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Widescreen DVD collectionSummary: "Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUNSummary: 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: Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRISegerman, Steve
Summary: Two young South Africans set out to determine what happened to early '70s Detroit rocker Rodriguez, who became a cult superstar in their country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD SEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SEASummary: Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: An evil drow-elf is displaced by Hurricane Katrina. A sanitation worker lures friends into a Sphere of Annihilation. A failed supervillian starts a cable access show involving ninjas, puppets, and a cooking segment. These are the characters, real and imagined, of Keven McAlester's new documentary film, The Dungeon masters. Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DUNSummary: Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife dead of heart failure. Police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contacted the FBI. Only hours after his wife's tragic death, he found himself detained as a suspected "bioterrorist," as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suites scoured his home, seizing his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSummary: "Analysis of how governments bent on war-making have relied on a vast arsenal of propaganda techniques to overcome resistance at home and disapproval abroad ... Moving from Vietnam to Iraq, the film examines how news reports have become nearly indistinguishable from White House and Pentagon talking points, a problem that has become exacerbated by journalists who have grown accustomed to being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WARSummary: Gandolfini talks with with ten soliders and Marines and their families about their experience during and after their service in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALISummary: The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: "Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Explores the influence and popularity of Harper Lee's only novel, reflecting on the context and history of the novel's setting and the social changes it inspired.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEYHawking, Stephen
Summary: Explores the concept of progress in modern society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SURSummary: Profiles five children with autism, their parents, and acting coach Elaine Hill as they take on the enterprise of a full-length stage production.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2008
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AUTSummary: They are the voices behind the greatest rock, pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now, in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, and more. Includes behind-the-scenes footage, vintage live performances, and interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWESummary: An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. A dramatic tale of human potential and transformation that closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freedom Behind Bars Productions 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DHASummary: Each season, as the ever-thinning Arctic ice recedes, polar bears face a daunting challenge; Grizzly bears in British Columbia must use ingenuity and fancy footwork to collect their catch; The annual rains of the Serengeti draw in the greatest concentration of large animals on Earth; Each year, billions of sardines flood South Africa's east coast creating an action-packed feeding frenzy;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: Opens the door to a world where sight, sound, and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. With Evelyn Glennie, Grammy winning percussionist who is also deaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUSummary: 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: Documentary about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, from the viewpoint of a former Marine who returned home and decided to bring the story to the public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: The cameras follow trailblazing comic, Joan Rivers, for a year and cover her entire career from her break on the Carson show, to her heartbreak over the suicide of her husband, and her role on Celebrity Apprentice. Rivers reveals her relentless desire to keep working with humor and empathy. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, Rivers is once again returned to the spotlight she so richly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOAWakefield, Tim
Summary: Explores the careers of two knuckleball pitchers and documents the difficulties and uncertainties of throwing a knuckleball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KNUSummary: Summiting Mount Everest is a grueling and dangerous endeavor, known to torture the mind, body, and soul of those who even dare. When a 68-year-old great grandfather attempts this feat, what ensued was the worst disaster in mountaineering history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vision films 2020