Bernard, Sheila Curran
Summary: "Drawing on the narrative tools of the creative writer, the unique strengths of a visual and aural media, and the power of real-world content truthfully presented, Documentary Storytelling offers advice for producers, directors, editors, and cinematographers seeking to make ethical and effective nonfiction films, and for those who use these films to educate, inform, and inspire. Special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.1 BERMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: Nine-year-old Frank, his cousin Sam, and cat Saurus's efforts to keep Peanut the newly-hatched dinosaur's existence a secret become more complicated when their grandmother finds a new fossil that looks like Peanut's horn, but a thousand times bigger, and a crew comes to make a movie about it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J DF 2Summary: Gates of Heaven: uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry. Vernon, Florida: travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GATSummary: Collection of several behind-the-scenes films and television shows highlighting the work of Walt Disney Studios, originally released between 1937 and 1957.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEHContents: The big men: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Willis Reed, Bill Russell, Bill Walton -- The shooting stars: Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Bob Pettit -- The shooting guards: Bob Cousy, Walt Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Sam Jones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marathon Music & Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUNSummary: "Killer B3 puts you in front, behind and inside the more than 425-pound keyboard often called the beast, the Hammond Organ. The Hammond Organ is like a pipe organ on steroids. You need the dexterity of an octopus to control its two keyboards, 36 drawbars, 25 foot pedals and its host of buttons and switches - all of which make it come alive. While there are many models of Hammond Organs, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Soul Productions 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KILSummary: In WNMU-TV's newest documentary, people living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recall World War II, sharing images and stories from the battlefields of Asia and Europe, and the hometowns we know and love. ... WNMU-TV travelled across the U.P., interviewing veterans, historians, and others who lived through the war. They talked about the military life, the battles on land and sea, the heroes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public 13 TV/Northern Michigan University 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 940.53 UPRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV U.P.Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. DVD U.P.Summary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRSummary: Documents an entire school year with Wilma Stephenson and those students committed enough to surrender themselves to her enlightened despotism. By the end of the year, thirteen of her students will have made it through the gauntlet. At a school where over 40% of students don't even make it to their senior year, Wilma shows her kids how to achieve the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal....
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PRESummary: "Since 1925 the Streit's matzo factory has sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. While other matzo companies have modernized, Streit's remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation's unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the factory itself. In a neighborhood where the Jewish immigrants long ago moved on, in a nation where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSummary: Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLASummary: The Crusades began as a holy mission to liberate Jerusalem and became the largest mass migration in European history. When they ended 200 years later, the Crusades had created a mythology of knights and chivalry, and left a legacy of distrust between East and West that continues to shape our world today. Filmed on location throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRUMelleby, Nicole
Summary: On a quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor, ten-year-old middle child Marina enlists Boom, her new neighbor, to help make a documentary about her, but when things do not go according to plan, Marina begins to wonder if she will ever feel like she belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MELSummary: "Where did Anthony 'Zorba the Greek' Quinn actually grow up? What happened to Shirley Temple after the 'Good Ship Lollipop' of child superstardom sailed? Was Grace Kelly always destined to be a princess? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions in this collection!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image/Madacy Entertainment 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEG1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEG
Summary: Margot, a young woman who was abandoned by her mother as a baby, travels to a secluded Amish community with a documentary film crew seeking answers about her mother and extended family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PARSummary: Once the centre of the New York bohemia, Greenwich Village is now home to lux restaurants, and buzzer door clothing stores catering to the nouveau riche. But one shop in the heart of the Village remains resilient to the encroaching gentrification: Carmine Street Guitars. There, custom guitar maker Rick Kelly and his young apprentice Cindy Hulej, build handcrafted guitars out of reclaimed wood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CARSummary: Take an electrifying journey into the unexplored territory of our culture's dark side, and get an up-close and powerfully personal perspective on some of the most savage serial killers in the history of law enforcement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Hosted and based on the book by Dr. Helen Castor, an accomplished and elegant historian, and filmed on location in England and France, this captivating BBC series explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce and fiery reactions they provoked, and whether, in fact, much has changed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013