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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONENelson, Erik
Summary: Surviving Eighth Air Force veterans recall their experience during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Run out of Germany by the Nazis, a small contingent of German Jewish intellectuals exacted the perfect revenge - returning to Europe as U.S. soldiers to defeat the enemy ... The never-before-told tale of a handful of German nationals who used their language and cultural knowledge to wage psychological warfare against the Nazis and liberate Europe"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RITSummary: During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWSummary: From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate portrait of one man's personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HELSummary: Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DEFSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: A unique glimpse at more than fifty years of American history. Educator, civil rights champion, advisor to presidents, envoy to popes, theologian and activist, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh was called on by countless world leaders to tackle the most challenging issues of the day. He built a reputation as a savvy political operator with a penchant for bridging the divide between bitter enemies. Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HESSummary: National Geographic follows Pete Souza, the President's photographer inside the Obama White House, aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Features intimate interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESummary: Tells the untold story of Tour de France cycling champion Gino Bartali and other courageous Italians who risked their lives to rescue Jews, partisans and other refugees in Nazi-occupied Italy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENSummary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TENSummary: The fifteen year realization of a cinematic dream that presents the profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world's problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DALSummary: Story of Joe E. Bussard Jr, whose lifelong mission is to rescue America's roots music from oblivion: musician, broadcaster and obsessive long-time collector of 1920s and 30s American music on original 78 rpm records.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The powerful documentary examines the life of Muhammad Ali beyond the boxing ring to offer a personal perspective on the American sporting legend. Investigating Ali's spiritual transformation includes his conversion to Islam, resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and humanitarian work. The documentary connects Ali's transcendent life story to America' struggles with race, religion, and war in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRISummary: This four pack for fans of dramatic films about the World War II era includes The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank, Surviving Hitler: A Love Story, Hidden in Silence, and The Little Riders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside of Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Despite conducting one of the most thorough investigations in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NINSummary: Documents the discovery of film footage of the Warsaw Ghetto, found after World War II, that was shot by the Nazis to use as war propaganda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: An overview of the life of His Holiness, the 15th Dalai Lama with an explanation of how Tibetan Buddhism is both a religion and a "science of the mind." The Dalai Lama shares his crystallized understanding of the nature of mind, and its part in the creation and alleviation of all of our suffering. He discusses how the first step in dealing with emotions is to recognize the patterns, triggers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASKunstler, William
Summary: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler examine the life of their late father, radical civil rights lawyer William Kunstler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2010