Summary: Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Director Morgan Neville offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie's family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer's fascinating life story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 921 ChristieSummary: Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD I Am NotSummary: Lucy Worsley recreates how Christmas was celebrated during the age of Henry VIII, eating, drinking, singing, dancing and partying as people did 500 years ago. On each of the traditional twelve days of Christmas, Lucy reveals a different aspect of the festivities, uncovering fresh insights into the Tudor mind and casting a captivating new light on Christmas itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 323 DrivingSummary: Reveals how consumer demand for five species has America importing 90% of its seafood threatening fishing communities and public health. But pioneering chefs and fishermen are leading a movement to reconnect us back to our local seafood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 639 FishSummary: A handful of men and their expertly trained dogs search for rare, expensive and delicious white Alba truffles deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At a time when the free press is under threat, OBIT. takes a rare look inside one of the United States' foremost journalistic institutions, The New York Times. The steadfast writers of the paper's Obituaries section approach their work with journalistic rigor and narrative flair, each day depositing the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory. Going beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 070 ObitSummary: "How do 1.1 billion people around the world live on less than one dollar a day? Four young friends set out to research and live this reality. Armed with only a video camera and a desire to understand, they spend just 56 dollars each for 56 days in rural Pena Blanca, Guatemala. They battle E.Coli, financial stress, and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, the generosity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Creative Visions] 2013
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 305.56 LivingSummary: From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 629.45 ApolloSummary: Walt Disney was uniquely adept at art as well as commerce, a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of technology and storytelling. This new film examines Disney's complex life and enduring legacy. Features rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, scenes from some of his greatest films, interviews with biographers and animators, and the designers who helped turn his dream of Disneyland...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 921 DisneyAmalric, Mathieu
Summary: Filmmakers discuss François Truffaut's book "Le cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock" and its influence on their work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 791.43 HitchSummary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 970 PBSSummary: Spend one season with the D.C. Divas. One of America's toughest full-contact female football teams. The documentary follows an eclectic group of full-contact female football players for one season as they fight: fight to balance their lives as mothers, daughters, wives, partners, and employees; fight to raise funds for training and equipment fees, fight through injuries, and, ultimately fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 796 VictoriousSummary: Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD FreeSummary: Tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2009
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 709 HerbSummary: As one of America's most beloved children's show hosts, Mr. Rogers remains one of the most iconic television figures for families worldwide. This documentary takes a closer look at the person behind the show, persona, and personality that helped define what it meant to be a good person and be a part of a healthy community. Through his children's show, Mr. Rogers would go on to inspire a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Won'tSummary: 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Burnat and Davidi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 956 BurnSummary: An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 921 IrisStrickland, Bill
Summary: Provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States through the stories of five students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 370 WaitSummary: In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2013
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 782 SearchSummary: This collector's set provides a diverse survey of Les Blank's vast output, including fourteen of his best-known works and eight related short films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2014