Summary: Follows British psychiatrist Dr. Iain McGilchrist as he meets champions and critics of his theory that our brains are becoming imbalanced, with the left hemisphere gaining power as its ambitions are supported by the Western world, while making it harder to deal with important economic, environmental, and social issues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Presented by an anonymous North Korean professor, this anti-Western propaganda film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. ... Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROSummary: From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and, above all, ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants, its bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Features archival footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LONSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGSummary: Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ELESummary: An unconventional work in every way, the Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere. It shuttles viewers from one vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology. -- adapted from container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QATSummary: Explores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSummary: "Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000 - 5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed culture and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 ORICall number: DVD 930 ORI
Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 VIKCall number: DVD 948.022 VIK
Summary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSummary: The three-part natural history series merges science, culture, and history and brings audiences along for an unforgettable voyage through hundreds of millions of years of history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESummary: Transcendent Man explores the theories of inventor, futurist, and best selling author Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near), who predicts that in the not-so-distant future, the science fiction behind The Terminator, Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Matrix, and I Robot will become science fact. The film follows Kurzweil as he journeys the world sharing his mind-bending vision of a future in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Natives. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REESummary: Documentary about Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein, a devoted son of holocaust survivors, ardent critic of U.S. and Israeli Mid-East policy, and author of five provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry. Finkelstein has been steadfastly at the center of many intractable controversies, including the recent denial of his tenure at DePaul University. He's called a lunatic and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AME
Amalric, Mathieu
Summary: Filmmakers discuss François Truffaut's book "Le cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock" and its influence on their work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HITShamir, Yoav
Summary: Follows Shamir as he attempts to determine the current state of antisemitism; includes talks with members and critics of the Anti-defamation League, a trip to Auschwitz with Jewish school-children, and a visit to Brooklyn to investigate reports of violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEFSummary: "What the health is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation's health and how big business influences it"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASummary: This film presents, in documentary format, a glimpse of contemporary Gypsy life as expressed in a variety of musical settings. Scenes and music from Gypsy cultures in India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Spain. CNN report and interview with Tony Gatlif included.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madman Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LATSummary: Documents the story of Mr. Vig, an elderly bachelor who wants to turn his palatial home into a Russian Orthodox monastery, and Sister Ambrosija, the nun who investigates the feasibility of his wish, and the bond of friendship the two develop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2008