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Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Who or what created the universe in which we live? The groundbreaking series into the Universe with Stephen Hawking combined cutting-edge computer graphics with Hawking's witty, distinctive and incisive world view. Now, the journey is taken a step further, as physics and cosmology become tools to answer questions that philosophers have struggled with for thousands...
2) Moby doc
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a surrealist biographical documentary narrated by Moby as he reflects on his turbulent personal life and music from underground punk bands to chart-topping solo artists, and from struggling addicts to vegan activists. Featuring interviews with David Lynch, David Bowie, and Shepard Fairey along with concert footage, utilizing a unique blend of re-enactments, interviews, and archival footage, audiences will be treated to an unvarnished look at...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich and inspiring documentary that takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment. Narrated by award winner Tilda Swinton.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics, the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her own experience and a custom blend of insight and humor, provocation and inspiration, personal story and social commentary, Emily takes her audience through its paradigm shift: from the Fear of Change to the Edge of Chaos. Emily Levine, like her film, was one-of-a-kind. She was a television...
5) Queer Japan
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, this documentary pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth."--Container.
Publisher
[MPI Media Group]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Branching off of his bestselling book, renowned forester and writer Peter Wohlleben guides us through his most precious ideas and understanding of how trees work in this enlightening documentary. Presenting ecological, biological, and academic expertise with matter-of-fact candor, Peter inspires us to see the forest for the trees. Traveling through Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Vancouver, Peter discusses, debates, and explains the amazing processes...
8) Hawking
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film features exclusive access to Hawking's life story, told largely in his own words. It includes dramatic accounts of his life from childhood through university, intimate footage of Hawking today, including his home routine and his work life at the University of Cambridge, archival footage and candid insights from family members, friends and colleagues.
9) 1964
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native American history also takes a hard and detailed look at President Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy of 1873, which was, in effect, a 'convert to Episcopalianism or starve' edict put forth by the American government in direct violation of its Constitution. The devastation it had on the values of the people affected...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (605 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackass: Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.
Jackass number two: Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
Jackass 2.5: The Jackass crew reunite to discuss their experiences with Jackass Number Two and show off some unused content and ideas.
Jackass 3: Johnny...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
12 Blu-rays (1,894 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 CDs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Multiple
Description
The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse's 'Woodlands dark and days bewitched.' From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen, and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world.
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