Summary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLSummary: Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD TEACopies Available at Woodmere
6 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUHawking, Stephen
Summary: Explores the concept of progress in modern society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SURSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRIBaxter, Anthony
Summary: Documents the efforts of a group of Scottish landowners to thwart Donald Trump's plans to buy an unspoiled area in northeastern Scotland to build two state-of-the-art golf courses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOU
Summary: It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROL
Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TONSummary: The unlikely story of Build-A-Bear Workshop, the experiential teddy bear phenomenon that took the world by storm. Stuffed with heartfelt testimonials, expert analysis, and even a teddy bear heist, the film chronicles the company's history, its seamless integration into pop culture, and its growth alongside ever-changing landscapes over the course of 25 years. It stars Pete Holmes, Jon Lovitz,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNSSummary: A powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Having been born and raised in one of the USA's most oil-producing regions, Josh Tickell saw firsthand how the industry controls, deceives, and damages the country, its people, and the environment, and after one too many people he know became sick, he knew he just couldn't idly stand by any longer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FUESummary: A group of residents of Meredith, NY discover the impacts that a 400-foot high windmill could bring to their community, but become divided over how they see wind power affecting the future of the community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 621.45 WindfallCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WINSummary: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOWSummary: It has been called 'the most audacious, difficult, complicated rescue mission ever attempted.' This account uniquely blends emotion and bravado to tell the incredible tale of America's secret mission to free the hostages of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DESSummary: It follows the Navajo heavy metal band I Don't Konform's remarkable journey from performing on poverty-stricken reservations to recording their debut album with Grammy-award winner producer of Metallica while telling the compelling story of the thriving heavy metal scene on the Navajo reservations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC REZSummary: "Marion Stokes was secretly recording American television 24 hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four-hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012, while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away. In between, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RECHansard, Glen
Summary: Follows musical group Swell Season over the course of three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SWESummary: Documentary film sharing the efforts of two American organizations providing medical aid after the catastrophic 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Project Medishare, which set up clinics for victims, and the Knights of Columbus, which provided prosthetic limbs for the many young people who suffered amputations. The film also follows a small group of earthquake victims who form Team Zaryen, an amputee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNBSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILSummary: Bruce Brown and filmmaker son, Dana, have created an all new classic, featuring never-before-seen footage from "The endless summer" and other films. Embark on a journey of adventure, discovery, and the incredible challenge of facing a fifteen foot wall of water as the sport's greatest surfers look back on the thrills, the spills, and the movie that uniquely embraced the lifelong search for that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDSummary: Told through the eyes and hands of acclaimed artists across the world, the film explores the surprising world of taxidermy, where sculptors must also be scientists. From a studio in Los Angeles that has elevated taxidermy to the forefront of fashion to fine artists in the Netherlands, these passionate experts push creative boundaries while revealing the importance of preserving nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STUSummary: Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Entertainment 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OUTSummary: "Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopia was born in Germany. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. Bauhaus constituted one of the most significant contributions to everyday 20th-century culture and influential contemporary designs, and it was never just an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2018