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Language
English
Description
When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
2) Saving Jaws
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biologist OCEAN RAMSEY (“Shark Whisper") credits her connection with sharks to years of research, but others feel it’s something more. Join Ocean and a team of biologists as they travel the globe trying to halt their looming extinction.
3) Beers of Joy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
BEERS OF JOY is a fascinating, entertaining, and savory journey into our world’s favorite magical elixir. Feast upon stunning visuals from across the globe as four people immerse themselves in their passion for beer.
4) Pariah Dog
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Bengali
Description
PARIAH DOG is an award-winning creative documentary focusing on several eccentric street dog caretakers in Kolkata, India. Shot over three years, the film paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they love. These men and women have found meaning and purpose in their shared mission to care for neglected street dogs, who have existed in the towns and villages of India for thousands...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Defining Hope is a documentary that weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. It is about optimism and helps us define what 'quality of life' really means. The film focuses on palliative care, end of life issues, and hospice care. It offers a hopeful message...
6) Blackfish
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Killer whales – beloved, yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously – lie at the heart of BLACKFISH, which expands on the discussion of keeping such intelligent creatures in captivity. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
Author
Physical Desc
ix, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Storytelling through entertainment is one of the most powerful forms of mass communication--informing, enlightening, and inspiring audiences to get involved. Filmmaking for Change shows artists how to produce movies that matter--from story ideas to production, film festivals to distribution."--Back cover.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary unites the personal narratives of four women around the world using art to create positive change in their communities. From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, each of these women is contributing a stone to the mosaic of the women’s movement through their art. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Vail Film Festival** and...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the dramatic rise and fall of edible insect start-ups in America this documentary explores cultural taboos in diet and agriculture to find clues in fixing our broken food system. Tackling food security in climate catastrophe through commercial cricket farming in the rust belt, to bug eating festivals keeping Austin weird.
10) Cameraperson
Series
Criterion collection volume 853
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everything you need to know to make a documentary: from preliminary research on topics and audiences, to developing a business plan and securing funding, to working with a production team and interviewees, to post-production, marketing, and distribution. This down-to-earth guide is truly an all-access pass to what goes on behind the camera"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
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503 pages. 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 between nonfiction movies and American history -- how...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Africa's Great Civilizations In his six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing, and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only...
14) Up From Slavery
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr., 6 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Up From Slavery is a powerful, compelling and haunting 7-part documentary series that examines the history of slavery in America, from the arrival of the first African slaves through Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Civil War and beyond. In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded...
15) Killer Volcanoes
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NOVA's expert team looks for the signature of a volcanic eruption big enough to have blasted a huge cloud of ash and sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. Killer Volcanoes spotlights the search for the mystery volcano that plunged the globe into a deep freeze and inflicted famine on medieval Europe.
16) Love etc
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documented is a witty, poignant, and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love, depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage, newlyweds to a recent divorcee, and even a bachelor so frustrated in his search that he chooses to have children without a partner, follow along on each intimate journey.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Christmas, from pagan ritual to current traditions; looks at the legend of Father Christmas as it has changed through the years; unusual holiday celebrations across the United States are discussed; looks at technology for various aspects of Christmas.
19) The Infiltrators
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center—on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse...
20) McQueen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A personal look at the extraordinary life, career and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, “McQueen” is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary. Nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year and Best Documentary at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Hot...
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