Movies: Academia

  • 1966
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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    A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animo...

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • 2022
    Honor Society

    Honor Society (2022)

    Honor Society

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    Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like p...

    Honor Society
  • 1948
    Rope

    Rope (1948)

    Rope

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    Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death....

    Rope
  • 2023
    Marguerite's Theorem

    Marguerite's Theorem (2023)

    Marguerite's Theorem

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    The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the b...

    Marguerite's Theorem
  • 2017
    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    8.12017HD

    A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapolo...

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
  • 2023
    Sisyphus Unbound

    Sisyphus Unbound (2023)

    Sisyphus Unbound

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    Virgil, a college writing student, hopes to have his latest story published, but he must first get over one major hurdle before his work gets out to the world, his mercurial writing professor Richard Laymen....

    Sisyphus Unbound
  • 2024
    All the Little Things

    All the Little Things (2024)

    All the Little Things

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    An accomplished molecular biologist moves out of the lab in a quest to make an encyclopedia documenting all the fruit fly species in North America....

    All the Little Things
  • 2023
    Odyssey

    Odyssey (2023)

    Odyssey

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    Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical, creative and intellectual skills. With little money and zero adult participation, the teens build a robot t...

    Odyssey
  • 2023
    Publish or Perish

    Publish or Perish (2023)

    Publish or Perish

    9.82023HD

    A tenure-obsessed English professor accidentally takes a student's life. Desperate to protect his career, he makes a fateful decision, sending his life spiraling out of control....

    Publish or Perish
  • 2020
    Quanta

    Quanta (2020)

    Quanta

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    A physicist's life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego divides them when they receive an unknown signal from space....

    Quanta
  • 2022
    Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse)

    Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse) (2022)

    Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse)

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    A quantum physicist is about to have the breakthrough of the century, but as he closes in on his goal, versions of him from parallel realities force him to untangle the mystery of his own existence; how to be a present father for his son....

    Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse)
  • 2019
    Let Her Speak

    Let Her Speak (2019)

    Let Her Speak

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    A merited female scientist is at an international conference and realises that a male moderator is explaining her own theory back at her, until a remark from the audience wakes both speakers and listeners....

    Let Her Speak
  • 2008
    The Paradigm Shift

    The Paradigm Shift (2008)

    The Paradigm Shift

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    The repercussions are immediate when activist history professor Arthur Collins - out of frustration - assigns his class to design a plan to assassinate the President of the United States. Life becomes particularly tough for the professor's teaching a...

    The Paradigm Shift
  • 2018
    Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

    Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)

    Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

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    Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profi...

    Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
  • 2023
    Juvenilia

    Juvenilia (2023)

    Juvenilia

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    Staying is a choice....

    Juvenilia
  • 2017
    The Argument (with annotations)

    The Argument (with annotations) (2017)

    The Argument (with annotations)

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    What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is, the latest by one of Canada’s most ingenious auteurs is another astounding feat of cerebral and cineph...

    The Argument (with annotations)
  • 2015
    Rosehill

    Rosehill (2015)

    Rosehill

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    After receiving some bad news, a New York escapes to Southern Indiana to visit her old friend, a frustrated sex researcher. The two women embark on a local road trip through a place that has seen better days. Part road trip, part meditation, part imp...

    Rosehill
  • 1969
    Books fly by themselves

    Books fly by themselves (1969)

    Books fly by themselves

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    The documentary explores Gabriel Garcia Marquez influence on everyday life in Barranquilla, taking into account the impact of his time in the city on his life and work. Through testimonies of those who are inspired by his legacy, we reveal the connec...

    Books fly by themselves
  • 1969
    Hellman Fellows Program

    Hellman Fellows Program (1969)

    Hellman Fellows Program

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    Established by Warren & Chris Hellman and their children in 1994, the Hellman Fellows Program has supported more than 850 junior faculty members, who are now chairs and heads of departments, MacArthur Geniuses and tenured faculty with long track reco...

    Hellman Fellows Program