Summary: A shocking and outlandish year-in-the-life documentary about the White Family of Boone County, West Virginia's most notorious extended family, with shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing and using, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing. Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family glorifies their criminal behavior and lives an existence more like something from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2010

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

Summary: Director Patricio Guzman travels to the driest place on earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2011

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

Summary: A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions. Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter travels to France, California, Italy and New York, speaking with winemakers both large and small. The film offers a look at how business concerns and the homogenization of tastes around the world are changing the way wine is being made. Nossiter's primary focus is on American vintners...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed exclusively by THINKFilm 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MON
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED PG-13

Summary: The incredible story of thousands of Jews and their dramatic escape from the Nazis to China during World War II. Narrated by Martin Landau.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2004

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

Summary: In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands, even millions of dollars, from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. The secret behind Tupperware's success: the women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds who discovered they could move up in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUP

Summary: A closeup view of today's far right movement that reveals the workings of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the Aryan Nations, and David Duke.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLO

Summary: The epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Kevin Pearce and Shaun White is documented in this exhilarating ride into the world of extreme snowboarding. With both practicing more and more breathtaking and dangerous tricks leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, everything suddenly changes for Kevin when a horrific crash leaves him fighting for his life. When he recovers, all he wants to do...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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

Summary: "In 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney shot classmate Larry King at point blank range. Unraveling this tragedy from point of impact, the film reveals the heartbreaking circumstances that led to the shocking crime as well as the aftermath"--Movie Web site.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shapeshifter 2013

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

Summary: Go inside and meet the dedicated men and women who are sworn to protect the President at any cost. Get an agent's-eye view of the daily challenges faced through the decades by Secret Service veterans, from keeping tabs on the president's children to dealing with the privacy of the First Family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INS

Summary: Highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrongdoing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. Includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayland Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAR

Summary: Follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy of France through the course of a full year, and delves into the cultural and creative process of making wine, as well as its deep ties to the land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013

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

Summary: A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EAR RATED NR

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EAR

Summary: A discussion on the keeping of intelligent creatures in captivity. Employs the story of Tilikum, the notorious performing whale who, unlike orcas in the wild, has taken the lives of several people while in captivity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc TCCF Bla

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLA

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLA

Summary: The surreal and shocking world of the controversial cult leader Reverend Fred Phelps and his hate group. Includes interviews and rare Phelps footage and allows viewers to reexamine the quintessentially American right of free speech.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008

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

Summary: Blending state-of-the-art digital graphics with real footage, Ocean Odyssey is a breathtaking underwater adventure that fully immerses you in the beauty and dangers of the deep.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OCE

Summary: Examines the role of two-spirit people in the Navajo culture in the context of the story of a gay youth named Fred Martinez. Martinez was a nádleehí or a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, who was murdered in a hate crime at the age of sixteen. Discusses the traditional Native American perspective on gender and sexuality and the need for a balanced interrelationship between the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Riding the Tiger Productions, LLC 2010

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO

Summary: A biography of Emmett Louis Till, an African-American teenager who was murdered for whistling at a white women in Mississippi in 1955. Chronicles director Beauchamp's decade-long effort to determine the true identities of Till's killers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2005

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

Summary: Looks at the risks to the food chain and environment through pollution of our air, land, and sea by waste.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Blenheim Films 2013

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

Summary: Using empty beer cans, old tires, plastic bottles and other garbage, iconoclastic architect Michael Reynolds, based in New Mexico, has been building ecologically sustainable structures for 35 years. Calling his structures "earthships," Reynolds has had conflicts with government officials over inflexible zoning and housing laws, but his architectural ideas were put to use in the Andaman Islands...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Morningstar Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: "Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002

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

Summary: This definitive documentary exploration of the novel, The Da Vinci Code, rounds up all the key players in the field to talk about key topics in the novel. Features stunning original photography from Paris, London, Scotland and France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004

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

Summary: A searing indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Wolfe Video 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EIG

Summary: A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MUR