To Be of Service

Nov 1, 2019

1h 28m

★ 6.0

Veterans with PTSD and their service dogs: the bond that heals

Overview

A documentary film about veterans with PTSD who find that, after other treatments fall short, a service dog helps them return to an independent feeling life.

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Documentary

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The lastest neuroscience discoveries show surprising results: false memories, distortion, modification, déjà vus. Our memory is affected in many ways, and deceives us every day. The very fact of recalling souvenirs modifies them. The everyday consequences are manyfold. To what extent can we rely on our souvenirs? How much credit can we give them during trials? Even more shocking, scientists have proved to be able to manipulate our memory: creating artificial souvenirs, deleting, emphasizing or restoring them on demand.

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8.0

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8.5

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0.0

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10.0

An Act of Service

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Rob C., a firefighter in Idaho, undergoes psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in an attempt to address his PTSD.

7.1

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5.8

The Last Season

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In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually heal their wounds of war. Roger, a self-described 'fall-down drunk' and sniper in Vietnam, and Kouy, a Cambodian refugee who fought the Khmer Rouge, bonded in the bustling tent-city known as Mushroom Camp, which pops up each autumn in the Oregon woods. Their friendship became an adoptive family; according to a Cambodian custom, if you lose your family like Kouy, you must rebuilt it anew. Now, however, this new family could be lost. Roger's health is declining and trauma flashbacks rack his mind; Kouy gently aids his family before the snow falls and the hunting season ends, signaling his time to leave.

7.5

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Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

0.0

PAWsonel Preference

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Everyone loves their Cats and people love their Dogs. But which do they love most? This heartfelt documentary, hits the streets of London and Los Angeles to get to the bottom of this age-old debate. Which is better, Cats or Dogs?

0.0

Recovery

Jan 4, 2021

Jean-Claude walks his dog in a neighborhood forever stuck in reconstruction. On his trip, he wonders about life, mortality, and 'what if' scenarios while remembering fragments from the direct impact of the second that almost cost him his life on August 4. At the moment of the explosion, the end of the world, bodies, buildings, roads, and cities may shatter. Perhaps the universe itself breaks apart. But the most severe fragmenting remains that of memory. A picture here and a sound there are vaguely reconstituted. Can a future be built from such a memory? Can it rebuild what was lost? Is it time to leave?

0.0

The Psychic Connection

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People talk about their psychic connection between animals.

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0.0

Bums and Dogs

May 31, 1993

A hotel in the centre of town is a war-time home and refuge for many of Sarajevo's homeless people. Every morning they leave the hotel and wander around the destroyed city gathering again at the defunct hotel in the afternoon. This film follows their separate fates through the bitter comparing of images of the bums with those of dogs abandoned by their owners and now left et the mercy of the war ravaged streets of Sarajevo.

0.0

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0.0

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In 1980s Brooklyn, a resilient family, evicted from public housing, refuses to succumb to homelessness or welfare. Instead, they construct their own home-one scrap of discarded wood at a time.

6.0

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7.2

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0.0

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Paul Ludwig, a K9 police officer and handler himself, was nearly killed when a K9 failed on the street. Sam Edmonds, a decoy//trainer hybrid has been taking bites on the arms and legs while learning from the best of the best over the last 10 years. They joined together to start training and producing some of the toughest K9's in the world while shedding light on an unsettling situation: most working dogs are extremely ill-prepared and under-trained for the reality of our world today. A situation that has led to canine and officer deaths in the past. They talk to several other K9 trainers and officers, hear their stories, meet their partners, and follow their dogs through the training process and back into the streets to protect our communities.

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0.0

Preston's Gone

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Preston Thornton, an Army veteran, was experiencing paranoid delusions at his home. After calling the Veteran's Crisis line, deputies arrived to transport Preston to a hospital, and tragedy followed.

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