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2 weeks ago | videolibrarian.com | Stephanie Diaz

A Still Small Voice is a feature-length documentary that provides an honest and intimate look into the day-to-day of a chaplaincy residency program at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Viewers learn that chaplains provide a variety of services in hospitals including interfaith religious ceremonies, spiritual guidance, and comfort to patients, their families, and other healthcare professionals. The film briefly shows how chaplains can be an integral part of an interprofessional healthcare team.

1 month ago | videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot |Caroline Madden

Imagine spending the last days of your life with an incurable disease. It’s not a matter of whether it will snatch your life, but when. You only have a few months to live. Linda’s Last Trip documents such a story. The film is about 63-year-old Linda Ann Patchett, diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Adam films Linda as she courageously lives through her last months and comes to terms with her terminal condition. Family support stands out. She spends her last days playing and talking to her grandsons.

1 month ago | videolibrarian.com | Sue-Ellen Beauregard

Even those unfamiliar with Harold Washington will be enlightened by this invigorating documentary that delves deep into the political journey of the trailblazing 51st mayor of Chicago. After six-term mayor Richard J. Daley died in 1976, Michael A. Bilandic took over until he was defeated by Jane Byrne in 1979.

1 month ago | videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot |Caroline Madden

Yves Robert’s My Father’s Glory is an adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s novel, which has the same title. The biography film is in the sequel that includes another film, “My Mother’s Castle,” also authored by Marcel. Both films are memoirs of Marcel’s childhood. My Father’s Glory tells the story of a little boy, Marcel, born in a village in southern France and raised in Marseilles, who looks up to his father. The film’s setting is before the First World War. It’s packed with moments of warmth and charm.

1 month ago | videolibrarian.com | Sue-Ellen Beauregard |Women Make Movies

Directed by Celine Parreñas Shimizu and traveling between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, this thoughtful program focuses on two older Japanese American cousins who were taken away by the FBI following an executive order that forcibly imprisoned Japanese Americans after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.