Summary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: In Tibet, a once-sovereign nation for thousands of years, much of the country remains under harsh Communist Chinese rule and "patriotic re-education." The surviving Tibetan folk music shapes an endangered people's identity. Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who fled for India at the age of two, returned home to capture the music of his people. He was arrested and sentenced to eighteen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIBSummary: A biography of the Hollywood power broker who spent over 60 years at MCA and Universal Studios. Includes interviews with Jimmy Carter, Robert Evans, Larry King, and Michael Ovitz among others..
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASSummary: Visit key climate-change hot spots in Europe and North America with the world's best-known climate activist during her year off from school. You'll witness first-hand the effects of global warming on weather, ocean life, and human and animal migration, and be inspired by Greta's determination to demand action and find solutions. Meet leading climate scientists who help you better understand the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: Documents an entire school year with Wilma Stephenson and those students committed enough to surrender themselves to her enlightened despotism. By the end of the year, thirteen of her students will have made it through the gauntlet. At a school where over 40% of students don't even make it to their senior year, Wilma shows her kids how to achieve the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PREFlorez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARSummary: The movies, the magic, the memories, the greatest moments, the brightest stars. The incomparable Golden Era of MGM musicals shines in this compilation of music and dance performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THASummary: The Jordan family has farmed in Iowa for generations. Due to the crisis of the '80s and '90s, they are in danger of losing the farm. One of the daughters comes back home to document the extraordinary efforts the family makes to keep their farm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROSummary: A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OUR
Summary: Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUNSummary: "Since 1925 the Streit's matzo factory has sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. While other matzo companies have modernized, Streit's remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation's unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the factory itself. In a neighborhood where the Jewish immigrants long ago moved on, in a nation where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSummary: Ten of boxing's finest fighters tell what it was like to battle Muhammad Ali, the man many consider to be the best boxer ever. Ali's incomparable journey is recounted through the eyes of those who stepped through the ropes and into history. Join these respected fighters as they weigh in on 'The Greatest' and pay tribute to a living legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FACSummary: An in-depth biography of the famed author, Charles Dickens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment 2006
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Contents: The big men: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Willis Reed, Bill Russell, Bill Walton -- The shooting stars: Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Bob Pettit -- The shooting guards: Bob Cousy, Walt Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Sam Jones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marathon Music & Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GREBernard, Sheila Curran
Summary: "Drawing on the narrative tools of the creative writer, the unique strengths of a visual and aural media, and the power of real-world content truthfully presented, Documentary Storytelling offers advice for producers, directors, editors, and cinematographers seeking to make ethical and effective nonfiction films, and for those who use these films to educate, inform, and inspire. Special...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.1 BERSummary: Gates of Heaven: uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry. Vernon, Florida: travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GATSummary: "Killer B3 puts you in front, behind and inside the more than 425-pound keyboard often called the beast, the Hammond Organ. The Hammond Organ is like a pipe organ on steroids. You need the dexterity of an octopus to control its two keyboards, 36 drawbars, 25 foot pedals and its host of buttons and switches - all of which make it come alive. While there are many models of Hammond Organs, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Soul Productions 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KILSummary: In WNMU-TV's newest documentary, people living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recall World War II, sharing images and stories from the battlefields of Asia and Europe, and the hometowns we know and love. ... WNMU-TV travelled across the U.P., interviewing veterans, historians, and others who lived through the war. They talked about the military life, the battles on land and sea, the heroes,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public 13 TV/Northern Michigan University 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 940.53 UPRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV U.P.Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. DVD U.P.Summary: An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEASummary: Collection of several behind-the-scenes films and television shows highlighting the work of Walt Disney Studios, originally released between 1937 and 1957.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEHSummary: An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of the Soviet Union to study the relation between cinema and reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: "Where did Anthony 'Zorba the Greek' Quinn actually grow up? What happened to Shirley Temple after the 'Good Ship Lollipop' of child superstardom sailed? Was Grace Kelly always destined to be a princess? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions in this collection!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image/Madacy Entertainment 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEG1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEG
Summary: "Hosted by Christopher Lee, the first show of its kind ever produced; chronicling the history of movie horror from the earliest experimental chillers through the unforgettable golden age of movie monsters, and on through today's terrifying fright films. Featuring rare interviews with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, ad Claude Rains- take a thrilling look...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018