Summary: Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceeded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD WHESummary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MERSummary: In 1957, Rogosin travelled to South Africa and created a powerfully, moving drama exposing the harsh reality of life under the system apartheid. Filmed secretly under the noses of the feared South African police, Rogosin, his crew, and cast risked arrest and deportation. Miriam Makeba was banned from her country after travelling to Venice for the movie's premiere. The scenes shot in the vibrant...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMSummary: Pink ribbons, the symbol of the breast cancer prevention movement, are everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums - the list goes on and on. They make people feel good, as if engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? More and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Wouldn't it be something if some of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUSummary: Walt Disney was uniquely adept at art as well as commerce, a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of technology and storytelling. This new film examines Disney's complex life and enduring legacy. Features rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, scenes from some of his greatest films, interviews with biographers and animators, and the designers who helped turn his dream of Disneyland...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: What do the Chrysler Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the film Destination Moon and America's space program all have in common? They were each touched by the creative talents of a forgotten artist named Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986). Told by the people who were influenced by or knew him personally, and punctuated with rare interview footage of Bonestell himself, this award-winning documentary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dms Production Services, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHESummary: A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010. The influence the magazine has had on our culture through turbulent times, morphing into Second City, Saturday Night Live, and the movies, and the stars and sorrows it has produced.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DRUSummary: "Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1975, this stirring chronicle tells the tale of Japanese alpinist Yūichirō Miura and his attempt to ski down Mt. Everest in 1970"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Film Detective 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: Dolphins and whales may appear to be totally alien to us. But with their mental ability, group communication and the recent discovery that dolphins have individual names, they are closer to us than we ever imagined. Ace underwater cameramen Doug Allan and Didier Noirot embark on a quest to film the most amazing stories of whales and dolphins across the ocean world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY E-TV OCESummary: "When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men's Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. The Red Pill chronicles Cassie Jaye's journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REDSummary: "In the days immediately following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen people, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman began filming with students and families whose lives were forever altered"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFT
Summary: From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ApCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC APOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE APOSummary: The inspiring journey of Walt Disney World legend Billy Flanigan from his daunted childhood to a life free of fear, shame, and secrets, all while brightening lives, one Flanigram at a time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Good Deed Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BILSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISSummary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FROSummary: Philosopher, pop-icon, shaman and story teller. As one of the most influential comic book writers in the market today, Grant Morrison is all of these things. His explosive and often controversial 30-year career has made him a household name for comic fans, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Morrison's career is now taking a new turn as he explores media beyond comic books. With film and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Halo 8 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRASummary: Director Douglas Tirola's Brewmaster artfully captures the craftsmanship passion and innovation within the beer industry. The story follows a young ambitious New York lawyer who dreams of becoming a brewmaster and a Milwaukee based professional beer educator as he attempts to become a Master Cicerone. Helping tell the story of beer are some of the best-known personalities. -- container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Row Film 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRESummary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWSummary: This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport. Told with actual video shot during the crisis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has, with his camera, portrayed over sixty years of pop culture. Kirkland's unique style and approach have resulted in hundreds of beautiful that still influence the world today, decades after that first fateful click of the camera. This fascinating feature takes a closer look into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2018