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Beale, Edith Bouvier d. 1977 Competition (Psychology) High school students United States Interpersonal relations Middle school students United States Mothers and daughters New York (State) East Hampton Biography Pacifists Recluses New York (State) East Hampton Biography School children United States Spelling bees United StatesSummary: When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? Follow former enemy combatants, Israeli soldiers from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison, who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say enough. The film reveals their transformational journeys from soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DISSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004