Summary: Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUSummary: Chronicles the life of Pete Seeger, the American singer/songwriter, who was a leader of the mid-20th century American folk music revival and wrote some of its best known songs. Also looks at his work as a labor and political activist and his experiences of being picketed, blacklisted, and banned from commercial television. Features archival footage and interviews with his family, including wife...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Live Nation Worldwide 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PETSummary: John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements were monumental. John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature creates a meaningful portrait of Art and Science in the first...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHSummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSummary: Mel Brooks, the comedian, director and screenwriter, has energetically avoided a documentary profile from being made, until now. He has agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MELSummary: Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BARSummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILSummary: Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUDSummary: Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BECSummary: "Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten--eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TESSummary: Explores the history of the American South and its music through the life of country singer Charley Pride. Raised in the segregated Mississippi Delta, Pride's voice, talent, and resolve led him to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHASummary: Follow Jim Henson's career as he transcended puppetry to become one of the most creative, prolific, and influential artists of his time. Witness key events unfold in his life, from his early television work with the Muppets and his commercial work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to his breakthrough with Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and his groundbreaking fantasy films Dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSummary: During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment: Vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular song and personal appearances, including hosting the Academy Awards a record 19 times and his annual USO Christmas military tours. Includes film, television, and radio clips; readings of excerpts from Hope's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THISummary: Examines the life of Muhammad Ali in and out of the boxing ring, covering his ties with the Nation of Islam, his political postions, including his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, his role as a symbol of Black masculinity, and life after boxing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUHSummary: Profiles American photographer Dorothea Lange, who came to the the attention of the world with her photographs documenting the Great Depression, and achieved lasting fame in the post-War years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DORSummary: Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ZORSummary: "Elvis by the Presleys is the most revealing and poignant video portrait we will ever see of the artist as husband, father and friend. As never before, Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley, along with members of Elvis' family and extended family, freely share their own stories, emotions and intimate memories on camera, and they allow us to enjoy home-movie footage of Elvis never before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony BMG Music Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ELVBezos, Jeff
Summary: Profiles Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and investigates the company's practices and impact, including interviews with executives, insiders, regulators, and critics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMARogers, Fred
Summary: Explores the life and career of Fred Rogers, and his successful educational children's television program, Mister Rogers' neighborhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MISSummary: For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. And while he never reached his dream of being president, and in fact is most remembered for his 1968 loss to Richard Nixon, Humphrey left behind a legacy few presidents can match. In November of 1977, for the first...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUBSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2010