Summary: Program 3 of an anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and os.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2004

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

Larison, Jim

Summary: Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than thirty environmental films, most for the National Geographic Society. These films won more than forty international awards from leading environmental and broadcast organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LAR

Summary: Last in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events that changed the way Americans saw themselves. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 16, 1939, urged the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V3

Summary: Second in a three--part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events at the beginning of the 20th century. The Homestead Strike on July 6, 1892 was the result of harsh working conditions at Carnegie's Homestead steel mill, a battle between...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V2

Wilkman, Jon

Summary: "Even with claims of a new 'post-truth' era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more nonfiction movies are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating and compounding our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. How did this happen? Providing answers, Screening Reality is a widescreen view of the rarely examined relationship...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.1 WIL

Summary: First in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of four documentary films tells of four events in early U.S. history. The Pequot War, a massacre in Mysic, Conn. on May 26, 1637, set the pattern of possessing Indian land in America. Shays' Rebellion (Jan. 25, 1787) was a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V1

Summary: Profiles baseball legends from the early years, fabulous fifties, and the modern era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MM & V 2000

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRE

Hall, Richard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 2007

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

Summary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007

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