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Documentary Documentary films. Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. Nonfiction films. Nonfiction television programs. Television cooking shows. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Opens the door to a world where sight, sound, and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. With Evelyn Glennie, Grammy winning percussionist who is also deaf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUSummary: The story of China's 8,000 terracotta warriors begins two centuries before the birth of Christ. The First Emperor of China was preparing an extravagant tomb for his journey into the afterlife, and decreed that he be protected forever by a monumental army. Since then no one has seen these ancient warriors in their original splendor, brightly painted and fully armed, ready to protect their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHISummary: In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALCSummary: Join the cast as they reveal the test kitchen's secrets to foolproof cooking at home. From simple combinations to more complicated ones, these recipes will work the first time you try them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 AMESummary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASISummary: Globe Trekker Megan McCormick travels to Barcelona in the Spanish region of Catalunya and discovers a culture that prides itself on being different. With its sun kissed beaches and Gothic palaces, Barcelona is an Olympian city worthy of the gods and the modernist capital of the world where some of the greatest artists on earth found their fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Film and TV Productions 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Katy Haswell visits Belgium and Luxembourg, two European countries small in stature but large in attractions, such as Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, and the site of the battle of Waterloo, then Luxembourg in time to take part in the National Day festivities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.93 BELSummary: Due to its colonial history, Brazilians speak Portuguese, and with more than 150 million people, they form the largest Catholic nation on earth. Visit the historic Northeast, from Salvador following the coast to the mouth of the mighty Amazon, the world's largest river. Attend a Candomble Ceremony, one of the fastest growing and most popular cults in Brazil. Go down a mine near the colonial...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Escapi Media 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.104 BRASummary: Globe Trekker Zay Harding visits the Balkan countries of former Yugoslavia: Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Starting in Kosovo, Zay explores the capital city Pristina before traveling the following day to Gazimestan, a memorial to a war that took place between Serbians and Turks in 1389. Zay moves on to Serbia to attend a traditional farming festival outside the Kalenic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.9604 BALSummary: It features the best regional home cooking in the country and relies on a practical, no-nonsense food approach where family-friendly recipes are scientifically re-imagined for the modern home cook. Join hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison as they uncover blue-ribbon specialties from across the country and classic fare in need of a makeover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 COOSummary: Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KORSummary: Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WESSummary: Examines the national public health threat posed by Alzheimer's disease, which erodes memory, thinking, and physical ability. Experts present evidence that unless a cure is found soon, the disease will have serious impact on the U.S. economy, bankrupting Medicare and Medicaid as well as millions of Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALZSummary: "Traveler Estelle Bingham starts her exploration of the ancient city at Topkapi palace [i.e. Palace], former home of sultans and their concubines. She interrups her sightseeing for a day trip to Gallipoli, the site of an infamous World War I battlefield. Continuing her journey around Istanbul, she visits the opulent Pera Palace Hotel. After some retail therapy in the Grand Bazaar, she ends her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Escapi 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.961 ISTSummary: "Globe Trekker Shilpa Mehta visits a handful of the Philippines' 7100 islands, encountering great cultural, spiritual and geographical diversity on her way. The only Christian nation in South East Asia, the Philippines remain off the main beaten tourist track. Beginning her journey on the largest island of Luzon, Shilpa is treated by a faith healer, witnesses the Easter ritual of real life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.9904 PHISummary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BENSummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: A two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, who speak about their lived experience with mental health challenges, from depression to addiction to suicide ideation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HIDSummary: This 6-part series will be shown on PBS in the Spring of 2006. Includes: Voyage To Kure (Parts I & II), The Gray Whale Obstacle Course, Sharks: At Risk, and America's Underwater Treasures (Parts I & II).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 363.41 Prohibition 2011Summary: This explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PROSummary: It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019