Summary: Experience the wild and wonderful untold story of 'Ozploitation' films as you take a journey through the Australian genre cinema of the late '70s and '80s - the years when Australia got into gear and blew the world away with what they had to offer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTSummary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTSummary: From the first smartphones to social media, eBay to emojis, the ideas that dominate lives were born at a 1989 tech startup never heard of. It is a tale of how a great vision and an epic failure changed the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GENSummary: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. A extraordinary documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the island's 'Adam and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GALSummary: Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Explores the life, work, and performance style of writer William S. Burroughs through a series of readings in Scandinavia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Microcinema 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WORSummary: Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FINSummary: "Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story chronicles the life and times of the legendary filmmaker who, through his annual ski films and national tours which began in the early 1950's, was a driving force in the development and promotion of the ski industry in America and throughout the world. Miller, who died in 2018 at the age of 93 while the documentary was still in production, sat with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the surfaces of those who visited her Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BSummary: 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: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows designer-activist Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IFSummary: The world's greatest drummers reflect on the art of drumming and how it has shaped their lives. Features interviews with Ringo Starr from The Beatles, Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters, Stewart Copeland from The Police, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann from Grateful Dead, Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LETSummary: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPSummary: Looks at the mystique surrounding chef and restaurateur Georges Perrier at the time leading up to the closing of his iconic Philadelphia restaurant Le Bec-Fin, which in Perrier's own estimation was the last true French restaurant in the U.S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KINSummary: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other esteemed cast members across all eight Harry Potter films as they travel back to Hogwarts for the first time to celebrate the anniversary of the franchise's first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which premiered twenty years ago. The retrospective special will tell an enchanting making-of story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARSummary: "[F]ilmmaker Arnon Goldfinger travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of his recently-deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. ... Goldfinger begins an unsettling journey into his family's history ... and discovers that knowing the truth can be a terrible burden. ... The Flat is a real-life suspense story about how the past can return to haunt the present."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLASummary: Documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after forty-eight years, sold his home, the 36,000 square-foot, 100-year-old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as "The Bank." Through the intimate lens of noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes, the viewer is taken on a remarkable journey through Maisel's life as an artist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JAYSummary: Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, the March For Our Lives movement included Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Samantha Fuentes, gun violence survivors, and teenage activists who pulled together the largest youth protest in American history. Their movement went global with rallies on six continents and in over 700 cities in every state across the nation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC USSummary: Gates of Heaven: uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry. Vernon, Florida: travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GATSummary: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015