May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · DVDs—Documentaries
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
One day on Earth
April 29, 2013
[United States] : Docurama Films ; New York : Distributed by New Video, c2013.
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Audio specifications and special features from DVD menu.
"With music from Paul Simon, Sigur Ros, Rela Kuti, Cut Chemist & Beirut"--Container.
On 10.10.10, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students and other inspired citizens recorded the human experience over a 24-hour period and contributed their voices to a global day of media creation called One day on earth. It was the first ever simultaneous filming event occurring in every country in the world and it became a showcase of the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occur in one day.
Who killed Lindbergh's baby?
March 20, 2013
[United States] : PBS Distribution, c2013.
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally broadcast on PBS.
A reopening of one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques in an effort to determine what really happened to Charles Lindbergh's baby, and why.
Shelter me
February 21, 2013
[United States] : Virgil Films, [2013]
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Originally broadcast on PBS in 2012.
See the journey of two stray dogs, from the day they are picked up on the streets and brought to the shelter until the day they became a beloved family pet. Go inside a women's prison where inmates train shelter dogs to become service animals for people with disabilities. See how shelter pets are helping our returning war veterans cope with PTSD. This is a story of hope, redemption, helping others and making a difference.
Unfinished spaces
February 21, 2013
[United States] : PBS, c2013.
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: bonus footage with the directors and the architects.
Originally produced for television in 2011.
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana. Construction of their radical designs began immediately, and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians, and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of a Revolution quickly became reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later, the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and in decay. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. Features include intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists.
Soul food junkies
February 20, 2013
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS : Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2013.
1 videodisc (63 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2012.
Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
The men who built America
January 16, 2013
[United States] : Lionsgate, c2012.
3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally broadcast as a mini-series on the History channel.
disc 1. A new war begins ; Oil strike ; A rivalry is born ; bonus footage (135 min.) -- disc 2. Blood is spilled ; A new rival emerges ; Owning it all ; Bonus footage (135 min.) -- disc. 3. Taking the White House ; The new machine ; Bonus footage (90 min.).
Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
Wild horse, wild ride 100 days, 100 people, 100 mustangs
January 2, 2013
[United States] : Screen Media Films, 2012.
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Each year, through the Extreme Mustang Makeover Challenge, 100 people across the country attempt to tame a wild mustang in 100 days. Following this dangerous and harrowing feat performed by everyday people from every walk of life, is a public showcase that determines whether these horses will find homes beyond government corrals. Complete with first-hand footage and interviews, Wild Horse Wild Ride provides an in-depth look at the incredible relationship that blossoms between man and animal.
Jason Becker not dead yet
January 2, 2013
[United States] : Kino Lorber, c2012.
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
The year is 1989, and 19-year old Jason Becker from Richmond, California has just been offered the biggest rock guitar job on the planet. He's on the cover of every guitar magazine and is being hailed by critics as a genius and the next greatest rock guitarist in the world. Jason's dream will turn into a nightmare when he is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease and given just 3-5 years to live. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.
Ally McBeal exclusive bonus discs.
December 18, 2012
Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment : Sony Music Entertainment, 2009.
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc.
Title from container.
disc 2 (Sound disc): Searchin' my soul -- Something about you -- Chances are -- The wildest times of the world -- Sweet inspiration -- I know better (bonus track) -- You belong to me -- Hooked on a feeling -- I only want to be with you -- It's in his kiss (The shoop shoop song) -- Tell him -- Baby, don't you break my heart slow.
Features additional scenes from the television program Ally McBeal and a CD soundtrack of the music from the television series.
Detropia
December 14, 2012
[United States] : New Video, c2013.
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century: the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now, the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution.
How to survive a plague
December 14, 2012
New York, NY : IFC Films, c2013.
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Originally produced in 2012.
The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time.
Beauty is embarrassing the Wayne White story
December 14, 2012
[New York] : Docurama Films : Distributed by New Video, c2013.
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
For more than 30 years, Wayne White has made an indelible mark on the creative world. As a designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor and musician, White created images and ideas that are an integral, yet sometimes subconscious, part of the pop-culture lexicon. Part biography, part live performance; tell the irreverent and inspiring story of this one-of-a-kind visual artist and raconteur.
Bestiaire
December 14, 2012
Brooklyn, NY : KIMSTIM, Inc. : Zeitgeist Films, c2013.
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Bonus materials: Includes an exclusive video interview with director Denis Côté (in French, with English subtitles).
A meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observers and observed. Despite lack of a traditional narrative, there is dramatic tension in each exquisitely framed shot: a cage door under attack from a growling lion; the scurrying striped legs of zebras in a pen; the long stare of a bull, straight into camera.
5 broken cameras
December 14, 2012
[United States] : Kino Lorber, c2013.
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Guy Davidi and Burnat.
Planet of Snail
December 14, 2012
New York : Cinema Guild [distributor], 2012.
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Bonus features: Deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.
Young-Chan, an accomplished young poet, comes from the Planet of Snail. Dwellers of this tiny planet are deaf and blind, and call themselves "snails" because they rely on their tactile senses and communicating by touch. Young-Chan lives with his wife, Soon-Ho, who is his soul mate and window to the outside world. They rely on each other completely. Along with Young-Chan's personal writings, Yi Seung-jun captures life on what seems like another planet, where touch communicates everything and love conquers all.
The other dream team
December 11, 2012
[United States] : Lionsgate, c2013.
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: audio commentary ; screening Q&A.
Everyone knows Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan of the 1992 American Olympic Dream Team. This is the story of the Other Dream Team. They didn't bring their country the gold medal, they brought something much more valuable. After leading the USSR to a gold medal (and victory over the USA) at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis were poster boys for the Soviet sports machine. Four years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, they emerged as symbols of democracy.
Mansome
December 11, 2012
[United States] : Film Buff ; Orland Park, IL : MPI Media Group, 2012.
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.
Academy Award-nominated director Morgan Spurlock takes a hilarious look at the 21st century man's identity and how image consciousness, gender politics, and proper grooming have changed it. Features interviews with Judd Apatow, John Waters, and Paul Rudd on what it means to be a man in a world with a diverse definition of masculinity.
China heavyweight
December 11, 2012
[United States] : Zeitgeist Films, c2012.
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Profiles the ever-changing Chinese economic landscape through the view of the sport of boxing. Filmmaker Yung Chang follows boxing coach Qi Moxiang as he travels across China's Sichuan province recruiting young fighting talent from impoverished farms and villages. Selected boys and girls are taken to national training centers in hopes of becoming Olympic heroes, but can they leave their families behind to become boxing's finest?
Happy
December 11, 2012
Berns, Gregory
Metuchen, NJ : Passion River, 2012.
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
Features: director's commentary, featurettes.
Explores how a variety of cultures define happiness and being happy.
The imposter
December 11, 2012
Universal City, Calif. : Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment, c2012.
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: Making The imposter ; trailer ; unlock actual government cast files with QR code inside.
In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Spain. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child's return?
Three stars
December 11, 2012
[United States] : First Run Features, c2010.
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Through profiles of ten world-class chefs, viewers will learn about the everyday drama that accompanies working in gourmet restaurants. Includes interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of a world-renowned chef's culinary process, from working in gastronomic laboratories, hunting for ingredients in local markets, and gathering rare edible plants on coastal shores.
Hungry for change
December 11, 2012
[Thornleigh, NSW, Australia] : Permacology Productions; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2012.
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Bonus features include extended interviews and trailers.
From the creators of the best-selling documentary Food Matters comes another hard-hitting film certain to change everything you thought you know about food and nutrition. It exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industries don't want you to know about deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. Find out what's keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever.
Runaway slave
December 4, 2012
[United States] : Momo Bay-Gaiam, 2012.
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Rev. C.L. Bryant, a one-time NAACP local chapter president, argues that a perpetual state of welfare exists in the U.S. that creates a modern form of slavery for a large percentage of African Americans. Here, he journeys across America meeting with leading conservative pundits in an effort to find a way to free people from subsistence entitlements that have created this modern form of slavery.
Bully
December 4, 2012
Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2013.
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Videodisc release of the 2011 documentary film.
Title from container.
This is a character-driven documentary following five kids and families over the course of a school year. Offering insight into different facets of America's bullying crisis, the stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter, who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. Documentary provides an intimate and often shocking glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals' offices.
Searching for Sugar Man
December 4, 2012
[New York] : Sony Pictures Classics ; Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2013.
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: commentary with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; making Sugar Man; an evening with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; theatrical trailer.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
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