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The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history--a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a last, desperate attempt to prove...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades later, as Tanya slipped from the spotlight, rising Americana music star Brandi Carlile took it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history. This documentary follows Tanya's richly creative, utterly captivating,...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other esteemed cast members across all eight Harry Potter films as they travel back to Hogwarts for the first time to celebrate the anniversary of the franchise's first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which premiered twenty years ago. The retrospective special will tell an enchanting making-of story through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender health study conducted at UCLA in the 1960s. Her clever use of the study to gain access to gender-affirming healthcare led to her status as a fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history. In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt uses Agnes's story, along with others unearthed in long-shelved case...
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Kamera Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Fans of the genre will enjoy a history of the art form and additional interviews with industry insiders and award-winning filmmakers who contribute their tips, tricks, and advice. Aspiring filmmakers will find advice covering the whole production process--from developing a concept to marketing and distribution. This edition has up-to-the-moment technical information on the latest cameras and equipment and a fully updated resource guide with contact...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A woman caught between ruling a nation, duty, and family, and how she has led a monarchy through some of the greatest changes in modern history. A woman who never chose her life, but who has become the world's longest-ever serving Queen.
Publisher
Family Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This Discovery Channel documentary uses computer generated images to tell the story of how the reptiles roamed the Earth 80 million years ago. Several noted dinosaur experts join narrator Christian Slater in this educational program.
Publisher
Juno Films Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Weird Al Yankovic, is a biographical doc about a musician who is not only well known for hits such as Tip Toe Through The Tulips but for his trail-blazing personae that paved the way for other rock stars such as David Bowie, Prince, Iggy Pop, and Boy George. An outcast from a young age, Herbert Khary's rise to stardom as Tiny Tim is the ultimate fairytale. Considered a freak by many of his peers, Tiny Tim left no one unaffected. His wedding...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Gold pulls back the curtain on the perceived superficiality of Los Angeles to show viewers a genuine and vibrant world where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic doorway to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling a conflict that has spanned more than a decade and bridged generations, delivers a comprehensive 360-degree view of a complex war, from its swift and relentless beginnings to the eve of the U.S. pullout in 2014. Raw footage of combat, rare photos and intimate firsthand accounts capture all angles of the war from the soldiers2 viewpoint and offer an in-depth perspective never before seen by the American public.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In retrospect, it is difficult to imagine how a political party as fundamentaly evil as the Nazis ever came to power. This six-part documentary explores the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, and uncovers the truth behind the atrocities.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Did the fabled Atlantis really exist? Plato told of an advanced civilization full of natural resources, palaces of gold, exotic animals, and even a form of electricity. But according to legend, Atlantis disappeared into the ocean in a cataclysmic event of nuclear proportions, its secrets buried with it. For 10,000 years, explorers have tried to find the lost continent, buried under thousands of years of time, sand, and water.
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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'...
16) American eagle
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Unique to North America, the bald eagle is the continent's most recognizable aerial predator, with a shocking white head, electric yellow beak, and penetrating eyes. In the 1960s, this symbol of the United States became an emblem of environmental degradation. Following their protection as an endangered species, bald eagles have come roaring back.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening harder: Edgy, smart, and raunchier than ever, director Kevin Smith returns with his wildly irreverent and uproarious tour footage from London and Toronto.
An evening with Kevin Smith: One of Hollywood's most gifted filmmakers, Kevin Smith, shares his stories, opinions, and humor in this no-holds-barred Q & A held on university campuses. Infamous for picking apart the pop culture landscape, the New Jersey native...
19) Stone reader
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of one man's passionate search to solve a literary mystery. In 1972, Mark Moskowitz bought a copy of The stones of summer by Dow Mossman but couldn't get past the first few pages. Twenty-five years later, he tried again and fell in love with the book. Looking for other books by the author, he found no mention of Mossman or his novel. Moskowitz then travels the country on a quest to discover how such a well-received book vanished...
Publisher
Capitol
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the first part of the Beatles' career, the period in which they toured and captured the world's acclaim. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr formed their band in 1962, stormed Europe in 1963, and in 1964 they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever, and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording...
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