Summary: "Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MUS

Summary: An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. A dramatic tale of human potential and transformation that closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Freedom Behind Bars Productions 2010

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

Summary: On April 20, 2010, communities throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art offshore oil rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. In this documentary film, the director travels to small towns and major cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of the disaster on the people of the region.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015

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

Murphy, Mary

Summary: Explores the influence and popularity of Harper Lee's only novel, reflecting on the context and history of the novel's setting and the social changes it inspired.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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

Summary: Director Patricio Guzman travels to the driest place on earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2011

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