Summary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MISSummary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists go to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BPMSummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENSummary: Silent film reenactment detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The film was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OCTSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: With unique access to a sitting member of Congress, this documentary tells the complex story of Rep. Barbara Lee, a steadfast voice for human rights, peace, and economic and racial justice. She was the lone vote in opposition to the broad authorization of military force following the September eleventh attacks and is the highest-ranking African American woman in the United States Congress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BARSummary: Two males and a female vie for office. They indulge in low blows, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all while gauging their standing with voters. The setting is a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China. Chronicles a public school's first open elections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLESummary: When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: Dennis Quaid delivers a tour-de-force performance as 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan in this cinematic journey that encapsulates the spirit of the American dream. From his small-town roots to the glitter of Hollywood where he meets actress Jane Wyman and Warner Brothers' studio president Jack Warner, Reagan's incredible story culminates in obtaining the presidency with the support of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. At great risk,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEBCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBSummary: A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efran̕ Ro̕s Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LLOSummary: A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Our 2016Summary: Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OURSummary: This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEGStreep, Meryl
Summary: Dramatized profile of Great Britain's controversial prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Iron 2012Summary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOBSummary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIT RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: Newly elected Congressman Roy Rogers attempts to bring attention to his constituents' farms that are being decimated by the Dust Bowl. Now that a water company has built a dam and is charging the farmers exorbitant rates for water, Roy must convince a group of important Senators to help him and the farmers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNDSummary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005