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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

Part-rockumentary, part-presidential portrait, JIMMY CARTER: ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT traces how rock music helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House, and the significant role that music has played in President Carter’s life and work.

Lady Gaga: Glory

It’s hard to define her. And that’s precisely the way Lady Gaga wants it. Even her self-named moniker from the Queen Radiohead album means “foolishly enthusiastic and a bit crazy.” Yes, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta had a plan to remake herself into an outrageous icon. It began with Italian Catholic New York City roots then expanded to glam pop, electronic rock, burlesque and even jazz alongside nonagenarian crooner, Tony Bennett. Piano lessons began at age four and taught Stefani to create music by ear.

LIFELONG LEARNING

How To Not Die by Dr. Michael Greger

In How Not to Die, nutrition expert and physician, Dr. Michael Greger takes a deep dive into the top reasons that cause premature death in America. This videobook tries to free the reader to live a healthy lifestyle to help prevent and even reverse the diseases with the highest mortality rates. Dr. Greger backs his advice with scientific evidence. Through this videobook, you’ll learn the exact lifestyle changes you need to live longer. This videobook also contains Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen. Twelve foods that we ought to eat daily and healthy habits backed by the latest nutritional sciences.

NEW TO BIBLIO+ FROM BBC

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Vincent Van Gogh to perfection in this powerful and critically acclaimed docudrama. Based on years of painstaking research, with every single word of dialogue sourced from his original writings, this is the artist’s story, in his own words. For 18 years from 1872, Van Gogh chronicled his eventful life through some 900 letters to his younger brother Theo. Now, this film weaves together the painter’s recorded experiences into a compelling story. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.

Pure

Twenty-four-year-old Marnie is witty, smart and ‘normal’. Well, ‘normal’ apart from the relentless noise inside her head. For the past 3,723 days, Marnie has been experiencing an incessant barrage of graphic x-rated thoughts. Unbeknown to Marnie, she’s caught in the grip of a remarkable form of obsessive compulsive disorder – nicknamed ‘Pure O’. After vividly imagining her parents engrossed in an orgy at their 25th wedding anniversary party, Marnie packs a bag and jumps on the first coach out of Scotland. Moving to London, Marnie is desperate to find out what’s wrong with her.

Little Dorrit

This gripping adaptation by Andrew Davies brings to life Dickens’ powerful story of struggle and hardship in 1820s London. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother’s house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit. The cold and forbidding Mrs Clennam isn’t usually given to charity, so why has she made an exception in taking on Amy? Arthur’s quest to discover the truth takes him to the Marshalsea Prison for Debt. Here he meets and befriends Amy’s father, William Dorrit, who is the prison’s longest serving inmate.

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

All This Panic

Filmed over the course of three years, All this Panic follows Ginger and Dusty, sisters growing up in New York City, along with their friends and classmates as they navigate high school politics and growing up in front of the lens. The teens are disarmingly eloquent and surprisingly candid; they let us in to witness the most confusing, painful, and exciting time of their lives. As the scope of their worlds expands beyond the city’s boundaries and their family homes, their paths diverge

Calendar Girl

A quintessential New York story. For over 70 years, the influential Fashion Calendar with its iconic pink pages laid out every fashion event in New York City, including New York Fashion Week. Behind it was founder Ruth Finley. In 2014, Ruth returned at 95 and sold the Fashion Calendar to the Council of Fashion Designers of America. This documentary examines this momentous transition, and reflects on the life, work, and legacy of this trailblazer and the industry Ruth helped create. 

Daughters of the Sexual Revolution

The behind-the-scenes story of how the original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders became a controversial pop culture phenomenon at the height of the Sexual Revolution.

NEW DISCOVERIES

A Field in England

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. A Field In England is a psychedelic trip into magic and madness from Ben Wheatley, the award-winning director of Down Terrace, Kill List, High Rise and Sightseers.

Cheap Thrills

Cheap Thrills follows Craig, a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend. The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries.

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much is the thrilling, award-winning documentary from CJ Wallis about a math genius from Texas named Ted Slauson who spent the majority of his life memorizing the prize amounts on The Price Is Right. The film explores how Ted went from bidding to banned, and reveals his part in a 2008 perfect bid Showcase scandal that was covered in Esquire, Time Magazine & others.

KIDS AND FAMILY

Sarah and Duck

Meet Sarah, seven years old, with big eyes and a green hat who lives with her quacky, flappy best friend, Duck. Sarah and Duck live in a small village, in a small house, with a small, wonky garden path and a red front door. Together they embark on simple but exciting adventures, exploring their world both near and far in their own wobbly and imaginative way, joined by friends and neighbours including Small Scared Bug and Scarf Lady.

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