Summary: An in-depth look at the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The film gives a voice to current corrections officers whose lives have been impacted by the fallout and cannot speak to media, per state law. Including interviews with retired officers, state officials, and local law enforcement, the film explores circumstances...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: A look at Martin Margiela, the fashion world's answer to Banksy, an elusive and enigmatic designer whose revolutionary creations changed the face of fashion while remaining completely anonymous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC MARSummary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: A Saint Petersburg official wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared from his face and has assumed a life of its own, pretending to be human.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VAI 2010
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA NOSSummary: Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare Pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEZ1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PEZ
Summary: It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STASummary: Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world, holding a 2018 Nobel Prize for discovering the role of the immune system in defeating cancer. But for decades, he waged a lonely war against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma. This is the astounding true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man's visionary quest to find a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIMSummary: "Explore the legally treacherous terrain of white collar crime under the guidance of an acclaimed law school professor."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0268 WHICall number: DVD 345.0268 WHI
Summary: Learn from one of the modern watercolour greats, this DVD takes the form of a workshop where Shirley Trevena explores some of her completed paintings as well as teaches the techniques used to achieve them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Catalyst Productions [distributor] 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.42 BRESummary: In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary, and tied him to a bed to 'deprogram' his religious beliefs-by having nonstop sex with him. Director Errol Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TABSummary: Presents 24 calculus lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 515 CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 1 20061 available in Adult, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 2 2006
Summary: "THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BLASummary: An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.09 PHYSummary: "Sinatra: all or nothing at all is an up-close and personal examination of the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra's life together with rarely seen footage of Sinatra's famous 1971 'Retirement' Concert in Los Angeles....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SINSummary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANSimonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of California. Includes wine list and map of California wine country on container sheet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVESummary: At a time when the free press is under threat, OBIT. takes a rare look inside one of the United States' foremost journalistic institutions, The New York Times. The steadfast writers of the paper's Obituaries section approach their work with journalistic rigor and narrative flair, each day depositing the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory. Going beyond the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OBIZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDSummary: A cinematic reverie on the beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places on the planet to contemplate its splendor. The film drifts between science and spirituality, the arid land, desert shores, and lush galaxies, expanding the imagination. From astrophysicists to the desert dwellers, all share their evocative visions of the stars and planets,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CIESummary: An unconventional work in every way, the Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere. It shuttles viewers from one vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology. -- adapted from container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QATSummary: "I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009