New original films to Netflix this month:
May 5th
The Mars Generation
The film follows a group of trainees, ages 15-18, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center as they prepare to become the engineers, astrophysicists and astronauts of tomorrow. It provides insight into the historical, philosophical, and technological implications of becoming a multi-planetary species and reveals that Mars is closer than you think.
May 12th
Get Me Roger Stone
Roger Stone is a political consultant and advisor to Donald Trump. Get Me Roger Stone traces the monumental shifts that Stone, the youngest person called before the Watergate grand jury and a self-described “dirty trickster”, has made on modern GOP history -- connecting Nixon, Roy Cohn and Reagan with SuperPACs, lobbying, the 2000 election, all the way to the nation’s first reality star President.
May 19th
Laerte-se
After almost 60 years as a man, three kids and three marriages, Laerte Coutinho, one of Brazil’s most brilliant cartoonists, introduced herself as a woman. Netflix first original documentary in Portuguese, embarks on a journey with Laerte where she investigates the feminine world thought the intimate lenses of her everyday life.
May 20th
Blame!
In a distant dystopian future that is wild and out of control, join Killy on a quest to reclaim a dwindling civilisation from the brink of oblivion.
May 26th
War Machine
At the story’s core is Brad Pitt’s sly take on a successful, charismatic four-star general who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by his own hubris and a journalist’s no-holds-barred expose. War Machine addresses the debt we owe to soldiers to question the purposes to which they are being directed.