Summary: Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, it would be decades before Ms. Tan would come to fully understand how her mother's self-destructive tendencies were rooted in watching her own mother kill herself after being forced into the former marital system of concubinage. This painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. An interweaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMYSummary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLISummary: National headlines blazed the story: Churchgoers Gunned Down During Prayer Service in Charleston. South Carolina. After a 21-year-old white supremacist opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, nine African Americans lay dead, leaving their families and the nation to grapple with this senseless act of terror. Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMAWinehouse, Amy
Summary: Examines the life and career of pop singer Amy Winehouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows several for-hire scientific experts that are regularly featured in the media speaking about threats to the public from various environmental and man-made events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC MERSummary: Flannery O'Connor's distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, O'Connor includes conversations with Mary Karr, Hilton Als and others. Through never-before-seen archival footage, examine the life and legacy of an American literary icon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.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
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAESummary: Back to Black tells the real story of how Amy's best known and most celebrated body of work came into being. Featuring previously unseen footage of Amy in the studio, new interviews with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, and the musicians who worked with Amy on the album, it offers fresh insights into Amy's remarkable gifts as a singer, songwriter, musician and performer. Also includes An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: They are known around the world as the topless female activists who fight corrupt and patriarchal political systems. Their weapon of choice is their bodies, which they place front and center in protests around the streets of Kiev, where the group began, and all across Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALISummary: Follow Dr. Anthony Fauci as he grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and his 50-year career as the Nation's leading public health advocate. Witness a rarely seen side of the physician, husband, and father as he confronts political backlash, a new administration, and questions of the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In this award-winning new documentary, director Jen Senko seeks to discover why her WWII veteran father’s personality radically transformed from that of a non-political Kennedy Democrat to an angry right-wing fanatic after his discovery of Talk Radio and Fox News. In trying to understand how this happened, Senko not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also comes to a startling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRASummary: Visit key climate-change hot spots in Europe and North America with the world's best-known climate activist during her year off from school. You'll witness first-hand the effects of global warming on weather, ocean life, and human and animal migration, and be inspired by Greta's determination to demand action and find solutions. Meet leading climate scientists who help you better understand the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: A documentary film that will tell the bittersweet story of one of the most innovative comedians who ever graced the stage, screen and television, before his untimely death from a drug overdose at the tender age of only 33. Immortalized for his uniquely bold, energetic, and in-your-face comedic style, Chris Farley's off the charts talent cemented his place as a key player in a movement that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: "The American Sector explores the presence of the Berlin Wall in the United States: as an object, artifact, and supposed symbol of national values. For 18 months Pacho Velez and Courtney Stephens traveled the US to document sections of the wall that are on display in over 75 locations, ranging from the serious (Fort Benning) to the bizarre (Main Street Station Casino in Las Vegas) and even the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: "Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity ... For centuries, devoted pilgrims hoping to reach the fabled temple needed to undertake an arduous multi-day journey. Today, because of a new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: "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 PROKaurismaki, Aki
Summary: Finnish musicians the Leningrad Cowboys seek fame and fortune touring America with their manager Vladimir and the village idiot; Vladimir turns into a delusional self-proclaimed prophet, wanting to lead the boys back home; documents the Leningrad Cowboy's Helsinki concert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AKISummary: Four Europeans from different cultures and fields of art set off in a minibus with a quality trove of world literature. They go in search, across a vast desert-like landscape, to find a place as remote as possible where they will establish the world's last bookshop. An isolated location is just perfect for their purpose, as there, the printed books of the world will be much safer from big city...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASSummary: In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on a most unusual sea voyage, a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft christened the Acali, initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genoves, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020