Summary: Using 'shock therapy' as a metaphor, the film investigates Naomi Klein's central idea of 'disaster capitalism.' When countries are jolted by catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters, they are often subjected to totally unregulated 'free market' remedies that benefit corporations at public expense.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim, Inc. 2011

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

Summary: Live performances by comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and Ron White.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2004

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BLU

Summary: Embark on a month-long expedition to explore stunning coral reefs, shallow water environments, and rare species in America's newest marine sanctuary, Papahanamokuakea Marine National Monument.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.69 HID

Summary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: A collection of three dances choreographed by Martha Graham and performed by her company.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Summary: After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) pieced together a narrative of Gray's life to create the documentary And Everything is Going Fine. Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one-man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010

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

Summary: The movies, the magic, the memories, the greatest moments, the brightest stars. The incomparable Golden Era of MGM musicals shines in this compilation of music and dance performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THA

Bausch, Pina

Summary: Tribute to German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch as members of her dance troupe, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, perform her pieces in various settings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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

Germi, Pietro

Summary: A man bed hops from woman to woman until his philandering catches up with him when he impregnates his fiancée's younger sister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SED