Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
As employers struggle to compete in the global economy, the debates regarding unemployment, debt ceilings, and the trade deficit rage on in our nation's capital. To many Americans, it feels like there is no one fighting for American jobs, especially the jobs in manufacturing. Fortunately, people are making a difference by doing their part in their local communities.
2) Jesus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Filmed in front of a live audience, Sight & Sound's spectacular original stage production is now coming to home viewers. Witness some of the most awe-inspiring, miraculous events as Jesus sets sail with fishermen, challenges the Pharisees, and heals the hurting. Experience the greatest rescue story of all time as the Bible comes to life.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Evel. Not a name that will be forgotten. Not a man that will be forgotten. Hell, he wasn't a man, he was a daredevil. Evel was the original daredevil. He left behind a twisted wreck of a life and a story that can only be told at full speed, straight up, and with no flowery prose. Look back, and look inside. With a cast that includes those who were there, those who wanted to be Evel, and those who became who they are today because of one man.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A documentary film that will tell the bittersweet story of one of the most innovative comedians who ever graced the stage, screen and television, before his untimely death from a drug overdose at the tender age of only 33. Immortalized for his uniquely bold, energetic, and in-your-face comedic style, Chris Farley's off the charts talent cemented his place as a key player in a movement that evolved and redefined the comedic genre.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They thought it would last five weeks instead it went for 151 spectacular sold out shows over a triumphant year and a half across America. What made this tour extraordinary was that Glen had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He was told to hang up his guitar and prepare for the inevitable. Instead, Glen and his wife went public with his diagnosis and announced that he and his family would set out on a "Goodbye Tour".
6) The frontier
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sean, a retired literature professor and civic artist, writes a letter to his estranged son, Tennessee, a ranch hand. Tennessee is uncertain how to respond, but knowing he should see his aging father, he decides to go home. Tennessee arrives just as Nina, Sean's personal trainer fresh off a bad breakup, accepts Sean's offer to move in and help him write his memoirs. The tension between father and son is ever-present.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A film that raises awareness for important animal issues around the world. It uncovers the work that many different individuals and animal organizations do in a way that has never been done before. The film illustrates what is really going on with the underground black market trade of wild and exotic animals, puppy mills, poaching, animal abuse and neglect, conservation, the food we consume, the fur industry, the pet industry and so on.
9) Serving life
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates and, in doing so, embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. Twenty years later, California passed a law allowing incarcerated domestic violence survivors to reopen their cases. This documentary follows two attorneys who take Debbie's case and strive to attain testimonies of long lost witnesses, proof of perjured evidence, and new testimonies from the men who committed the...
12) Amreeka
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card, and she moves with her teenage son to small town Illinois.