Summary: Kirby Dick's provocative film investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films. Kirby looks at some of the controversial rating decisions of the past four decades, hires a private eye to find out who these anonymous raters are and puts his own film through the rating process.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Genius Entertainment 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THI

Summary: A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INV

Summary: The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ACT

Summary: The Fall of Fujimori is a character and interview-driven documentary that explores the volatile events that define Alberto Fujimori's decade-long reign of Peru: his meteoric rise from the son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his self-coup that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary; and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAL

Summary: In 1996, music legend Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. He found gold. Looking for lost songs and forgotten singers, Cooder discovered an exotic land of passion, sensuality and music.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUE

Summary: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIR

Summary: Bosnia. Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world's humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at the frontlines of overwhelming human need.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIV

Summary: The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. Robert Kennedy Jr. joins the fight to preserve the mountain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Summary: Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment [distributor] 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AGR