Summary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009

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Summary: The tragedy and horror of the 9/11 attacks triggered a host of changes in America, including a reassessment of the role of sports and its accompanying hero-worship. Batting averages and home run totals were no longer paramount, particularly in New York, but in the Fall of 2001 baseball played a significant role in the city's recovery efforts. Revisits that remarkable and inspiring phenomenon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005

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Young, D.W.

Summary: Profiles the New York community of rare book collectors and dealers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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Summary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: In 1972 Mark Moskowitz read a New York Times book review of "The stones of summer" by Dow Mossman, a title which, later in Moskowitz's life would later become an object of obsession. Though he shelved the book for 25 years, Moskowitz finally read it and was amazed at its ingenuity. He was shocked that its one-time author never penned another book. Determined to solve the mystery, Moskowitz...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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Summary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013

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Summary: Told through the eyes and hands of acclaimed artists across the world, the film explores the surprising world of taxidermy, where sculptors must also be scientists. From a studio in Los Angeles that has elevated taxidermy to the forefront of fashion to fine artists in the Netherlands, these passionate experts push creative boundaries while revealing the importance of preserving nature.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Summary: Chronicles a championship year for the Caltech Beavers, a team historically unaccustomed to winning.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Forest Films?] 2007

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Summary: The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. When they engineer an announcement that Dow will clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe, Dow's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2010

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Summary: "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Nelson, Erik

Summary: Surviving Eighth Air Force veterans recall their experience during World War II.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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Summary: A documentary that explores the possibility that extra-terrestrial creatures visited Earth thousands of years ago and were responsible for many of the structures built by ancient man.

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Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2005

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Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014

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Summary: For the first time you can be there, 12,000 feet below the ocean's surface, inside an unparalleled undersea volcanic world filled with strange creatures and dramatic landscapes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005

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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2013

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Summary: Interweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional with that of Haiti: from the brutality of French colonialism and the bloody revolution that brought Haitians their freedom to the crushing foreign debt and the 15-year American occupation that ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Franȯis "Papa Doc" Duvalier. We see the hope that was created by Jean Bertrand Aristide, and the despair that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012

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Summary: Summiting Mount Everest is a grueling and dangerous endeavor, known to torture the mind, body, and soul of those who even dare. When a 68-year-old great grandfather attempts this feat, what ensued was the worst disaster in mountaineering history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vision films 2020

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Summary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...

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Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015

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Summary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013

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Summary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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