Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: A tongue-in-cheek look at the insect world, ultimately portraying the insect as an indomitable menace and potential threat to nature and the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HELThomas, Rob
Contents: CD. This is how a heart breaks (3:51) -- Lonely no more (3:46) -- Ever the same (4:17) -- I am an illusion (4:51) -- When the heartache ends (2:52) -- Something to be (4:30) -- All that I am (4:29) -- Problem girl (3:56) -- Fallin' to pieces (4:12) -- My, my, my (4:18) -- Streetcorner symphony (4:08) -- Now comes the night (4:55) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melisma Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THOSummary: With his provocative question, 'why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?' Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man's perseverance, this examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WATSummary: A rare and personal portrait of a boy who becomes a musician, a husband, a rock star, a father and a songwriter whose words have touched millions. Cobain's story unfolds through his own narrative assembled from more than 25 hours of audiotaped conversations, never before made public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Turns much of its focus on the unseen James Dean, tracing the little-known television career that preceded the Hollywood legend's three famed feature films. A working actor since 1951, Dean had roles in some 38 TV productions prior to his movie breakthrough in East of Eden. Included is footage from 28 of Dean's TV appearances, and interviews with people who knew or worked with Dean in those...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JAMSummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Freedom Behind Bars Productions 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DHASummary: 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.
Format: moving image
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...
Format: moving image
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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KNUSummary: Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNTSummary: One of the most prominent names in magic in the latter half of the 20th century, David Copperfield has been amazing audiences with his grand-scale tricks and sleights of hand. Compiles some of David's greatest magical feats, including the disappearing Statue of Liberty, the vanishing airplane, the "imploding building" and walking through the Great Wall of China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SRO Entertainment 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DAVSegerman, 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.
Format: moving image
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: Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDSummary: A look at the life of Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons, to try and get his life back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASSummary: Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHO
Summary: At 14, Toronto school friends Steve 'Lips' Ludlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the 'demigods of Canadian metal,' releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982's Metal on Metal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VH1 Films 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ANV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ANV
Summary: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born in Ghana with a deformed right leg but he beat incredible odds and became a hero after riding a bicycle across the nation, with only one leg. He helped bring political and social change to Ghana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicling this capital case from 1984-2004, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg painstakingly frame the judicial and emotional reponses to a chilling crime, and the implications surrounding Darryl Hunt's wrongful conviction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Thinkfilm 2007