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1) Religulous
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Comedian and TV host Bill Maher takes a pilgrimage across the globe on a mind-opening journey into the ultimate taboo: questioning religion. Meeting the high and low from different religions, Maher asks questions, like 'Why is faith good?' and more
2) Apollo 11
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Featuring never-before-seen footage in its highest resolution, APOLLO 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission that first put men on the moon. Winner of Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Winner of five Critics' Choice Documentary Awards including Best...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, who speak about their lived experience with mental health challenges, from depression to addiction to suicide ideation.
Publisher
Sebastian Copeland Productions
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"The film follows noted environmental advocate, photographer and polar traveler Sebastian Copeland through his intensive training before embarking on the two-month, 400+ mile trip on foot across the frozen ice cap with his partner Keith Heger. From personal reflections to last minute preparations, the story shifts when the two men are dropped onto the ice, faced with temperatures in excess of -50F degrees, alone for milions of square miles, and armed...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world, with glowing reviews, global press, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run, the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of a historic event. This fascinating documentary is a unique opportunity to discover what goes on behind the scenes at exhibitions of this scale,...
6) Honeyland
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
"Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for her solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping, while disregarding her advice"--Container.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winning filmmakers expose the forces that are leading our planet to its next mass extinction, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. A never-before-seen view of an international wildlife trade, operating in the shadows, reveals how creatures that have survived for millions of years may be wiped from Earth in our lifetime.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it.
10) The booksellers
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. Official Selection at the **The New York Film Festival**.
11) Assassins
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The audacious murder of the brother of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in a crowded Malaysian airport sparks a worldwide media frenzy. At the center of the investigation are two young women who are either cold-blooded killers or unwitting pawns. ASSASSINS goes beyond the headlines to question every angle of this case, from human trafficking to geopolitical espionage to the secretive dynamics of the North Korean dynasty.
12) Which way home
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Español
Description
A feature documentary that follows unaccompanied child migrants on their journey through Mexico as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, 9-year old Hondurans, who are trying to reach their parents in the US. Children like Jose, a 10-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and Kevin, a streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough has a remarkable treasure trove of stories following his 60-year career with the BBC. This 3-part series will bring to life some of his most memorable. Also includes: The Ark, David Attenborough chooses ten of the most important, and lesser known, animals he would most like to save from extinction
14) Dark money
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that "political spending is a form of protected...
15) The cove
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 1 hr. 36 min.) : sd., col. w/ b&w seq. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan is a highly guarded secret. During the night, Taiji fishermen engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The work is so horrifying, the fishermen will stop at nothing to keep it hidden from the outside world. When a team of elite activists, filmmakers, and free-divers embark on a secret mission to penetrate their cover, the shocking discoveries they find there are just the tip of the iceberg. Includes...
16) The 11th hour
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity
17) Fresh
Publisher
Ripple Effect Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball
18) Dark horse
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a former mining village in Wales, an inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the ultimate detective story: the creation of the universe. Go on a cosmic ride, from the Big Bang 15 billion years ago, to the frontiers of science today. The program also takes viewers around the world, visiting with today's great thinkers, including physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winners Murray Gell-Mann and Steven Weinberg. From quarks to quasars, the scientists explore a host of provocative ideas.
20) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight...
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