Summary: The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a controversial and influential political figure. He offers a candid journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers insights into the 1945 fire bombing of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 973.92 FOGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOGSummary: In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. The video tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEASummary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOSummary: "A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIXSummary: "An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Life According to Sam follows one family's courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal aging disease. Directed by Oscar winners Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine (Inocente), this highly personal and life-affirming journey is propelled by the captivating presence of Sam Berns. Funny, perceptive and fiercely intelligent,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFSummary: Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAR
Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas),...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ECHSummary: "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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERSummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVSummary: Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KLASummary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POVSummary: Through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, this documentary is the first to tell the life story of the Greek-American opera soprano completely in her own words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSummary: Chronicles the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, covering the emergence of the National Organization (NOW), as well as more radical factions such as WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell!). Includes new and archival interviews with feminists of that era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMECochran, Ford
Summary: "Discover awe-inspiring natural landscapes and explore the geological histories and mysteries of our national parks with National Geographic."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 557.3 WONCall number: DVD 557.3 WON
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 DAVSummary: "Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MUSSummary: "This ... documentary follows nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe ... on their quests to compete at the international Science and Engineering Fair"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SCIContents: Disc 1. Side A. Her alibi (90 min.) -- Side B. Forget Paris (87 min.) -- Disc 2. Side A. Goodbye girl (103 min.) -- Best friends (109 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007