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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Documentaries play a vital role in our world. They educate, inform, and inspire. These films promote awareness of ongoing problems and issues. Explore how filmmakers use documentaries to appeal to audiences and bring attention to important issues around the world. This nonfiction book includes important text features such as a glossary, index, and table of contents to engage students in reading as they build their comprehension, vocabulary, and literacy...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. 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
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.
Author
Series
Moose Springs Alaska volume 3
Language
English
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...
6) Walk with me
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. 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
Scribner
Pub. 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
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The individuals on the front lines for the rich, famous, and powerful. These individuals deal with violence, stalkers, isolation, and potential loss of life every single day.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join host Tim Sisarich as he consults with experts around the globe to explore this fascinating subject in a documentary and panel discussion that will discuss views on family and its role in society.
10) Love & olives
Author
Series
Love and gelato volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. 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.
11) The do-over
Author
Pub. 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...
12) Puppy party
Publisher
LongNeedle Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Over 25 breeds--hundreds of adorable puppies. Incredible facts about each breed--hilarious puppy antics.
14) Let her lie
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. 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.
15) Buddy
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
In this delightful documentary about six amazing dogs and their heroic owners, legendary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann explores the close bond between animal and human.
Publisher
Plow Productions
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Note by Note is an independent feature length documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037 from forest floor to concert hall. It explores the relationship between musician and instrument, chronicles the manufacturing process, and illustrates what makes each Steinway unique in this age of mass production. From the factory floor in Queens to Steinway Hall in Manhattan, each piano's journey is complex - spanning 12 months,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
Publisher
Opal Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since 1780 the Wallenda family has been a traveling circus troupe of acrobats, jugglers, clowns, and animal trainers. Throughout the 20th century, they were famed for their wire walking and flying trapeze. Now, in the 21st century, The Wallendas face diminishing audiences, a collapsing business model, and a vanishing way of life.
Author
Series
Pelican Harbor volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Police Chief Jane Hardy is still reeling from the scandal that rocked her small-town department just as she took over for her retired father - the man who wrecked her life with one little lie. Now she's finally been reunited with her presumed-dead fifteen-year-old son, Will, and his father, documentarian Reid Bechtol. When a murder aboard the oil platform Zeus exposes an environmental terrorist's plot to flood Mobile Bay with crude oil, Jane and...
Series
Beyond the book volume 2
Publisher
The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, tpt MN
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (27 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Winter bees and other poems of the cold summons forth the charms and dictates of winter.