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1) The Universe
Description
It's time for a new look at a very old universe. In its mysteries, we are finding the secrets of our past and the key to our future. This is a history of how we know what we do about space. Fifty years have flown by since man first ventured into space.
2) The Imposter
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **SXSW Film Festival**.
3) Spellbound
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C. All work quite hard and practice daily, first having to win their regional championship before they can move on. Interviews include the parents and teachers who are working with them. The competitors not only work hard to get to the finals but face tremendous pressure as the original group...
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Type "The Angriest Man in the World" into any search engine, and one name appears -- Jack Rebney, a.k.a. "The Winnebago Man" -- an '80s RV salesman, whose hilarious, profanity-strewn, on-the-job meltdown was captured on video and passed around on VHS tapes, before exploding into an Internet phenomenon seen by millions. When a young filmmaker sets out on the seemingly impossible task of tracking down Rebney, who disappeared 20 years before, he finds...
5) Downloaded
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A documentary feature film about the rise and fall of Napster and the birth of the digital revolution. Winter first met Shawn Fanning in 2001 and spent many years with him and the other major players in this story before being able to bring it to the screen. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**.
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Jackson Pollock said, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker” and Clement Greenberg called him “a highly influential maverick and an independent genius.” Clyfford Still, one of the strongest, most original contributors to abstract expressionism, walked away from the commercial art world at the height of his career. Extremely disciplined, principled, and prolific, Still left behind a treasure...
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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EAST LAKE MEADOWS: A PUBLIC HOUSING STORY gives voice to some of the most marginalized people in our society and raises critical questions about how we have created concentrated poverty and limited housing opportunity for African Americans.
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers. Official Selection at **Venice Film Festival**, **Sundance Film Festival**, and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
10) Magnus
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This unique coming-of-age story follows Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
Pub. Date
1985.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In this groundbreaking cult documentary from 1985, director Kirby Dick (*This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Derrida*) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the (then) recently established discipline of sexual therapy. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped, and what emerges is a disarming and compassionate look at the struggles people face in connecting with one...
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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From acclaimed director Julie Sokolow (Woman on Fire, Aspie Seeks Love) and producer Danny Yourd (Blood Brother, Almost Holy), comes an awe-inspiring, riveting film which follows a writer with a fierce passion and love for nature as he embarks on a daring and harrowing journey to walk across the United States completely barefoot. With wit, energy, and a fierce independence, this film takes on an odyssey to a universal place that touches at our deepest...
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The inside story of Guatemalan teens forced to work against their will in Ohio. An investigation of labor trafficking exposes a criminal network that exploited undocumented minors, companies profiting from forced labor, and the US government’s role.
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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FRONTLINE investigates the rise and rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, including his vision for the future, his handling of dissent, his relationship with the US--and his ties to columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing.
15) Not a War Story
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Hollywood collides with a group of veterans tired of the typical PTSD and valor-portrayed films to make an original dark comedy zombie apocalypse movie, “Range 15."
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Growing up in a loving home, brothers Peter and Matthew are crazy about each other, but also constantly at each other’s throats. Displaying their individual idiosyncrasies—Peter is obsessed with the TV show Survivor, while younger brother Matthew struggles to overcome his intense fear of dogs—the brothers spend one formative summer in their suburban Maryland neighborhood. Ben Mullinkosson’s revealing and endearing film DON’T BE A DICK ABOUT...
17) When I Stutter
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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WHEN I STUTTER reveals the humanity that exists within people who stutter. Over the course of nearly 5 years, this documentary shares the stories of nineteen people who stutter that run the range of human emotion from despair to hopefulness to ultimately, triumph.
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The egg is perhaps nature’s most perfect life support system. Step by step as the egg hatches, host David Attenborough reveals the wonder behind these incredible miracles of nature.
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The Swamp explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America’s greatest wetland.
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Some 25 dead bodies have been found on Long Island since September of 2016. Dozens of immigrant teenagers are missing. Who is behind the wave of killings on Long Island - and is law enforcement's crackdown on suspected MS-13 gang members detaining the real culprits, or innocent teens?
