Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEAGaby, Elena
Summary: Explores the use of implantable technology in the human brain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRALayton, Bart
Summary: A young Frenchman convinces a Texas family that he is their teenage son who has been missing for three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPSummary: With the birth of his first child, Independent filmmaker Darren Doane picked up his camera and began documenting the process of becoming a family. Ten years in the making, the result is a profound and entertaining documentary for the entire family. From mud puddles and family road trips, to backyard parties and the birth of their third child in the front seat of their truck, Doane captures all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THESummary: Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD 921 BaezCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOSummary: "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: Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in, a new four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NOWSummary: In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali, imposing one of the harshest interpretations of sharia law, and crucially for Mali, banning music. Radio stations destroyed, instruments burned and overnight, Mali's musicians were forced into hiding or exile where many remain even now. Follow Mali's musicians as they fight to keep music alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: In March 1940, a journey taken by John Steinbeck and his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, down the coast of California, expanded from a trip meant to document the creatures that inhabit the shallow water and tide pools on the margins of the Sea of Cortez into a large philosophical exploration of mankind's relationship to the natural world. This documentary considers how that journey can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOUSummary: Documentary film chronicling Richard Stanley's tenure as writer/director of the 1996 adaptation of H.G. Wells' The island of Dr. Moreau as well as the start of the film's production.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOSBell, Christopher
Summary: Explores the use of kratom as a painkiller and possible alternative to today's opioids.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LEASummary: "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LASKashmere Stage Band
Contents: disc 1. Boss City-- Burning spear-- Take five -- Super bad -- Keep doing it -- Thunder soul -- Do you dig it, man? -- Headwiggle -- Do your thing ; Scorpio ; Thank you (previously unissued extended versions) -- Al's tune -- All praises -- Shaft -- Kashmere -- $$ kash register $$ -- Zero point : parts 1 & 2 (45 version, previously unreleased) -- Getting it out of my system --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROL