Summary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: A unique glimpse at more than fifty years of American history. Educator, civil rights champion, advisor to presidents, envoy to popes, theologian and activist, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh was called on by countless world leaders to tackle the most challenging issues of the day. He built a reputation as a savvy political operator with a penchant for bridging the divide between bitter enemies. Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HESSummary: "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: 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
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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: It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects. The film vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INGSummary: Examines Trotsky, the revolutionary, venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leon Trotsky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TROSummary: What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BOM
Summary: 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: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018