Summary: Presents the story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia in an effort to save the world from nuclear annihilation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMSummary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: Theatrical newsreels, rare color footage, and propaganda films are all incorporated in this in-depth overview of the War in the Pacific. From Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's response, to the battles that turned the tide. Maps out the battles leading to the surrender of the Japanese forces.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar, Inc. 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORSummary: An interrogation of the culture's fascination with Hitler and Nazism is set against the backdrop of the current rise of white supremacy, the normalization of anti-Semitism and the weaponization of history itself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OURSummary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: From Henry Ford's Model "T" to the classics of the 1930s and 40s, this video "treats viewers to a memorable look at the times, the cars, and the roads that transformed America."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Delaney Communications 1994
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD ROASummary: A visual history of the Beatles beginning in 1940 and ending with the breakup of the band at the end of the '60s. Includes their songs, successes and failures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Apple Corps Ltd. 2002
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEASummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Solidarity! All for One and One for All!₄ Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of American history. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or The Wobblies' as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, sawmills, wheat fields, forests, mines, and on the docks as they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOBSummary: What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BOM
Summary: Profiles two great leaders, warriors, and diplomats of the First Nations of North America, offering an alternative, previously overlooked, history of Canada and the USA. Blends documentary with historical re-enactments and interviews with their descendants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Galafilm 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Uncover the extraordinary lives of women who overcame gender discrimination and segregation to build fulfilling lives and legacies along America's most iconic highway.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: In this documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, learn the amazing true story of "The Father of the Atomic Bomb." J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 - Died on February 18, 1967, A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and best known for creating the Atomic Bomb, during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 921 OppenheimerCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OPP1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD OPPSummary: Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Chronicles the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, covering the emergence of the National Organization (NOW), as well as more radical factions such as WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell!). Includes new and archival interviews with feminists of that era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: Examines America's reaction to humankind's first space satellite 50 years ago and how it brought us closer to nuclear annihilation. Americans feared that the rocket that had launched Sputnik could deliver a nuclear bomb to our shores. Near panic resulted. Using recently declassified footage, this film uncovers how President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev averted global disaster. Includes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Varied Directions International 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FEVSummary: Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF I
Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of the hit television show Gorgeous ladies of wrestling, through the stories of those who lived it. For some, the show was a brief foray into acting and a short-lived adventure. For others, their time in Glow would impact and influence their lives for years to follow. For all of the women, working on GLOW was a unique and exciting experience that will bond them...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2013