DVD - Documentaries & How-To Films
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A brief history of the future
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Renowned futurist Ari Wallach invites viewers on a journey around the world that is filled with discovery, hope, and possibility about where we find ourselves today and what could come next. This series challenges the dystopian framework embraced by popular culture by offering a refreshing take on the future. The docuseries asks us all: how can we become the great ancestors the future needs us to be? "A Brief History of the Future" weaves together history, science, and unexpected ideas to expand our understanding about the impact that the choices we make today will have on our tomorrows.
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DVD
Call Number:
303.490905 Bri
Great American eclipse
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Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the moon's shadow is sweeping from Texas to Maine, as the U.S. witnesses its last total solar eclipse until 2044.
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DVD
Call Number:
523.78 Gre
Grizzly 399 : queen of the Tetons
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Grizzly 399, the most famous bear in Grand Teton National Park, has an exceptional litter of four cubs to raise. The family must contend with conflicts between people and bears, a warming climate, and human encroachment in bear country.
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DVD
Call Number:
599.784 Gri
In search of Bass Reeves
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In this documentary, rediscover a legend lost to time: Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, perhaps the most preeminent lawman of the Old West.
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DVD
Call Number:
363.282 In
Armenia, my home
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Prominent Armenian Americans share the collective memories that make the country "home" for even those in the diaspora. Armenia, My Home blends the epic with the everyday to reveal what makes Armenia unique. Travel the colorful streets of the capital city of Yerevan and find awe in its nighttime glow. Experience the emotional impact of centuries-old religious monuments and the Genocide Memorial. Goosebump-inducing viese of majestic Mount Ararat offer the quintessential experience of the country for those who have never seen it in person. With sweeping passes throught the Caucasus Mountains, a descent into a dungeon and more, discover the magic of this ancient land.
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DVD
Call Number:
956.62 Arm
Mammals
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David Attenborough, narrator
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The contemporary and unfiltered series offers fascinating insights into the most successful animal group ever, from the tiny Etruscan shrew to the giant blue whale. Mammals, the most loved group of all animals, are found on every continent and in every ocean, from the frozen wildernesses to the densest jungles, in the hottest deserts and the darkest depths. Discover the secrets to their success their winning design, incredible adaptability, unrivalled intelligence and unique sociability. The series also highlights many of the challenges facing mammals in a rapidly changing world and how they endeavour to overcome them.
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DVD
Call Number:
599 Mam
Secrets of sacred architecture
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For most of America's history, sacred buildings represented our greatest feats of innovative engineering and artistic design. Embedded in the architecture of churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples is a secret language of sorts that influences the faithful inside and the culture outside. Unlock the elements of design that make these structures so fascinating and unveil the meaning in religious architecture.
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DVD
Call Number:
726.0973 Sec
Uncropped
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D.W. Young
James Hamilton
Wes Anderson
Thurston Moore
Sylvia Plachy
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In Uncropped, legendary Village Voice photojournalist James Hamilton recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the course of a forty-year career. This is a visual chronicle of New York City and a window into the heyday of alternative print media. Alfred Hitchcock. Muhammed Ali. Meryl Streep. LL Cool J.--James Hamilton captured them all.
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DVD
Call Number:
974.7 Unc
The cancer detectives
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How one of the most impactful, lifesaving tests for women was created and popularized by a Greek immigrant and his wife, a famous Japanese-American illustrator who was detained in a WW2 internment camp, and a groundbreaking Black female surgeon. In the 1950's, survival rates from cancer of any kind were low. Damaging surgery and unsophisticated radiotherapy were the main treatments, assuming the disease was detected in time for anything to be done. Cervical cancer was often asymptomatic until it was well advanced, and by that time, it was often a death sentence.
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DVD
Call Number:
616.994 Can
Kim's video
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Ashley Sabin
David Redmon
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Physical media reigns supreme in KIM'S VIDEO, a tribute to the iconic video store in NYC that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small Sicilian village for "safekeeping." What starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.
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DVD
Call Number:
777 Kim
Television event
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Television Event is an archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, The Day After (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection with an audience of over 100 million, and forced an urgent conversation with the US President on how to collectively confront and resolve the most pressing issue of the time - nuclear proliferation.
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DVD
Call Number:
791.45 Tel
Nazi Town, USA
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In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America.
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DVD
Call Number:
973.917 Naz
Fly with me
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Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. Becoming a "stewardess," as they were called, offered unheard-of opportunities for travel, glamour, adventure and independence. Although often maligned as feminist sellouts, these women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace. Featuring firsthand accounts, personal stories and a rich archival record, the film tells the lively and important but neglected history of the women who changed the world while flying it.
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DVD
Call Number:
387.7 Fly
Hope in the water
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Baratunde Thurston, narrator
Martha Stewart, narrator
Shailene Woodley, narrator
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Marking Kelley's foray into docu-series television, HOPE IN THE WATER travels the globe to discover the creative solutions and breakthrough blue food technologies that could not only feed us but help save our threatened seas and fresh waterways. The series highlights the stories of amazing innovators, aquafarmers, and fishers who are working toward a sustainable future for the planet.
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DVD
Call Number:
338.19 Hop
Pompeii : the new dig
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The new landmark three-part series follows the most extensive archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation. Nearly two years in the making, with exclusive access to the dig and the all-Italian team of archaeologists, the series follows the excavation of an entire city block, Insula 10, in the north of the city.
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DVD
Call Number:
937.72568 Pom
Going to Mars : the Nikki Giovanni project
Author(s):
Michele Stephenson
Joe Brewster
Nikki Giovanni
Taraji P. Henson
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Shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is a beguiling documentary portrait that follows poet and activist Nikki Giovanni as she approaches 80. The film explores Giovanni's Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject's own aesthetic verve. Looking back at a personal life and history cast in the long shadow of American racism, and forward to hopeful, possible futures, Giovanni acts as our guide and narrator, with refreshingly unorthodox filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michl̈e Stephenson refraining from traditional chronologies or talking-head conventions. Going to Mars is fueled by constant intellectual engagement and radical imagination in the search for emotional and political fulfillment in a world of disenfranchisement.
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DVD
Call Number:
323.092 Goi
Lightning over Braddock and collected shorts : the films of Tony Buba.
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For five decades, Tony Buba has chronicled the industrial decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, with bleakly disarming humor and a boldly self-reflexive style. Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films present a two-disc collection of his newly restored films starting with his 1970s shorts and working its way through his feature-length masterpiece.
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DVD
Call Number:
974.885 Lig
