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Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Were you one of the more than 80,000 people around the globe who were uploading their personal video of what happened in their lives on July 24th, 2010? Directed by Kevin MacDonald and produced by Ridley Scott, these two filmmakers sifted through over 4,500 hours of footage to create one incredible motion picture event. Created entirely from footage uploaded by YouTube users, 'Life in a Day' is a film first: exhilarating, moving and very, very funny-it...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fractal: Stories Across the Gender Spectrum is a collection of 4 Transgender and Gender Queer Documentary Shorts that explores the wide spectrum of experiences often left out of the traditional narrative. From a successful trans woman running her own salon in New Orleans to a collective experimental video essay road film; the collection expands on the joys, struggles and honest conversations within the community"--Container.
A fine girl: Follows...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'California Typewriter' plunges us into the bittersweet moment in which a beloved technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Delivering a view on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, filmmaker Doug Nichol explores the mythology attached to the classic typewriter, as cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives (including Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough and Sam Shepard) celebrate the typewriter both as object...
4) Connected
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 80 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With humor and irony, the Shlain family life merges with philosophy to create both a personal portrait and a proposal for ways we can move forward as a civilization. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy of human endeavor while boldly championing the importance of personal connectedness for understanding and coping with today's global conditions.
Publisher
Menemsha Films, Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
It should have been a wonderful evening: Stephan and Elisabeth have invited their family and friends over for dinner, but as soon as Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are planning to name their unborn son Adolf, things get out of hand. As the evening escalates, secrets are revealed and truths are dragged to light in a clash of egos, wounded prides and hidden passions, served up for all to enjoy.
Publisher
Alive Mind
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Copenhagen, Brazil, and Los Angeles, Bikes vs cars examines the conflict between bike activists, who are fighting for the right to ride on city streets, and the automobile, oil, and construction lobbies, in whose interests it is to keep cities automobile-dependent.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From the early cave dwellers who first stumbled upon psychedelic mushrooms to the over 6000-year old tradition of opium cultivation in the East to a modern pharmaceutical industry with over 24,000 drugs on the market, drugs have played a role in our lives since well before recorded human history ... [This program] will journey through the millennia and look in on the greatest civilizations in human history to discover if drugs helped these societies...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 min.)
Language
English
Description
Data science, visualization, and artificial intelligence are powerful tools, but they can reinforce structural inequalities like sexism and racism. How do we-CTOs, product managers, marketing managers, data scientists, developers, and others-navigate these ethical challenges? The short answer: feminism-a vibrant body of thought and action from the past 50+ years that provides a model for analyzing and addressing the unequal distribution of power in...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film explores how the American Civil War created a 'republic of suffering' and charts the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Travel through time on a culinary adventure that reveals the humble beginnings and climactic interludes of cuisine throughout the ages to reveal how food has made us who we are today, and how it shapes our future.
11) The garden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, this film was born of director Derek Jarman₂s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the slow response to the AIDS crisis. This kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker₂s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A provocative documentary, where worldwide experts in the fields of futurology, anthropology, neuroscience and philosophy consider the impact of technological advances on the two certainties of human life: work and death.
13) Dreams rewired
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 17-page booklet.
Language
English
Description
Rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s, narrated by Tilda Swinton.
14) Bicentennial man
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.
Publisher
Appalshop
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with displaced or low-wage Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and workers and families impacted by globalization.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the meth rampage in America: the appalling impact on individuals, families and communities, and the difficult of controlling an essential ingredient in meth - ephedrine and pseudoephedrine - sold legally in over-the-counter cold remedies.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping,...
18) The age of AIDS
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part one follows the trail of a medical mystery which began in 1981 when five gay men in Los Angeles were diagnosed with a deadly new disease. Traces the international response in the first years of the epidemic, contrasting moments of inspirational leadership with the tragedy of missed opportunities. Reveals the astounding spread of the infection to over 70 million infections in 2006. Part two explores the chasm that emerged between rich and poor...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah.
20) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
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