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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Explores the role documentary films play in communicating information about life and important issues with audiences. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
4) Walk with me
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Publication Date
©2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, 'Walk With Me' takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and captures the life of a monastic community who have given up all their possessions for one common purpose - to practice the art of mindfulness. Filmed over three years, this visceral film is a meditation on a community determined to develop a deep sense of presence, not just for themselves but for all those they love....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
503 pages. 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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'...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Hollywood darling River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she agrees to film a documentary about the picturesque small town of Moose Springs, Alaska. The assignment should have been easy, but the quirky locals want nothing to do with River...Easton Lockett may be a gentle giant, but he knows a thing or two about survival. If he can keep everyone in line, he should be able to get River and her...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her long-estranged father invites sixteen-year-old Liv Varanakis to help him film a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she looks forward to reconnecting but discovers he may have invited her to Greece for a very different reason.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
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
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 151 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The definitive documentary of America's pastime, baseball. Through a skillful blend of still photographs, film footage, interviews and voice overs, the the history of "The Game" is brought to life. Covering the period from the 1840's to 1994 (just before the strike), the high and low moments, heroes and villains are explored and examined, providing an in-depth, informative, and enthralling look at this truly American passion.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The definitive documentary of America's pastime, baseball. Through a skillful blend of still photographs, film footage, interviews and voice overs, the the history of "The Game" is brought to life. Covering the period from the 1840's to 1994 (just before the strike), the high and low moments, heroes and villains are explored and examined, providing an in-depth, informative, and enthralling look at this truly American passion.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The definitive documentary of America's pastime, baseball. Through a skillful blend of still photographs, film footage, interviews and voice overs, the the history of "The Game" is brought to life. Covering the period from the 1840's to 1994 (just before the strike), the high and low moments, heroes and villains are explored and examined, providing an in-depth, informative, and enthralling look at this truly American passion.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As her thirteenth birthday nears, Ana is very happily making a behind-the-scenes documentary at the zoo her parents run and delighted that her best friend, Liv, is visiting from New Zealand, but things start to fall apart when she brings her old and new friends together.
14) Let her lie
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Publication Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Facing the likely end of his career after a public misstep, a rising documentary filmmaker boldly decides to pursue the story of a serial killer who was captured before ending the life of a mysterious final victim.
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Childhood friends Ty and Burger plan to make a documentary and attend film school together, but Ty's hidden secret challenges their friendship as they navigate the aftermath of a global squirrel apocalypse.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
vii, 296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Homebody Lex McCall loves her sleepy Vermont town and quiet bookstore job. When the bookshop owner, eager to off-load the supposedly haunted building, offers to sell the store to Lex at an unbeatable price, Lex jumps at the chance to further put down roots. Then handsome stranger James stops by the bookstore. Lex assumes he's just another tourist passing through, but it turns out he's part of a ghost-hunting documentary crew that's looking into the...
19) The do-over
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Career-driven McKenna Keaton has devoted her life to attaining a senior partnership at her law firm. So asking a man on a date should be nothing. But the past four days have been the worst of her life and have called everything she thought she knew about herself into question. Besides, she can't remember her last real date--one that didn t involve using a blind date as an opportunity to get a stranger's perspective on effective cross-examination...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The amazing story of Joey and Rory Feek. Intimately filmed by the couple over a course of two and a half years. This documentary follows this beautiful couple through the birth of their daughter, and even shows Joey's struggle and ultimate surrender to cancer. However, they never lose hope. A love story for the ages.

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