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Biographical television programs Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Physicians as authors Sacks, Oliver 1933-2015 Sex assigned at birth Television mini-series Video recordings for people with visual disabilities Video recordings for the hearing impaired Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives Vidéos pour personnes handicapées visuellesFilter By Series
Ken Burns' American livesSummary: The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and her early tragic death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After Julian Leyzaola Perez declared open war on the drug cartels, murder rates dropped, but outrage spilled over regarding human rights abuses committed by the police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEXSummary: Follow Dr. Anthony Fauci as he grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and his 50-year career as the Nation's leading public health advocate. Witness a rarely seen side of the physician, husband, and father as he confronts political backlash, a new administration, and questions of the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLISummary: In Egypt's Sahara Desert, there is a fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the Valley of the Whales. Among the skeletons, paleontologists have found a species of ancient whale with four legs that allowed it to walk on land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023