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1) Blackfish
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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**.
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ix, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"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 (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (*March of the Penguins*) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, this is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action. Nominated for a...
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney pulls no punches in his portrait of Apple founder Steve Jobs and his legacy. This probing look at the life and aftermath of this iconoclast explores what accounted for the grief of so many when he died. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and the **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
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1 videodisc (200 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Pushed by the need to haul ever longer and heavier trains, the United States's locomotive works responded with the invention of awe-inspiring articulated steam engines. See the Union Pacific's famed "Big Boy" in action and ride the rails of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western railways. Meet the men who drove engines like the Allegheny and Yellowstone, and visit the museums and yards where the largest steamers ever built remain.
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"The impresario Serge Diaghilev was the creator and driving force of the Ballets Russes. He persuaded, cajoled, and charmed the greatest talents of the early twentieth century to join his company. Artists (Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse), composers (Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie), choreographers (Michel Fokine and George Balanchine), and dances (Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova) all collaborated to realize Diaghilev's dream of a seamless fusion...
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan, The Game Changers follows James Wilks - elite Special Forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter - whose world is turned upside down when he discovers a group of world-renowned athletes and scientists who prove that everything he had been taught about protein was a lie. Directed by Oscar-winner Louie Psihoyos, The Game Changers mixes real-time, groundbreaking science...
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2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
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English
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"It began as a border dispute, but soon escalated into a 16-month conflict that transformed a continent. The [film] tells the exciting and dramatic story of a war that cost Mexico nearly half its territory -- the present Southwest from Texas to California. This critically acclaimed documentary series, the first to study both sides of the conflict, presents a historical panorama filled with unforgettable characters like Mexican president Antonio Lopez...
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction, Racing Extinction reveals stunning, never-before seen images...
13) There there
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Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional...
15) The final year
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A chronicle of the Barack Obama administration's foreign policy team and the events of Obama's final year in office.
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1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural.
17) Waisted: a novel
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275 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers. Alice and Daphne, both successful working mothers, both accomplished and seemingly steady, harbor the same secret: obsession with their weight overshadows concerns about their children, husbands, work--and everything else of importance...
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1 videodisc (approximately 62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4in.
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English
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Explores the dangerous and destructive forces of nature, from hurricanes to volcanoes, tornadoes to avalanches and earthquakes. Rare footage reveals the Earth at its most violent. The making of Eyewitness (written and produced by Bill Butt ; director/cameraman Mike Kamei ; music by Guy Michelmore) shows the camera and computer techniques used in the production of the series opening screens.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 293 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Through personal letters, official reports and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal reasons why our nation took up arms. Includes: period photography, music, re-enactments and more.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
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