Summary: An interrogation of the culture's fascination with Hitler and Nazism is set against the backdrop of the current rise of white supremacy, the normalization of anti-Semitism and the weaponization of history itself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEASummary: Doug Butler is a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer with an offbeat passion for dog mushing. A local folk hero, Doug's ease with cows, dogs, and people is a joy to behold. And when he trains his team of mutts on the family farm with a dream to compete at the world championships in Alaska, his teenage exuberance seems to erase the tired lines on his sixty-five-year-old face.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this thrilling feminist documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry to expose one of the worst cover-ups in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is an award-winning film about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history and its aftermath. It uncovers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RADSummary: A filmmaker follows conceptual artist David Greg Harth during the final year of his quixotic, two-decade quest to fill a Bible with celebrity signatures; an art project that turned into an all-consuming obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BOOSummary: "As iconic a group as has ever existed, The Velvet Underground were so far ahead of their time, musically, visually and culturally, it's as if they were dropped, ready formed, into New York's avant-garde art scene, from a parallel universe. And in addition to their unique imagery, so perfectly designed by maverick artist and impresario Andy Warhol, their experiments with form and sound that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VELSummary: In the Victorian Age, women could not access higher education. Instead, Fuller schools in the hothouse of her father's devotion. She absorbs the classics and learns Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German. Already accomplished authors, Fuller and Emerson shape the transcendentalist musings of Thoreau, Ripley, and Bronson Alcott. As she enters elite salon life, Fuller delivers sheer genius and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLSummary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCOSummary: Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century, exploring Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and a showcase for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while exposing unintended consequences of the sport's integration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023