Summary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008

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

Summary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Smith, Jack

Summary: A collection of avant garde films preserved by the Library of Congress.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TRE

Summary: "India is at the leading edge of agricultural technologies. However, the truth for Indian farmers is nothing like the shiny biotech promise. Modern industrial agriculture, with its reliance on pesticides, fungicides and herbicides, has destroyed topsoil. Water tables have dropped, biotech seeds are failing and farmer suicides are at an all-time high. There is a solution: Peter Proctor is New...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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

Summary: The broadcast comes 50 years to the month after The Dave Clark Five's first US single peaked on the Billboard charts. 'Glad All Over' had already knocked the Beatles out of the number one position on the UK charts. Following The Beatles' triumphant appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, The Dave Clark Five were actually the first 'British Invasion' band to make a concert tour in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DAV

Summary: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death), forced her to dance for his amusement. This dance saved her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Lorentzen, Luke

Summary: Follows a Mexican family who runs a private ambulance company in Mexico City, where the government provides fewer than forty-five emergency ambulances for a population of nine million, examining the struggles and challenges that operating in this cutthroat industry involves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2020

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

Malak, Jonah

Summary: Follows Don Shirley and David Shaw, two high level scuba-divers, as they prepare for and execute a fateful dive in Boesmansgat cave in South Africa to retrieve the body of another diver.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020

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

Summary: In 2006, Mitt Romney decides to run for president of the United States. In the days before the 2008 presidential election, he seeks to win debates against John McCain and the other Republican Party presidential candidates. After he loses the Republican nomination, he returns in 2012 to challenge incumbent Barack Obama for the White House. Meanwhile, his wife is diagnosed with multiple...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Dise, Robert L.

Summary: (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 ANC
Call number: DVD 930 ANC

Summary: Project Recover, a small team of accomplished scientists, historians, and military veterans, scour the depths of the ocean and the farthest corners of the earth, to search for and recover the remains of the more than 80,000 Americans who have been missing in action since World War II. They aim to deliver closure, solace, and kinship to MIA families who have gone generations without answers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Duane, Kelly

Summary: Examines the case of two twenty-something friends from Texas who were arrested on domestic terrorism charges after protesting at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog Films 2012

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

Summary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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

Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009

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

Summary: An intimate look into the life and work of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: A documentary examining opposing cultural movements in India (tradition vs. modernism), contrasting the experiences and attitudes of contestants in the Miss India beauty contest with those of participants at a Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2013

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

Summary: Two raging grannies on their mobility scooters travel from Seattle to Wall Street on a quest to find out whether perpetual economic growth is possible. Shirley (90) and Hinda (84) grew up during the great depression. This is a film searching for new answers, but also a film about friendship, coming of age, illness and fear of death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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