Summary: Everyone has a unique father story. Whether positive or painful, it's always personal and can deeply affect the core of identity and direction of life. This is the first documentary film from the creators of War Room, Overcomer, Fireproof, and Courageous Legacy. Featuring a variety of amazing true stories, this captivating movie takes audiences of all ages on an inspiring and emotionally...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHO

Baldwin, Alec

Summary: Follows the story of John DeLorean through the creation of his company and car to his downfall through drug trafficking and friendship with an FBI informant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRA

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRA

Ailes, Roger

Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIV

Summary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HID

Sandmann, Jeff

Summary: Celebrates the past thirty years of live music in Austin, Texas, and looks at challenges faced by musicians and music venues through the story of the Saxon Pub.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOT

Summary: This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOO

Summary: Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INH

Summary: A film about Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history. Paralleling Assange's rise and fall with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the troubled young soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, the film discusses transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE

Summary: Explores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HID

Summary: A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AMA

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AMA

Summary: Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVE

Di Palma, Carlo

Summary: Explores the life and career of Italian cinematographer Carlo Di Palma.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAT

Summary: In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? Subject reveals the unintended consequences good, bad, and complicated of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries, The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of An Inconvenient Truth, Cameraperson, MLK/FBI, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Moore, Alan

Summary: Documents the life and career of comic book author Alan Moore.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIN

Summary: "A Dangerous Game is the explosive documentary from filmmaker and investigative journalist Anthony Baxter (You've Been Trumped), which examines the eco-impact of luxury golf resorts around the world. Featuring exclusive interviews with Alec Baldwin, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump, the film takes viewers on a globe-spanning journey to a World Heritage site in Croatia; the extravagant desert...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DAN

Summary: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARM

Summary: Malcolm Gladwell leads a documentary about self-driving vehicles, asking: what is control and what happens when it is relinquished to machines?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AUT

Summary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAW

Summary: Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEA

Summary: "...A meditative exploration of silence and the impact of noise on our lives....takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe--from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city in on the planet--and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IN

Summary: Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker Bob Weide, who set out to document it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KUR

Summary: A hardworking Maltese fisherman, struggling to provide for his family amidst strict regulations imposed on his traditional family business by the European Union, enters Malta's fishing underworld.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUZ