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3) 10 mph
Publisher
Spinning Blue
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
10 MPH is a comical documentary that follows Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell as they quit soul-numbing job and turn a friend's ludicrous idea into a movie.
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
These three 20- minute videos examine key constitutional concepts. The first explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution. The second describes the protection of individual rights by highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The last explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case of Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take...
5) Unguarded
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A gifted athlete from Fall River, Massachusetts, Chris Herren was a basketball legend before he left high school. After a troubled yet outstanding career at Fresno State, he would eventually fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics, only to lose it all to a devastating addiction that nearly killed him. Award-winning director Jonathan Hock chronicles this powerful story of Herren's fall, rise, and redemption.
6) Ted Williams
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A complex and entertaining portrait of Ted Williams who was as obsessive as he was talented, the documentary reveals his complicated relationships with family and friends and explores the impact he has had on the current generation of MLB stars. Features Bob Costas, Wade Boggs, Roger Angell and Joey Votto. Narrated by Jon Hamm.
7) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A love letter to an amazing era in film. A cast of pioneering writers, directors, and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. Featuring Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, and more.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1860, the nation founded upon an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness had as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners and almost four million slaves. By denying these rights to more than twelve percent of its population, America would soon pay with the blood of a generation. The story of African Slavery in America started with the first permanent...
11) The Mormons
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In this revealing American Experience/Frontline co-production, dig deep into the Mormon past to understand the church today, and how they are finally confronting its history of what is fact and what is fiction.
14) The Civil War
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive documentary on the causes, battles, and consequences of the Civil War, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, using archival photos, and on-site film from battlefield parks.
15) Spellbound
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin's unfinished book, Remember this house. Intended as an account of the lives of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr., each of whom James Baldwin personally knew, only a 30-page manuscript of the book was ever completed. Combining Baldwin's manuscript with footage of depictions of African-Americans throughout American history, I am not your negro uses Baldwin's words...
17) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Documents the history of the Prohibition, from 1920, when, after a century of debate, the United States outlaws the manufacture and sale of alcohol, to the early 1930s when the amendment is repealed.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Discusses changes in the media industry that affect journalism in the early twenty-first century, examines the inner workings of the Media Desk at the "New York Times," and describes the challenges journalists face in their efforts to deliver fact-based, original reporting.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the painful void caused by her husband's death, Audrey invites...
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