Summary: During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Live Nation Worldwide 2007
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PETSummary: First released in 1915, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation ignited worldwide controversy with its graphic depictions of racism and white supremacy in the post-Civil War South. Nearly 100 years later, Paul D. Miller also known as conceptual artist/musician/writer DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, creates a daring 'remix' of Griffith's epic to expose the film's true meaning and relates it to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DJSummary: Presents the story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia in an effort to save the world from nuclear annihilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMSummary: In the Victorian Age, women could not access higher education. Instead, Fuller schools in the hothouse of her father's devotion. She absorbs the classics and learns Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German. Already accomplished authors, Fuller and Emerson shape the transcendentalist musings of Thoreau, Ripley, and Bronson Alcott. As she enters elite salon life, Fuller delivers sheer genius and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: A half-century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated film to ever win the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DESSummary: Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: "With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using deeply saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through the salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines--paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "What happens when humanity's infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras? Filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck once again turn their cameras directly on society, this time to explore, explain, and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown to change our human behavior. From Camera Obscura and the Lumiere Brothers to YouTube and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAN1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world, with glowing reviews, global press, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run, the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of a historic event. This fascinating documentary is a unique opportunity to discover what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CLOSummary: Ici et ailleurs: In this meditation on how cinema records history, the filmmakers, members of the Dziga Vertov Group, contrast a French family's life with an impressionistic portrait of war in Palestine, as reflected through television, books, and other media.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaumont vidéo 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HERSummary: Follows British psychiatrist Dr. Iain McGilchrist as he meets champions and critics of his theory that our brains are becoming imbalanced, with the left hemisphere gaining power as its ambitions are supported by the Western world, while making it harder to deal with important economic, environmental, and social issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVSummary: Uncover the extraordinary lives of women who overcame gender discrimination and segregation to build fulfilling lives and legacies along America's most iconic highway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROUSummary: Like Watergate and Vietnam, it is an icon of recent history. Gov. Rockefeller's brutal re-taking of the prison--a nine-minute, 1600 bullet assault that took the lives of 29 inmates and 10 guards held hostage--put an end to the four-day rebellion. But the struggles for justice, by both prisoners and guards, endured for three decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHOSummary: "Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history and see how science and genealogy can help rebuild a family tree broken by slavery. Join filmmaker Byron Hurt at his extended family reunion as they celebrate the joy of family in the African diaspora and discover new details of their history that they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: Told from the perspective of pioneering Sligo funeral director David McGowan, this documentary unflinchingly draws back the veil on an industry that is rarely spoken of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FUNSummary: The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short "The Alphabet" to his television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LYN1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWSummary: Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC ALLSummary: "An ecstatic voyage through the creative and spiritual universe of David Bowie, Moonage Daydream is a fittingly unclassifiable tribute to the shape-shifting rock iconoclast and his singular sound and vision. Exploding the conventions of the music documentary, director Brett Morgen remixes dazzling, never-before-seen footage of the artist throughout his career, reveling in his otherworldly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MOOSummary: The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REM1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood. Anna Hints' Sundance-winning documentary celebrates the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition, recognized on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024