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6481) A prison on Earth: 17
Publisher
World Wide Multi Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the shadows of other dimensions, there lays a nefarious force waging war upon humans for millennia from the space between spaces--a dark force that governs not just our thoughts and actions but our very souls. The very advent of time began the slave master hierarchy between us and those unseen forces behind our every action and thought. They built and created 'rules' and systems of thought, created kingdoms and spawned religions used to rule the...
6482) Factory to the workers
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Croatia in 2005, a machine tools factory was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have operated collectively, becoming the only successful example of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they seek a new model of collective ownership, the internal workings of the factory clash with the forces of the globalized market economy, having an increasingly brutal impact on wages and the organization of the factory. A decade later,...
6483) One day on Earth
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
On 10-10-10, across the world, documentary filmmakers, students and other inspired citizens recorded the human experience over a 24-hour period and contributed their voices to a global day of media creation called One day on Earth. Over 3,000 hours of footage were filmed. It was the first ever simultaneous filming event occurring in every country in the world. Depicts the diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occur in one day.
6484) Euphoria
Publisher
Celebrity Video Distribution
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Euphoria begins by asking: In a country built for the pursuit of happiness, is it working? Are you happy? Lee Boot defines the American Dream as emotional survival. He travels around America invading lives, using improbable props, and forming his own language of non-stop visual metaphor. Listen to real people and learn how their lives were transformed when pursuing what was meaningful to them.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Working in the photo-chemical era, the filmmakers of "Ghostbusters" needed ingenuity and innovation to create the iconic scenes which inadvertently changed the film industry forever.
Publisher
Exodus Cry
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (9 pages ; 22 cm)
Language
English
Description
A peek between the glossy surface of sophisticated 21st-century society reveals a chilling revelation--the enslavement of more than 27 million people worldwide. Look deeper still and you will uncover an industry that brutalizes and debases these individuals, many of them young girls, through sex slavery. Finally, you come face to face with the manifold atrocities surrounding the industry, from the deceptive recruitment and kidnapping of the victims...
Publisher
Passport International Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the dawn of rock and roll and the cultural phenomenon surrounding it, featuring interviews with Little Richard, Sam Phillips, Bo Diddley, Mac Davis, Glen Campbell, Ray Manzarek and others, as well as performances by Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Ricky Nelson, The Treniers, and The Moonglows.
6488) Peter Elbow on writing
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 43 min.)
Language
English
Description
Peter Elbow talks directly to students about the process of writing. Beginning with his own early difficulties with writing as a college student, Elbow provides insights into how one can work through writing problems. Full of detailed instruction and specific skills to aid in writing, this video guides its audience from the initial stages of freewriting to the final stages of the revising process. Useful for students and teachers alike, Peter Elbow...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What makes a person walk into a theater or a church or a classroom full of students and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels a human being to commit the most inhuman of crimes? Can science in any way help us understand these horrific events and provide any clues as to how to prevent them in the future? As the nation tries to understand the tragic events at Newtown, NOVA correspondent Miles O'Brien separates fact from fiction, investigating...
6490) No Strangers Here
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
No Strangers Here is a fictionalised account of a family of "new Australians" arriving in their new home town. The family (mum, dad, girl and boy) are displaced persons from Northern and Eastern Europe. Produced for the Department of Immigration during the migrant boom that followed World War Two, the film's essential message is "We want them. We need them". It presents an idealised Australia, "a happy, smiling land" where people are generally friendly...
6491) Eugene Onegin
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (199 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Eugene Onegin has often been referred to as an encyclopedia of 19th century Russian life. Rimas Tuminas' reimagining unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin's characters. The images are split between past and present, between reality and imagination.The scale of the production constantly shifts from noisy celebrations to secluded contemplation, from crowd scenes to lonely recollections, all of which are drawn together from the past just like...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Liberty explores the deep connections in a circle of lesbian friends as they face death and celebrate life and love. Viewers say Liberty has documented the meaning of community with rare grace and wit. It is not a wimpy, weepy tale by a mile, but a keen celebration of family values. Liberty demystifies death, dispels misinformation about age and sexual orientation, and reminds us how rich life is, even in the shadow of death. Part One: Death to Life...
6493) The eye: Stuart Brisley
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 27 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Stuart Brisley is perhaps best-known for his disturbing physical performances which pushed his body to extremes. But his work as an artist over four decades has embraced sculpture and installation, films and fictions, large-scale participatory projects and, most recently, the Web. Illustrated with archive footage and photographs, this profile of the artist explores his understandings of collaboration and community, of politics and the market, of humour...
6494) Yorky Billy
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 17 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
At Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the Northern Territory, an area soon to be irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining, 80-year-old William Alderson (known as "Yorky Billy") reflects on his life in the outback. His father was an Englishman from Yorkshire (hence Yorky's nickname) who spent 45 years in Australia and "tried everything" - working as a prospector, a railway worker, drover and buffalo hunter. After only 3 years of school, his only son, Yorky, worked...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 30 min.)
Language
English
Description
Based on the popular and provocative book, Seeing Through Maps, this program provides a fascinating 30-minute exploration into the minds of twelve mapmakers and how their unique backgrounds, philosophies, values, and politics led each to select a particular mathematical formula to create their maps. Learn about the impact those world images have had on us, consciously and unconsciously. An invaluable resource for classes dealing with issues of cultural...
6496) Lads & Jockeys
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- flirting, cell phones and PlayStation -- they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 41 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Directed by renowned Canadian filmmaker, Ron Mann, it features a reunion concert with the original 5 members i.e. Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Anderson! Also includes twelve historic performances; an appreciation written by Paul Quarrington; two brand new songs; and even burning Snowmen!
Publisher
Michelle Aguilar
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
El Cacao exposes the dark side of chocolate production in Latin America by examining the economics of Fair Trade from the point of view of the indigenous farmers as they attempt to sustain their community through the growth, harvest, and trade of cacao beans in the global market. This 20-minute documentary film highlights the life of an indigenous Ngabe farmer in Panama and his unconditional devotion to this so-called "superfood." The film threads...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 32 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Action League Grannies have been spied on by the California National Guard. They've been written about in Time magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News. They've appeared on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart's Comedy Central, and are regulars in Bay Area evening news stories. In public, they've been both booed and cheered, but they continue to protest with a sense of outrage, a sense of humor, and a commitment...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Shot over a seven year period, The Marion Lake Story tells the compelling story of how a community on the east end of Long Island, N.Y. came together to clear their lake of the highly invasive phragmite reed. They educated themselves, raised money, hired laborers, and eventually got out to "weed the communal garden." Years later, a bio-diverse habitat for native birds, plants and rare turtles is returning; and the phragmite reed is in retreat. Human...
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