Limited Partnership (2014)

Director: Thomas G. Miller
Run Time: 74 min.
Call Number: KF539 .L56 2014
 

"Limited Partnership chronicles the 40-year love story between Filipino American Richard Adams and his Australian husband, Tony Sullivan. In 1975, thanks to a courageous county clerk in Boulder, Colorado, Richard and Tony were one of the first same sex couples to be legally married in the world. Richard immediately filed for a green card for Tony based on their marriage....The film follows Richard and Tony’s personal trajectory, which parallels the history of the LGBT marriage and immigration equality movements, from their 1971 meeting at an L.A. gay bar called 'The Closet;' to the 1975 signing of their marriage license in Colorado; through the era of AIDS; and all the way up to the historic U.S. Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage in June 2013 and again in 2015." 
—Distributor's description

The Waiting Room (2012)

Director: Peter Nicks
Run Time: 81 min.

"If I could choose one film to play in the White House screening room this year, it would be 'The Waiting Room,' Peter Nicks’s magnificent documentary portrait of a hospital emergency room that eloquently portrays the faults and limitations of the American health care system, even as it punctures some of the most toxic stereotypes surrounding it. . . . With grace, discretion and supreme tact, Nicks sweeps viewers to a climactic montage that wordlessly honors the best ways we care for one another. 'The Waiting Room' bears poetic witness to an overlooked fact: America’s health care system may be broken, but its people are anything but."
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post (full review here)

Cartel Land (2016)

Director: Matthew Heineman
Run Time: 80 min.
Call Number: HV5840.M4 C37 2016

"In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as 'El Doctor,' leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley – a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley – Tim 'Nailer' Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border. Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor, and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. The film is a chilling, visceral meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil." 

—Distributor's description

This Changes Everything (2015)

Director: Avi Lewis 
Run time: 90 min. 
Call number:  HC79.E5 T48 2015

"Serving as a visual companion to narrator Naomi Klein's book, this is a survey of international activism in the face of those environmental inconvenient truths. It travels from Alberta's Tar Sands to the South India site of a proposed power plant to financially strapped Halkidiki, Greece, to smog-choked Beijing. . . . Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors — namely, a modicum of hope for the future."
—Michael Rechtshaffen, L.A. Times (full review here)

The Last Colony (2015)

Director: Juan Agustín Márquez

Run time: 92 min.

Call Number: F1971 .L37 2015  
 

"For 114 years the people of Puerto Rico have maintained a polarizing debate on the status issue that has been front and center of the island's political discourse. Puerto Ricans constantly ponder the three options of Statehood, Independence and Commonwealth. Juan Agustin Marquez brings the status debate to the people of the United States, Congress and the President, asking this century old question: Will there be a change in status in America's Last Colony?"

—Publisher's description