Summary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POVSummary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALSummary: A timely documentary that raises urgent questions about how we travel and the unintended cultural and environmental consequences of tourism around the globe. Gringo Trails follows well-worn travelers' routes through Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan and reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures, such as the host countries' need for financial security and the tourists who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: "The True Cost is a groundbreaking new documentary film that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks us each to consider, who pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums and features interviews with the world's leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth, Vandana Shiva and many...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUSummary: Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDSummary: Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIR
Summary: View a groundbreaking film, which tells the stories of nine extraordinary girls from nine countries, written by nine celebrated writers and narrated by nine renowned actors. Viewers will see a showcase of strength from the human spirit and the power of education to change the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 QATCulver, Tyson
Summary: Traveling through Beirut, Reykjavik, Kolkata, San Juan, Manhattan, and Boulder, tells the story of electricity and its impact on human progress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JUISummary: "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: Happy feet: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Happy 2013Summary: Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAR RATED GCopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday BCall number: DVD Ba
Summary: The return of Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg in an all-new comedic adventure. Character-driven comedy is the order of the day as this new take on the superhero series focuses on the funny business that happens between saving the world and living together as teenagers without adult supervision
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEESummary: Embark on thrilling adventures to South America and Mexico. Join Goofy, Donald Duck and Walt Disney himself as they experience all the music, beauty and excitement Latin America has to offer. Travel to fun and exciting places and capture the gangs' adventures along the way. It's Donald's turn to take a fantastic journey with his friends Joe Carioca and Panchito. Contains lighthearted dance and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CLASummary: Princess Aurora is born to King Stefan & his wife. At a ceremony for her, fairies - Flora, Fauna and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But the evil sorceress, Maleficent, shows up and places a curse on the princess - where Aurora will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SLECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD SleepingSummary: The beautiful Princess Odette is transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer's spell (which can only be broken by a vow of everlasting love) and held captive at an enchanted lake. There, she befriends Jean-Bob the frog, Speed the turtle and Puffn the bird. Despite their struggle to keep the princess safe, these good-natured animals can do nothing about the sorcerer's spell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie SwanSummary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get ahold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ONECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie 101 2008Summary: Long ago in a kingdom where music is outlawed, King Triton's youngest daughter Ariel discovers her love for music in a secret underground music club. Torn with the choice of whether to hide her passion or share it with her father and risk losing everything, Ariel sets off on a daring adventure to restore music to Atlantica.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Little 2008Summary: Celebrate Strawberry Shortcake's new royal movie adventure, in which Strawberry has just been appointed Berryfest Princess of the festival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Strawberry 2010Summary: Young Tommy and Anneka find a strange girl, Pippi Longstocking, has moved in on her own next door to them in their small Swedish town. They befriend the zany, superstrong Pippi and she takes them on all sorts of madcap adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fed up with their parents' rules, Pippi's friends decide to run away from home. They venture into the Swedish countryside with Pippi and her horse, encountering fun along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PIPSummary: "George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are having a very merry time counting down the days until Christmas. There's only one puzzle: neither of them can figure out what to give the other for a present ... Will they be able to find the answers before Christmas morning?"--Publisher
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURSummary: A dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane six embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018