Summary: "After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CUBSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANSummary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHMoore, Alan
Summary: Documents the life and career of comic book author Alan Moore.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MINSummary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLESummary: A feature documentary film following six individuals deploying and grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often controversial solutions to the problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIPSummary: The Shining, Carrie, It, Misery, Stand By Me; more than 60 of Stephen King's novels have been adapted into films. King on Screen pulls back the curtain and offers an intimate sit down with the filmmakers who brought King's stories to life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: The First Alphabet: Follow the evolution of the written word, from millennia-old carvings in an Egyptian turquoise mine to modern-day alphabets. How Writing Changed the World: The printing press transformed the spread of information, igniting the Industrial Revolution. How did technologies, from pen to paper to printing press, make it all possible?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASummary: For thousands of years, songbirds were regarded by mankind as messengers from the gods. Today, these creatures, woven inextricably into the fabric of our environment, are vanishing at an alarming rate. Under threat from climate change, pesticides and more, populations of hundreds of species have dipped dramatically. As scientists, activists and bird enthusiasts investigate this phenomenon,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MESSummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOSummary: La historia verdadera de Pablo Escobar, el jefe del cartel de drogas de Medellín, relatado por la primera vez por su hijo Sebastián y su viuda María Isabel Campos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SINSummary: Explores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016