Summary: Follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to find healing for him. When two-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former horse trainer, and his wife Kristin sought the best possible medical care, but traditional therapies had little effect. They discovered that Rowan has a profound affinity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dina's getting married in a few weeks and there's still so much to do. She has to move her boyfriend, Scott, from his parents' house to her apartment, and settle him in to only the second home he's ever had, all while juggling his schedule as an early morning Walmart door greeter. She has to get her dress, confirm arrangements with the venue, and make peace with her family, who remain nervous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Orchard 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DINSummary: A definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah." Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen's notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HALSummary: The year is 1989, and 19-year old Jason Becker from Richmond, California has just been offered the biggest rock guitar job on the planet. He's on the cover of every guitar magazine and is being hailed by critics as a genius and the next greatest rock guitarist in the world. Jason's dream will turn into a nightmare when he is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease and given just 3-5 years to live....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JASSummary: A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLISummary: "Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years."--IMDb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SENSummary: Revisits the much-publicized case of Matthew Shepard, the young man tortured and killed in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming for being gay. Family and friends recount Shepard's life and the circumstances surrounding his murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MATSummary: The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD THRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THRSummary: Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. Millions across occupied Europe saw his films, the most infamous of which was the horrific anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Suss, which was required viewing for all SS members. Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes. Included are never-before-seen archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HARSummary: Disc 1. The son of a murdered criminal is enlisted to steal a valuable serum for an AIDS-like disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FEASummary: The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: La historia verdadera de Pablo Escobar, el jefe del cartel de drogas de Medellín, relatado por la primera vez por su hijo Sebastián y su viuda María Isabel Campos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SINSummary: An investigation into the disputed cause of death of black activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody in Waller County, Texas, after a routine traffic stop by state trooper Brian Encinia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAYSummary: A homeless orphan in Kenya becomes a lucrative businessman, only to give it all up and open an orphanage that today serves over 2,000 Kenyan children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brainstorm Media 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MULSummary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GRESummary: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death), forced her to dance for his amusement. This dance saved her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1,393) could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. They are like millions of other boys coming of age the world over, but face unfortunate circumstances an imprisoned mother, isolation, instability, and parental unemployment. Adolescence can be a day-to-day struggle just to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Passion River] 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RIC
Summary: Every family has its secrets. Director Peter Stephan Jungk had always known that his Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. But it was not until twenty years after her death in 1973 that he learned she had led a double life, and changed the course of history. Jungk unravels what had been a well-kept secret by speaking with military historians, photo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: In this documentary, Che Smith (a.k.a. Rhymefest, the Grammy-winning rapper) reunites with his father, an alcoholic living on the streets of Chicago, and struggles to deliver him to safety and an existence that is productive and meaningful, in essence, taking responsibility for the man who had abandoned him as a young child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSummary: It provides a thrilling and intimate look at the life of a professional skier and BASE jumper Matthias Giraud, who stops at nothing to pursue his passion for adventure. The film follows Matthias as he dares to execute ever more dangerous stunts while simultaneously falling in love and starting a family. The story takes a turn when Matthias suffers a catastrophic crash just days before the birth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUPSummary: A grieving father seeks answers after his fourteen-year-old son dies by suicide. He uncovers painful truths about the lives of teens, the impact of unfettered access to internet and social media, and the shocking rise of depression among America's youth. The journey brings him together with young suicide survivors, prevention experts, and parents trying to understand the 70% increase in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021