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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Even with claims of a new 'post-truth' era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more nonfiction movies are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating and compounding our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. How did this happen? Providing answers, Screening Reality is a widescreen view of the rarely examined relationship between nonfiction movies and American history--how 'reality'...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Independent journalists like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbi are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Cameras follow as they expose government and corporate deception; just as the ground-breaking independent journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The film considers the unparalleled stretch of violence during the 20th century as a single, unrelenting 'war of the world' that began with Japan's invasion of Russia in 1904 and continued through the Korean War all the way to an ongoing 'Third Word's War'"--Container.
Publisher
Estudios Xystus
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Español
Description
Explores the intimate details of the life of Frida Kahlo, using rare, never-before seen footage, family interviews, and photographs. Includes interviews with Amando Almazán, Olivier Debroise, Teresa Del Conde, Arturo García Bustos, Hayden Herrera, Cristina Kahlo, Ana C. Treviño "Bambi", and Martha Zamoro. This documentary explores Kahlo's turbulent relationship with Deigo Rivera, her lesbian affairs, and her mastering of the art that depicted her...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Language
English
Description
Three years of shooting were needed by five teams in order to follow bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to another, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.
10) Blind spot
Publisher
Indie Blitz
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This is a documentary that investigates the causes behind the current crisis we find ourselves in. It establishes the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the effect it has had on our environment.
11) Inside Mecca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The most intimate and three-dimensional documentation of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. "Inside Mecca" follows three Muslims from very different backgrounds as they embark on an epic five-day reaffirmation of faith and quest for salvation. Witness the personal stories of the pilgrims and the mental preparation, physical strain and spiritual ecstasy they encounter on their pilgrimage of faith.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after he left office, Ronald Reagan's place among the most important presidents in American history is secure ... from his first forays into politics to the ongoing debate over his place in history. Draws on a series of interviews with family, administrative insiders and world political leaders.
15) This is a moose
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Director Billy Waddler is trying to film a documentary about moose, but the moose in question has no intention of spending his life in the woods and his animal friends, who have dreams of their own, help him prove his point.
17) Love & olives
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her long-estranged father invites sixteen-year-old Liv Varanakis to help him film a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she looks forward to reconnecting but discovers he may have invited her to Greece for a very different reason.
18) Sherman's March
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this autobiographical documentary, Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary film about the lingering effects of General Sherman's destructive march through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuclear holocaust, and Burt Reynolds.
Author
Series
Nina Reilly novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Twelve years ago, a young girl disappeared. Now a filmmaker has made a movie about it. The girl's parents call it invasion of privacy. A woman lawyer calls it murder.
The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe court. Her...
The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe court. Her...
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