Summary: " ... the first documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. The film takes a deeper look at how humanity is reacting to the most profound environmental change the planet has ever seen. Two billion years ago life first appeared on earth, a planet bathed in a natural electromagnetic frequency. As life slowly evolved from simple to complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RESSummary: Using extraordinary and rarely seen archival footage, director Robert Stone brings to light the largely untold story of Bikini Atoll. A peaceful, tropical island in the Pacific, it was the sight of a series of atomic bomb tests in 1946.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RADSummary: "Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEM
Summary: "In 2011 The World health Organization stated, 'The electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as possibly carcinogenic to humans.' The cell phone industry has vigorously disputed these findings."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOBSummary: An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows those amazing individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ENCSummary: "An Apology to Elephants explores the beauty and intelligence of elephants as well as threats to their survival. Focusing on the lives of elephants in captivity, the documentary tells the troubling story of what happens to elephants in the name of entertainment. An Apology to Elephants is an eye-opening film about the exploitation of elephants. It features beautiful footage from nature...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC APOSummary: A transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature's own prisms of symmetry and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAGSummary: Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Filmed across the U.S., in Europe, Australia, and Asia, examine the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and Mother Earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers indicate alternative reasons for this tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VANSummary: Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOSummary: Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAMSummary: Cuba's unspoiled tropical terrain, closed for decades by a U.S. trade embargo, escaped the commercialization of its Caribbean island neighbors. A title wave of hotels, asphalt, and pollution may be just ahead, if tourism experts are right. Look inside the long-closed paradise to see what the future holds for Cuba's unusual species of amphibians, reptiles, and fresh water fish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2010