Mather, Craig

Summary: Follows the adventures of Ratty, Badger, and Mole as they are swept up in the impulsive Toad's insatiable need for speed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Follow four Scrabble game fanatics as they advance to the North American Championship. The film is a entertaining and humorous look at a board game that's an occasional amusement for some - and a serious obsession (or disturbing addiction) for others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Camera Planet 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: The film brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's twelve year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: With breath-taking CGI, beautiful landscape footage and some of the world's most important astronomical artifacts, Ancient Skies looks at the cosmos through the eyes of our ancestors, charting our changing views of the cosmos throughout history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: A three-part documentary event. Abraham Lincoln is a definitive biography of the 16th president, the man who led the country during its greatest crisis. Featuring over seven hours of compelling live-action scripted scenes, interviews with esteemed historians and public figures including President Barack Obama as well as archival materials, and segments acknowledging the invaluable influence of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the twentieth century. This is the first major documentary film to explore West₂s life and career, as she 'climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong' to become a writer, performer, and subversive agitator for social change.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: "This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

Whelpton, Jules

Summary: "Pick up your bow and confidently fiddle your way through a thorough and accessible beginner's violin course."--Wondrium.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wondrium 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Examines the history, science, and business of fireworks. Covers the origin of fireworks in China and their further development in England and Italy. Visits the "fireworks capital of the U.S.", New Castle, Pennsylvania, home of the Zambellis, the self-proclaimed "first family of fireworks."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: "A reflection on art, life, and the movies. ... [A] richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Richard Simmons Project H.O.P.E. will help you transform your body and change your life in just 90 days! The three month progressive system features three new programs each month; for a total of nine all new workouts. Each workout is designed to burn fat for optimal weight loss, sculpt muscle to perfection and build your level of fitness. Also includes a nutrition guide with diet information to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Walk in the shoes of an unlikely messenger who touched the world. Rare historical footage and compelling interviews with family members, lifelong friends, former presidents, and prominent broadcasters tell the remarkable story of Billy Graham.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

Conover, Julie

Summary: Julie Conover and Mark Jennings explore a variety of destinations across the planet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Topics Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

Summary: A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: A demonstration of qi gong, which combines gentle movements with breathing techniques to stimulate the body's energy for the purpose of promoting resiliency to illness and stress. Movements coverered in program include wuji qigong, swimming dragon, dragon pearl, and bagua xun dao gong. Instructor Francesco Garripoli discusses how he came to practice qi gong.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Explores the dangerous and destructive forces of nature, from hurricanes to volcanoes, tornadoes to avalanches and earthquakes. Rare footage reveals the Earth at its most violent. The making of Eyewitness (written and produced by Bill Butt ; director/cameraman Mike Kamei ; music by Guy Michelmore) shows the camera and computer techniques used in the production of the series opening screens.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

Summary: Roberto Miniverni tells the story of a black community in the American South during summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of young African American men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country that is not on their side.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kim Stim 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Conductor and violinist Scott Yoo is on the road again, for Season 4 of Now hear this. Join him in Buenos Aires, to learn the tango and Piazzolla's conflicted relationship with it. In Scotland and Germany, explore the connection between mental health and creative genius. In the boroughs of New York, meet a dynamic new composer pointing classical in a new direction. And in Spain, discover the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

Jia, Zhangke

Summary: Looks at the history of Shanghai through the personal stories of eighteen people from all walks of life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere