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Barnes, Leroy 1933- Crimen organizado Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Criminals New York (State) New York Delitos Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Documentary films Drogas Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Drug dealers New York (State) Biography Ecoterrorism United States History Films for the hearing impaired Organized crime New York (State) New YorkSummary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTSummary: The remarkable story of the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat,' told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry weaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IFSummary: This is the true-life story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord. With the first hand testimony of the Godfather himself, Nicky Barnes, who was the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. From humble beginnings, he came to dominate the heroin distribution business. Trusted and trained by the Italians, he set up his own crime family --The Council.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008