Tower - DVD

Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi (Page One Inside the New York Times) asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With escalating tuition rates and student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. Ivory Tower explores the current education crisis from the halls of Harvard, to community colleges, to online learning, providing a surprising look at the university landscape.

It's the University of Texas campus in Austin, but it seems like a war zone. Gunfire resounds from everywhere. People fall. Others scramble to flee or help the wounded. Meanwhile, from atop the school's landmark Tower, Charles Whitman fires off round after lethal round. The Deadly Tower is the powerful story of the 1966 event that was at the time the largest one-person murder spree in U.S. history. Kurt Russell, far removed from the lig

Timestamp is an intimate, time-woven portrait of a generation coming of age in Ukraine, seen through the eyes of young people whose lives have been quietly shaped by uncertainty, resilience, and the slow rhythms of everyday life. Acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Earth) returns to the terrain of adolescence-this time in the real world, among her own friends, students, and fellow citizens-as they record themselves, reflect on the passage of time, and search for meaning in a country still reckoning with it's past and it's fragile present. Filmed across several years, before and after the full-scale Russian invasion, the film traces how young Ukrainians see themselves and their country transforming. Some have left; others have stayed. Their faces, first carefree and curious, gradually carry the weight of awareness. Yet Timestamp resists tragedy; instead, it finds dignity in small acts of continuity-friendships maintained, creative work pursued, laughter shared amid instability. Gornostai's approach is deeply participatory her subjects become co-authors of their own representation. The result is a tender mosaic of voices that collapses the distance between filmmaker and participant, private and political. The film's quietness is it's strength-it allows moments to breathe, letting the audience feel the slow pulse of time itself as it moves through a country on the threshold of change. At once a document and a reflection, Timestamp speaks to the resilience of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times. It is a film about remembering who we are, how we grow, and how cinema-like memory-holds the power to preserve what cannot be repeated.