Summary: Marinara sauce runs red through the streets of New Haven in this surprising, delectable documentary which profiles three pizza restaurants, Pepe, Sally's, and Modern, that together stand as the cornerstone of the town's Italian-American heritage and connoisseurs of the tastiest incarnations of America's favorite comfort food. This mouth-watering documentary will make viewers laugh and leave...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD PIZCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIZCodina, Alexandra
Summary: Explores the daily lives of a married couple with Down syndrome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MONFarrell, Colin
Summary: The story of Simon Fitzmaurice, an Irish filmmaker who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ITSDanhier, Celine
Summary: Examines the development of independent and experimental film in the economically bankrupt and dangerous New York City of the 1970s and 80s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A rare and personal portrait of a boy who becomes a musician, a husband, a rock star, a father and a songwriter whose words have touched millions. Cobain's story unfolds through his own narrative assembled from more than 25 hours of audiotaped conversations, never before made public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The documentary explores the intersection between Colin Kaepernick's anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America's ongoing racial turmoil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KAPSummary: Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor, as well as a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Trace Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age four with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Featuring rare...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DECSummary: Take a journey through paradise, from the timeless plazas of Old San Juan, around the island and back again, using the lighthouses at the four corners of the island as transition points. Features aerial and ground footage shot in high-definition with the latest technology; informative narration about the island's rich history, architecture, and lush natural beauty; and a soundtrack of local...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WLIW 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 VISSummary: 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: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOBCohen, Matthew
Summary: Martial arts expert Matthew Cohen presents two complete workouts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acacia 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7148 TAISummary: Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, the March For Our Lives movement included Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Samantha Fuentes, gun violence survivors, and teenage activists who pulled together the largest youth protest in American history. Their movement went global with rallies on six continents and in over 700 cities in every state across the nation,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC USCline, Eric H.
Summary: Join the Great Courses and National Geographic for a spellbinding journey to wondrous ancient sites, and explore the greatest marvels of archaeology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 CliCall number: DVD 930.1 Cli
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 930.1 ARCSummary: A vivid look at America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine. Centered through editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, as well as an impressive array of passionate writers, the film is a journey into the soul of American Journalism. With unfettered access and unfiltered honesty, it captures the day-to-day pressures and challenges of publishing a weekly magazine, as well as illuminating how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOTSummary: Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DEFSummary: A self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and on-screen banjo tablature so you can play all the music examples. Simply follow along with the music on the screen as you watch and listen to the teacher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Corp. 2010
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: DVD 787.88 PLASummary: A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INVSummary: When their land is sold to developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Kathputli, a hand-built artist colony hidden away in the alleyways of Delhi since the 1970s, must find a way to unite or splinter apart forever. Filmed from 2011 to 2014, this documentray chronicles the last days of of Kathputli, focusing on Puran the Puppeteer, Rahman the Magician, and Maya the Acrobat as they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOMSummary: Goes behind the scenes at the National Ballet of Canada to witness the creation, from early rehearsals to peformance, of choreographer James Kudelka's ballet The actress, featuring dancer Karen Kain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: View Video 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAKSummary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Independent journalists like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbi are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Cameras follow as they expose government and corporate deception; just as the ground-breaking independent journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ALLSummary: This film examines the claim that most if not all degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. It traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Although they didn't know each other, their individual research led to startlingly similar conclusions:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monica Beach Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 616.39 FORCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot gives the history of Les Quatre Vents, his twenty-acre English style garden in Charlevoix County, Quebec, and discusses his philosophy of gardening.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018