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Summary: A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 791.34 MAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

FIFE LAKE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fife Lake Township Zoning Board 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 352 FIFE

Summary: In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOU

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Touching 2004

Summary: In this coming of age documentary, four friends on the autism spectrum who have bonded through humor and performed as the comedy troupe "Asperger's Are Us" will prepare for one final, ambitious show before going their separate ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Council, Mimi

Summary: "The author of The Mountain Baker takes her motto-"Desserts for everyone!"-to the next level with these allergy-friendly bakes. One of the most common allergens after dairy and peanuts, eggs are often thought to be a necessity in baking. But what eggs do contribute to your sweets-fat, flavor, structure, fluffiness, moisture-can actually be found in countless alternative ingredients that are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company Independent Publishers since 1923 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56318 COU

Summary: Craig Baldwin presents an energized discourse on copyright infringement, fair use and culture jamming, via a montage of interviews, music and stock footage stemming from the infamous Negativland-U2 case where U2's recording company, Island Records, sued Negativland for releasing a parody. The film also includes interviews with other artists involved in the appropriation of popular media.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SON

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Presents the story of the eugenics movement in the U.S., tracing its evolution from a force for human progress through the study of genetics to an anti-humanistic campaign for state-sponsored sterilization and the closing of the country's borders to peoples believed by some to be genetically inferior.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAC

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame, and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one our generation's most beloved horror icons. A classically trained actor and talented director, Englund has starred in many well-received movies in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth as well as directing his own feature film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC HOL

MICHIGAN GENEALOGICAL COUNCIL

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Stacks, Call number: REF 929.3 GUI

FIXX.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1983

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIX

Summary: The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The award-winning documentary on the lost Memphis powerpop artist, Van Duren. From the ashes of Big Star in Memphis, Duren played in bands with Jody Stephens and Chris Bell, before being led to New Haven by manager Andrew Loog Oldham of the Rolling Stones. Forty years later, two Australians discover his music and on a drunken promise, embark on an amazing journey to make a film about the artist...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WAI

(Robert Altman Film)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC KAN

Michigan Genealogical Council

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1967

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3774 M

Michigan Genealogical Council

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1967

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3774 M

(Mich. Genealogical Council)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3 GUI

MICHIGAN GENEOLOGICAL COUNCIL.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1976

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 929.1 MIC

(MICH. COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 304.6021 POP

Michigan Genealogical Council

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Michigan Genealogical Council] 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774 Western

Summary: Set in a former mining village in Wales, an inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAR
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DAR

Fela

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Kuti

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