Summary: A documentary film that interviews American pilots who became prisoners of war in Vietnam and shows footage of the prison camps and captured prisoners.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2001

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

Summary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010

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

Summary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014

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

Summary: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: It's the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. The rules of the game and of engagement have fundamentally changed. Today drone strikes, night raids, and U.S. government targeted killings occur in corners across the globe, killing untold numbers of civilians. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012

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

Summary: Follows seven homeless youth in and around Union Square as they live with addition to heroin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Film Network 2004

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

Summary: A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2012

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

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: Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: The story of an experiment -- "to see if Blacks had the intellectual and physical ability to fly an aircraft in combat." These pilots, trained in the "deep South," became the Tuskegee Airmen, flying combat aircraft during World War II for their country. They had to battle on 2 fronts: the Axis powers in Europe and North Africa, and the racism at home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004

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

Summary: Just outside of Dallas, Texas a violent haunted house is serving as the pulpit for a modern-day fire and brimstone sermon. Taking the viewer behind the scenes, this documentary examines why this small town church has resorted to such graphic means of saving souls and allows us a brief glimpse of what they believe they're saving us from.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Plexifilm 2003

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

Summary: "RFK, a new biography of Robert Kennedy ... takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A look into the Source Family cult, its spiritual leader, Father Yod, and 1970s California, told through home movies and photographs from Source Family archivist Isis Aquarian and accompanied by original Source Family music.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City, Inc. 2013

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

Summary: "An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Life According to Sam follows one family's courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal aging disease. Directed by Oscar winners Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine (Inocente), this highly personal and life-affirming journey is propelled by the captivating presence of Sam Berns. Funny, perceptive and fiercely intelligent,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Hirsch, Lee

Summary: Follows high school students over the course of a school year as they are bullied by their peers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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

Summary: "A landmark documentary ... Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door slesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001

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

Galinsky, Michael

Summary: A man leads a movement against the development of a professional basketball arena to try and save his home and community from being demolished.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2013

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

Summary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011

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

Corben, Billy

Summary: Explores the rise and fall of nightclub owner Peter Gatien and the clubs he operated in New York City.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001

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