Summary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTSummary: Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It was meant and received as an indictment of the British class system, which seemed most inflexible in 1964. Almost as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granada Television Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Restaurant kitchens are a pressurized stew of brutal hours and high stress. Acting out goes with the territory and anyone is fair game. But the familiar macho posturing of celebrity chefs has reached a tipping point. Now with an influx of women at the helm of restaurants, and a younger generation unwilling to submit to the brutal conditions once considered the norm, the rules of "kitchen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINSummary: Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CORSummary: "The Ventures have been thrilling music lovers with songs like 'Wipe Out' and 'Hawaii 5-0' since 1959. Now, see the story of the world's most famous instrumental rock and roll band from those who know them the best: movie stars, music legends, and their family. Witness the rise and influence of the electric guitar, the history, and the relevance of the band in pop culture still today." -- Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VENSummary: Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXISummary: The film traces the phenomenon of othering in America, how marginalized groups of people are mistreated in a nation that allegedly cares about justice and equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A comprehensive retrospective of the action film genre over the past 50 years, from the earliest westerns to the contemporary movies of today. Features interviews with directors, screenwriters, actors, film critics and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSummary: Explores how one contestant became adept at recording and memorizing prices of products featured on the show since its inception in 1972, culminating in him helping a contestant place a perfect bid during a 2008 Showcase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: An intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Jordan Peterson, the academic and best-selling author who captured the world's attention with his criticisms of political correctness and life-changing philosophy on finding personal meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RISSummary: Five friends travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes and canoes to explore the potential impacts of a border wall on the natural environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIVSummary: An in-depth look at the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The film gives a voice to current corrections officers whose lives have been impacted by the fallout and cannot speak to media, per state law. Including interviews with retired officers, state officials, and local law enforcement, the film explores circumstances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: Dramatic, moving and insightful, this documentary tells the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in rural Ohio, through aerial combat in Korea, to his first steps on the Moon, and the unwanted celebrity status that ensued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARMSummary: One man's journey to find meaning in Bill Murray's many unexpected adventures with everyday people. Enjoy an inside look at rare and never-before-seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BILSummary: Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved, but dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2017
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CALSummary: The remarkable story of Elian Gonzalez, a five year old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his future changed the course of US Cuban relations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELISummary: Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want people to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat, and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all good intentions, they go on getting fatter and fatter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC FaSummary: A revolution is taking place in the art world and it isn't happening in Paris, Berlin or Hong Kong, but in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ArtPrize is the most highly attended art show in the world, and it awards cash prizes larger than all other competitions combined. International critics and enormous crowds pack bars, galleries and abandoned buildings all over town, taking in over 1,500 works from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018