Summary: "Frontline goes behind closed doors to tell the inside story of how things went so wrong so fast and to document efforts to stabilize the industry. Veteran Frontline producer Michael Kirk untangles the complicated financial and political web threatening one superbank in particular, Bank of America."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRESummary: In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEDSummary: Frontline investigates the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11th and continues today. As big technology companies encouraged users to share more and more information about their lives, they created a trove of data that could be useful not simply to advertisers, but also to the government. The revelations of NSA contractor Edward...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc UnCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV UNISummary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: " ... lays bare the science of vaccine safety and examines the increasingly bitter debate between the public health establishment and a formidable populist coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and activists who are armed with the latest social media tools ... and are determined to resist pressure from the medical and public health establishments to vaccinate, despite established...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VACSummary: Looks at the postwar era of using submarines to monitor Soviet communications. Shows what the lives were like aboard the diesel and nuclear subs. Tells about disasters and near disasters with the submarines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 359.93 DVD Blind 2007Summary: The program traces how decisions made in Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of September 11th led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The program provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TORSummary: Investigates the death of Michelle O'Connell, found dead in 2010 by her boyfriend, Jeremy Banks, a St. Augustine, Florida deputy sheriff on the night that she broke up with him. Follows an investigation into the cause of death, originally ruled a suicide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DEASummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GHOSummary: Traces the political history and career of Karl Rove--a man who has been on the inside of every political and policy decision of George W. Bush's administration, including the battles on Social Security, taxes, and tort reform.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KARSummary: 100 of the NBA's greatest plays are broken down into 10 categories of 10 amazing plays each: Buzzer Beaters, Dunks, Blocks, Clutch Plays, Teamwork Plays, Assists, Hustle Plays, Moves, Steals, Alley-oops.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Team Marketing 2014
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Summary: [Parts 1-3] Looks at the impact of political, cultural, legal and economic forces on the news media. Traces the recent history of American journalism from Watergate to the war on terror and how the freedom of the press is being challenged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NEWSummary: Sex trafficking happens in every state across America, and many victims are children. Frontline travels to Phoenix, Arizona to investigate the lucrative industry and examine efforts to combat it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He's also a funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead -- and the living -- for three generations. For the first time, Lynch agreed to allow cameras inside Lynch & Sons, giving FRONTLINE producers Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor rare, behind-the-scenes access -- from funeral arrangements to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV UNDSummary: Part one follows the trail of a medical mystery which began in 1981 when five gay men in Los Angeles were diagnosed with a deadly new disease. Traces the international response in the first years of the epidemic, contrasting moments of inspirational leadership with the tragedy of missed opportunities. Reveals the astounding spread of the infection to over 70 million infections in 2006. Part...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AGESummary: Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEI RATED NRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEIArtist Not Provided
Summary: Explores the world of assisted suicide, hearing from the people choosing to die, their assisters, and right-to-die organizations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SUIArtist Not Provided
Summary: An investigation of how teenagers from Central American countries were smuggled into the United States by traffickers who promised them a better life, only to force them into a life of slavery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRAWyman, Bill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WYMWyman, Bill.
Contents: Green river (3:14) -- Walking on my own (5:36) -- Melody (4:08) -- Stuff (can't get enough) (3:41) -- Bad to be alone (3:19) -- I'm mad (3:23) -- Down in the bottom (2:57) -- Motorvatin' mama (3:36) -- Jitterbug boogie (3:10) -- Going crazy overnight (3:53) -- Hole in my soul (4:03) -- Tobacco road (4:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Velvel Records 1998