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English
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Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful,...
Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This fascinating program explores the romantic history of the clans through tours of the castles that have witnessed centuries of war and tribal treachery. Legends of fairies, secret rooms and ghosts enliven the history of a brave people.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Combining original recordings of soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War with archival newsreel footage, CENSORED VOICES is a stark reminder of how far the region remains from the peace for which they long. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of Best Documentary at the Awards...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Ocean explorers Howard and Michele Hall turn their love for the ocean and their concern for the future of the world's coral reefs into action. With Jean-Michel Cousteau, deep reef scientist Richard Pyle and Fijian diver Rusi Vulakoro, the Halls explore and capture on film the dazzling underwater world of coral reefs, magical places here on earth."--Container.
8) Full circle
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Michael Palin's fascinating journey around the 18 countries on the Pacific Rim.
9) Black death
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores the plague of the 14th century, its origins and attempted cures, and looks at the possibility of a modern day plague.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world. The origin of great literature, fine art, and modern government, it was also the first Christian empire. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks, Venice.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, they performed miraculously technical brain surgery, built modern irrigation canals, made agricultural discoveries still used by modern man, and were master builders...the Incas were mysterious people, once ruling half of South America.
12) Paper clips
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee attempt to collect 6 million paper clips as part of a school project on the Holocaust.
13) Matisse/Picasso
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c[2008]
Language
English
Description
An encounter with the two pioneers, who opened new frontiers. In spite of their initial rivalry and their very different temperaments, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal. Includes footage, photos, and examples of their work.
14) Ghosts of Rwanda
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Examines the massacre of Rwandans through interviews with government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors of the slaughter.
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian immigrant who committed the greatest little-known art theft in history. For more than 30 years, writer/director Joe Medeiros was obsessed with finding out Peruggia's true motive. So with the help of researchers, art experts and Celestina Peruggia's children Silvio and Graziella, Medeiros and his team embarked on an epic journey leading them to the Louvre, to Peruggia's hiding place in Paris, to Florence....
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
18) The reckoning
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lamar dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but when his grandfather is killed in a racist act of violence, Lamar becomes determined to honor his legacy by documenting the fight for justice.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
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