Summary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUKaurismaki, Aki
Summary: Finnish musicians the Leningrad Cowboys seek fame and fortune touring America with their manager Vladimir and the village idiot; Vladimir turns into a delusional self-proclaimed prophet, wanting to lead the boys back home; documents the Leningrad Cowboy's Helsinki concert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AKIKingdon, Jessica
Summary: Looks at the social and economic classes in China and explores the pursuit of wealth, progress, and the "Chinese Dream."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film Llc 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ASCSummary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUMisskelley, Jessie
Summary: Further examines the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who were released after nearly twenty years in prison when new DNA evidence supported their innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PARSummary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLESummary: Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AALSummary: Explores the life of Brion Gysin, inventor of a hypnotic light device called the Dreammachine, which was intended to induce hallucinations and transform consciousness. Nik Sheehan interviews some of the '60s counter-culture's most eccentric icons including Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithful and Marcus boon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind. 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLISummary: Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to save the art of Europe during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 943.086 RAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAPSummary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HORSummary: In 2008 Hollywood filmmaker, Jennifer Lynch traveled to India to direct Hisss, a tale about the vengeful snake goddess, Nagin. This documentary captures her experience in the chaotic world of Bollywood-Hollywood filmmaking where "chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DESSummary: A documentary about legendary photographer Bill Cunningham features photographs chosen from over three million previously unpublicized images and documents from the iconic street photographer and fashion historian. Told in Cunningham₂s own words from a 1994 interview, the photographer chronicles moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIMMoore, 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 MINSummary: Contains Paradise lost, the documentary investigating the gruesome 1993 murders of three Arkansas eight-year-olds and the teenagers accused of killing them; and Revelations : Paradise lost 2, which updates the story and delves into the shocking aftermath of the trials.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PARSummary: The audacious murder of Kim Jong-un's brother in a crowded Malaysian airport sparked a worldwide media frenzy. At the center of the investigation are two young women who are either cold-blooded killers or unwitting pawns in a political assassination. Assassins goes beyond the headlines to question every angle of this case, from human trafficking to geopolitical espionage to the secretive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ASSSummary: "A documentary following the life of Lizzie Velasquez, her triumphant journey to the other side of bullying, and her mission to inspire and empower a more positive online environment."--IMDb
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRASummary: A young American woman visits Istanbul, interviewing interesting characters in both popular and out of the way settings, about topics we have all wondered about. The best belly dancer in Turkey, a masseur at a public bath, and one of the richest women in Turkey are among the colorful people interviewed. The interaction with a large cultural cross-section of local people provides a rich...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.6 ISTSummary: An inspirational and emotional journey following one young mountaineer and activist's historic quest to complete the Seven Summits, and to inspire an international community to help suffering "blood brothers and sisters" around the globe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOMSummary: A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia's Oromo and Harari communities, places where one commodity khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life. As if under the influence of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FAYSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HARSummary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOWSummary: A feature documentary that follows the story of Olivia Zinnah, a 7 year old Liberian rape victim who, despite five years of medical treatments and the intervention of the Liberian government, died in 2012 from her injuries. Chronicles the shunning of Olivia and her mother by their family and neighbors for seeking outside help.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014