Summary: Tarantula: an experiment to create a growth formula that could end starvation. Mole people: three scientists stumble upon a tyrannical tribe of albinos who have enslaved a mutant race of mole people. Incredible shrinking man: an ordinary business man is exposed to a radioactive mist and finds his size diminishing .Monolith Monsters: a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLA

Summary: Yes, I Am - The Ric Weiland Story chronicles the LGBTQ pioneer & unknown founder of Microsoft. With his newfound wealth, he turned to philanthropy. During his life, he donated more than $200m to fund more than 60 non-profit organizations. His efforts still have a massive impact today. However, as his wealth grew, Ric seemed to slip further into self-doubt, depression, and a kind of impostor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YES

Summary: "What happens to a documentary filmmaker when he goes up against a large corporation like Dole Foods? How far will Dole go to shift the focus off of them and onto the filmmaker even after their own CEO has admitted wrong doing in a court of law? Media spin, PR scare tactics, dirty tricks, lawsuits, and corporate bullying come into play, but it is the people who ultimately prevail, thus creating...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIG

Summary: Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free. The film is an award-winning underdog story about The Mahoning Drive-in Theater.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2019

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AT

Summary: Cancer is not a laughing matter, but the archaic way people are beating it is. With a dose of good humor, heart, and a touch of rock'n'roll, this documentary reveals the forces that are keeping people sick and dares to ask: if up to 70% of cancer deaths are preventable, what are people waiting for?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF C

Summary: For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOU

Summary: Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAR

Summary: Winona LaDuke focuses on Enbridge's pipelines for fracked oil, it's dangers and how the shale oil boom is adversely affecting Indian Country. She gathers musicians, young people and native leadership, puts them on horses, organizes in northern Minnesota lake communities and creates a movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIR

Summary: Follows a group of U.S. soldiers as they create new lives post-Iraq from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter in Louisiana, set against the backdrop of the 2008 election.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOW

Summary: First Sgt. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas. His wife, the senior editor for the New York Times, relates the story of their relationship to their son as he grows up.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOU

Summary: Follows many of the soldiers featured in "Restrepo" after they've left combat in order to examine how war works, what it feels like, and what it does to the young men who fight it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KOR

Summary: Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLA

Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAS

Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MUD

Summary: This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, starting in 2007. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RES
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RES