Summary: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOWSummary: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOWSummary: Features an exhilarating look under the sea through the eyes of those that live there. Incredible state-of-the-art-underwater filmmaking will take viewers breath away as they migrate with whales, swim alongside a great white shark, and race with dolphins at play. Includes first-ever images of elusive deepwater creatures, featurettes, music video, filmmaker annotations, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OCECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NonFic OCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OCE RATED NRSummary: Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11, and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward a ruthless agenda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD FAHSummary: Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on the how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SICSummary: Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPSummary: "Director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can't gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Non-Fic GSummary: A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROGSummary: A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantánamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROASummary: 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 SHOSummary: A multitude of family snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments are used to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, overdoses on her lithium medication. He is shot back into his real and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TARArtist Not Provided
Summary: Veterans of the Vietnam War provide first-hand accounts of their experiences as their stories are told using archival film footage, audio recordings, and personal photos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Plexifilm 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HELSummary: Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, who was a small-time imposter. Bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LETArtist Not Provided
Summary: Follows five bands performing Gypsy music for six weeks across North America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GYPArtist Not Provided
Summary: Profiles three "violence interrupters" who work to protect their Chicago communities by intervening in disputes before they become violent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTSummary: The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. When they engineer an announcement that Dow will clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe, Dow's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YESLayton, Bart
Summary: A young Frenchman convinces a Texas family that he is their teenage son who has been missing for three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPSummary: For 18 months, award-winning director Scott Hicks followed the legendary composer Philip Glass across three continents, creating a remarkable portrait of one of the greatest artists of all time. Allowed unprecedented access to Glass's working process and long time collaborators, Hicks provides a unique glimpse into the composer's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GLASummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Summary: As animators, puppeteers, designers, writers, or directors, Philadelphia natives and identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are renowned for artisanal methods and unusual sources of inspiration. Described as 'Kafkaesque' or 'post-apocalyptically Bruegelian' their films are inspired by twentieth-century European visual and literary culture, especially the surrealist and expressionist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2000
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE BROSummary: The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, the celebration is still racially segregated. Go into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, the director traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry. From the crowns, the gowns, the surreal masks, to the enormous paper mache...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2009