Summary: " ... A time capsule of Paris and New York between 1969 and 1973 as viewed through the eyes of Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the dominant fashion illustrator of the time. Counted among Antonio's discoveries (muses of the period) were iconic beauties such as Grace Jones, Jessica Lange, and Jerry Hall, as well as Warhol's Superstars Donna Jordan, Jane Forth and Patti D'Arbanville. Antonio's inner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC CRUSummary: Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Briarcliff Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAHSummary: The Shining, Carrie, It, Misery, Stand By Me; more than 60 of Stephen King's novels have been adapted into films. King on Screen pulls back the curtain and offers an intimate sit down with the filmmakers who brought King's stories to life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC KINSummary: "In a little town in upstate New York, a close-knit family struggles over many decades to hold onto a small dairy farm. With extraordinary candor and heartbreaking intimacy, this poignant documentary brings to light the true story of an American family: their hopes and dreams, their triumphs over tragedy, the modern conflicts that divide them and the love that binds them together. At the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Morninglight Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLYSummary: Examines the circumstances surrounding the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRSummary: Takes a behind-the-scenes look at the colorful and competitive world of champion show chicken breeders, following the struggles and triumphs of both humans and their chickens on the road to compete at the largest poultry competition in the United States, the Ohio National Poultry Show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. An exhilarating game of no-holds-barred competition and brutal domination of opponents, it's a celebration of greed and accumulation of wealth with only one player standing at the end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RUTBaxter, Anthony
Summary: Documents the efforts of a group of Scottish landowners to thwart Donald Trump's plans to buy an unspoiled area in northeastern Scotland to build two state-of-the-art golf courses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOU
Summary: "The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. Horrifying and hilarious, this satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election reveals a fake news empire and the tactics of information warfare"--container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OURSummary: pt.1. After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. Includes the marathon, men's diving, and American track star Jesse Owen's sprint races at the 1936 Olympic games. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLYSummary: Through the lens of auteur Peter Jackson, anything can become magical. Although the First World War took place a century ago, Jackson's determination has brought it back to life once again. With brilliant cinematic techniques, as well as an appreciation for those who fought these unbelievably difficult battles, Jackson brings this forgotten world into bold relief. His extraordinary talent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC THECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc ThSummary: "Take a trip with Sonic Youth and Nirvana as they stumble through their 1991 European club & festival tour! Let filmmaker Dave Markey put you on stage, off stage and backstage! Witness the boredom! The cynicism! And rock harder than you may ever have rocked before!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen Records 2011
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NINSummary: "What do real estate tycoon Donald Trump and the Heinz Tomato Ketchup dynasty have in common? Their ancestors come from Kallstadt, a small, quiet winegrowing village in the German Palatinate region. This powerful entrepreneurial spirit must be part of the genetic make-up! Director Simone Wendel-also from Kallstadt-explores the issue in depth."--IMDB.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KINKastner, Jamie
Summary: When musician Kevin Hearn questions the authenticity of piece of art he bought, he sets out to uncover the truth behind the possible forgery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013