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Milestone collectionSummary: Ten of boxing's finest fighters tell what it was like to battle Muhammad Ali, the man many consider to be the best boxer ever. Ali's incomparable journey is recounted through the eyes of those who stepped through the ropes and into history. Join these respected fighters as they weigh in on 'The Greatest' and pay tribute to a living legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FACSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IFSummary: A documentary in which Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison travel through Asia Minor and Iraq to reach a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtyari. They follow the tribe on its forty-eight day trek across deserts, streams, and mountains to reach pasture for their flocks. These three poeple were the first Westerners to cross the Zardeh Kuh Pass and the first to make...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GraBstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV
Summary: Examines non-western medicine, including Tibetan methods of healing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First-Run Features 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KNOSummary: Tells the inspiring story of self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar, who transformed his once-average yard into a wondrous garden. Offers an upbeat message that speaks to respect for both self and others, and shows what one person can achieve.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reaches nation media prominence. Ironically, what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Floor Productions 1999