diverse group of people transcended politics and culture in an effort to heal their city and themselves. 9/12: From Chaos to Community — a 60-minute character-driven documentary — is a vibrant, moving, sometimes funny, sometimes painful portrayal of hope and healing in the wake of disaster.

Explores how various forces of nature affect the planet Earth.

Historian Lucy Worsley delves into the extraordinary love-hate relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation: Sherlock Holmes. In this series, Worsley investigates how Doyle’s early experiences contributed to the invention of Holmes, only for the author to kill off his “monster” six years later. However, the fictional detective’s popularity proved irrepressible, forcing Doyle to resurrect his creation. As Holmes continued to take on a life of his own, the creation begins to influence the creator, leading Doyle to not only solve crimes himself but chase his own strange, supernatural mysteries. Killing Sherlock is a fascinating parallel biography of the author and his fictional character, charting their intersecting stories and how ultimately Doyle was unable to compete with his creation.

Plastic Earth is the first documentary feature film of its kind to cover the solutions and technologies being worked on in the world today to combat and eventually solve the plastic crisis that our world is facing.

Dinesh D'Souza and Dan Bongino consider historical and background material, as well as their interviews with both insiders and ordinary citizens, all with the goal of answering the question, Is the United States becoming a police state?

Dr. Samuel Bora is the only ophthalmologist for over three million people in rural Ethiopia. Dedicating his life to serving the poor in his country, Dr. Samuel performs up to 60 cataract surgeries a day for people who would otherwise be forgotten.

Origins of Hip Hop delves into the inspiring origin story of one of Hip Hop's biggest stars as collaborators, friends, family, and the artists themselves take viewers to where their stories began and trace their path to success.

Billie Holiday had one of the greatest voices of all time. She was a woman of breathtaking talent and global popularity who was unafraid of stirring controversy. She started a notable rebellion singing “Strange Fruit,” which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, Billie is filled with incredible unheard testimonies from musical greats like Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie. Billie showcases an American legend, capturing her depth and complexity through the voices of those who knew her best. It is an arresting and powerful tale of one of the greatest singers who ever lived.

From mysterious megalithic ruins in Bolivia and giant sarcophagi in Egypt, to galactic stargates and over 100,000 newly uncovered Maya structures, to the incredible revelations of UFO pioneers and government whistleblowers, season 20 of Ancient Aliensʼ further examines the theory that extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. Now, at a time when scientists and space agencies around the world are engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the series embarks on a deep dive into the most compelling evidence surrounding the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?

The ground-breaking Oscar-nominated documentary Food Inc ignited a cultural conversation about the multinational corporations that control our food system at enormous cost to our planet, workforce and health. In the sequel FOOD INC 2 comes back for seconds to reveal how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by the government and to offer a sustainable solution for the future.

Centuries ago, North America's largest surviving land animal once roamed the Great Plains-as well as into the East and down to Mexico-in numbers up to 50 million. This fascinating study directed by Ken Burns examines how the bison was slaughtered to near extinction in the late 1800s, to the peril of the indigenous people who depended on it's existence, and how conservationists afterwards brought it's population back from a few hundred to an estimated 350,000 today.

Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It traces the history of money from the ancient world to the modern trading floors of Wall Street. By exposing the practices of central banks and other financial actors who brought the world to its knees in the 2008 financial crisis, this documentary highlights the government's influence on the money creation process and how it causes inflation. Moreover, this film explains how most of the money we use today is created out of thin air by commercial banks when they make loans. Epic in scope, this film examines the patterns of technological innovation and questions everything you thought you knew about money. Is Bitcoin an alternative to national currencies backed by debt? Will Bitcoin and crypto-currencies spark a revolution in how we use money peer to peer? Or is it simply a new tool for criminals and the next bubble waiting to burst? If you trust in your money just as it is, this film has news for you.

Echo In The Canyon celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrd's, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. 1965-67 was a moment when bands came to LA to emulate The Beatles, and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music. Featuring Jacob Dylan, the film explores the Laurel Canyon scene via never-before-heard personal details behind the bands and their songs, and how that music continues to inspire today. Echo in the Canyon contains candid conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas), Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield), David Crosby, Roger McGlinn (The Byrd's), their contemporaries Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, and slightly younger followers Jackson Browne and Tom Petty (in his last film interview), as well as contemporary musicians influenced by their music such as Beck, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Regina Spector and Norah Jones.