Summary: Shortly after noon on September 11, 2001, retired FDNY firefighter Mike Lennon arrived at the devastation of the World Trade Centers. After two weeks of digging, first for survivors and then for remains, he grabbed his camera and began interviewing every firehouse that had lost men. An interview done prior to 9/11 with John Satore, a firefigher who died at the WTC, leads to a flood of memories...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2004

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

Summary: The tragedy and horror of the 9/11 attacks triggered a host of changes in America, including a reassessment of the role of sports and its accompanying hero-worship. Batting averages and home run totals were no longer paramount, particularly in New York, but in the Fall of 2001 baseball played a significant role in the city's recovery efforts. Revisits that remarkable and inspiring phenomenon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005

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

Summary: This is the true-life story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord. With the first hand testimony of the Godfather himself, Nicky Barnes, who was the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. From humble beginnings, he came to dominate the heroin distribution business. Trusted and trained by the Italians, he set up his own crime family --The Council.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: The rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, America's first great soccer team, and its larger-than-life superstar, Pel.̌ The Cosmos kicked off America's first love affair with the world's most popular sport in the 1970s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing, and from their candid and hilarious perspectives, reveal pieces of themselves along the way. This school program started in 1994 and today has over 6,000 kids from 60 schools involved.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAD
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAD

Summary: The Friedman's seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold and his son Jesse with sexually molesting scores of young boys. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hit the Ground Running 2004

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

Summary: Rick McKay filmed over one hundred of Broadway and Hollywood's greatest stars. In their own words they tell how they came to New York and created this legendary century in American theatre, thereby preserving the memories of historic Broadway performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dada Films/RCA Victor/BMG 2004

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

Summary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Chronicling this capital case from 1984-2004, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg painstakingly frame the judicial and emotional reponses to a chilling crime, and the implications surrounding Darryl Hunt's wrongful conviction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Thinkfilm 2007

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

Summary: The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. When they engineer an announcement that Dow will clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe, Dow's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2010

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

Summary: Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2007

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

Summary: The story of a Paul Pena, a blind American blues musician, and his trek to Tuva to live among its inhabitants and compete in their triennial khoomei (throat singing) contest. He is accompanied by a documentary film team and Tuvinian throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2000

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEN

Summary: Many advocates of marijuana legalization actually oppose Initiative 502, the law that will permit growing, sale, and use of cannabis, because it may impose harsh DUI laws and new taxes that could hurt medicinal marijuana patients and providers. This unexpected political clash exposes the economic and human impact of an already controversial subject.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013

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

Summary: In 1957, Little Rock Central became a symbol of the struggles and hopes of the Civil Rights Movement. African-American students were not allowed into the building. An eye-opening look at racial equality, education, and class at the high school today.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007

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

Summary: This 10-part documentary covers rock 'n' roll history from its humble beginnings in the '50s to Lollapalooza in the '90s. Experience favorite rock 'n' roll moments through hundreds of exclusive interviews, classic footage and concert performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

Summary: A biographical documentary of John Lennon, using home movies, interviews, tv footage, songs and reminiscences of friends and family. .

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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