Summary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWSummary: Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERSummary: Germany's Third Reich made 1,200 feature films. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. More than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Moeller shows how contentious these films...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: "German painter Gerhard Richter granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009, where he was working on a series of large abstract paintings. In quiet, highly concentrated images, the documentary provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the very personal, tension-filled process of artistic creation. Richter is his own worst critic, destroying multiple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERSummary: At the heart of this film is the question of whether Leni Riefenstahl was a Nazi, as her detractors claim, or whether she was the victim of society-- a naive, young woman who made Triumph des Willens on assignment, and simply did a very good job. This film does not judge, and Riefenstahl (a fiesty 90 during production) is genuine in her protest. Or has the passage of 50-plus years simply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WONSummary: Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. Millions across occupied Europe saw his films, the most infamous of which was the horrific anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Suss, which was required viewing for all SS members. Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes. Included are never-before-seen archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HARSummary: Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, many of whom were interred in concentration camps during World War II because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175, which states: An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights may also be imposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PARBausch, Pina
Summary: Tribute to German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch as members of her dance troupe, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, perform her pieces in various settings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINSummary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: Documents relatives of high-ranking SS and Nazi party members, describing the struggles they face trying to cope with the crimes of their ancestors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: 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.
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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: A film about Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history. Paralleling Assange's rise and fall with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the troubled young soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, the film discusses transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: "A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era." -- back of container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLYSummary: This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport. Told with actual video shot during the crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDSummary: "The True Cost is a groundbreaking new documentary film that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks us each to consider, who pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums and features interviews with the world's leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth, Vandana Shiva and many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUDanquart, Pepe.
Summary: Follows speed climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber as they attempt to break the record for scaling "The Nose" rockface of El Capitan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2008