Summary: Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world, holding a 2018 Nobel Prize for discovering the role of the immune system in defeating cancer. But for decades, he waged a lonely war against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma. This is the astounding true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man's visionary quest to find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIMSummary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents documentary footage from the journey of André Gide and Marc Allégret to the Congo in French Equatorial Africa in 1925 with footage showing the lives, culture, and built environments of various groups in the region including the Baya, Sara, and Fula.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: Plunges into the underbelly of rock 'n' roll, unearthing an amazing true tale of success, self destruction, friendship, and the ultimate rivalry between two up-and-coming bands: Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DIGSummary: In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COLSummary: 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: 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: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRSummary: Ye Haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the Chinese government. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. She travels to Hainan Province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementary-age school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOOSummary: This film reveals the untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FANSummary: In the early seventies, the world was watching as Chile democratically elected Socialist leader Salvador Allende. His political ideals and aspirations, among them, providing education for all children and distributing land to the nation₂s workers, terrified the country₂s right-wing, as well as the U.S., who helped orchestrate a military coup that replaced him with dictator Augusto Pinochet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SANSummary: Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare Pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEZ1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PEZ
Summary: Pink ribbons, the symbol of the breast cancer prevention movement, are everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums - the list goes on and on. They make people feel good, as if engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? More and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Wouldn't it be something if some of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINSummary: Be astounded by the fifth largest country in the world, from the lost world of Amazonia, to the buzzing cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, a city of 30 million, where the super rich commute by helicopter. Meet remote tribes who pit their survival skills against gold diggers and loggers. In the entertaining company of good-natured host Michael Palin, delight in the spectacular landscape,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918 BRASummary: Celebrate 50 years of female excellence in sports through the eyes of athletes who changed the system. Hosted by tennis legend and activist Billie Jean King, the film weaves together stories of eight icons to discuss how their own struggles and achievements shaped women's sports.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Calgarian Robert Cohen moved to L.A. to pursue his dreams of becoming a comedy writer, he quickly realized that his new friends and colleagues knew nothing but the usual stereotypes about his beloved homeland. After years of frustration, Robert decided to embark on a personal quest, traveling from one end of Canada to the other, to prove Being Canadian is more than just maple syrup and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BEISummary: Documented is the story of family farms who were providing healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop by agents of misguided government bureaucracies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: The film brings Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. A film composer is a musical scientist of sorts, and the influence they have to complement a film and garner powerful reactions from global audiences can be a daunting task to take on. Includes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SCOSummary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANSummary: In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous People are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OYASummary: Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004