![The September issue [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/50574@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A behind-the-scenes look at Vogue magazine (U.S.) as editor-and-chief Anna Wintour and her staff prepare the September 2007 issue.
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Call #: DVD 741.6 SEP
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![Restrepo [DVD] : one platoon, one valley, one year](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/51392@2x.jpg)
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Summary: This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was...
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Call #: DVD 958.104 RES
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![Kedi [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/177538@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the...
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Call #: DVD 636.8 KED
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![The Dawn Wall [DVD]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Summary: In January, 2015, American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson captivated the world with their effort to climb the Dawn Wall, a seemingly impossible 3,000 foot rock face in Yosemite...
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Call #: DVD 796.522 DAW
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![The human experience [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55936@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The story of a band of brothers who travel the world in search of the answers to the burning questions: Who am I? Who is Man? Why do we search for meaning? Their journey brings them into the middle...
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Call #: DVD 170 HUM
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![I am [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63184@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the...
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Call #: DVD 170.44 I
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![How to die in Oregon [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/64043@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Since then, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. Filmmaker Peter Richardson gently...
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Call #: DVD 179.7 HOW
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![Expelled [DVD] : no intelligence allowed](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/40367@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Ben Stein travels the world on a quest to learn an awe-inspiring truth - that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure, and even fired for merely believing that there might be...
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Call #: DVD 231.765 EXP
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Summary: "Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic...
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Call #: DVD 291.44 MAN
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![A brave heart [DVD] : the Lizzie Velasquez story](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/178311@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Chronicles the life and experiences of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Velasquez, from getting bullied in school and later online, to her multi-million-viewed TED talk, her work as a motivational speaker and as a lobbyist for the first federal anti-bullying bill.
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Call #: DVD 302.3 BRA
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![Catfish [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/59610@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Yaniv (Nev). They had no idea that their project would lead to the...
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Call #: DVD 302.3 CAT
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![Fast, cheap & out of control [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/110771@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Acclaimed filmmaker Errol Morris paints a fascinating portrait of four obsessed eccentrics. Morris weaves interviews with a wild animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot designer and an expert on...
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Call #: DVD 302.54 FAS
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![Where to invade next [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/153067@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal,...
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Call #: DVD 303.4 WHE
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![Love thy nature [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/166199@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Examines the interconnectivity between human beings and the natural world. Discusses ways in which the increasing estrangement from nature, brought on by modern lifestyles, is proving harmful both to...
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Call #: DVD 304.2 LOV
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![The 11th hour [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/33866@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
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Call #: DVD 304.28 ELE
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![Watchers of the sky [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/127774@2x.jpg)
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Summary: With his provocative question, 'why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?' Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one...
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Call #: DVD 304.6 WAT
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![The interrupters [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/64529@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who, with bravado, humility, and even humor, try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. Shot over...
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Call #: DVD 306 INT
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![God loves Uganda [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/106369@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Examines the role played by the American evangelical movement and the International House of Prayer megachurch in the state-sanctioned persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.
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Call #: DVD 306.766 GOD
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![Paris is burning [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/214611@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx...
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Call #: DVD 306.778 PAR
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![I am not your Negro [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/229852@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, "Remember This House," this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends -- Medgar Evers, Malcolm X...
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Call #: DVD 323.1196 I
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![The Yes Men [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/49281@2x.jpg)
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Summary: With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political...
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Call #: DVD 324.4 YES
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![Weiner [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/156255@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.
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Call #: DVD 328.73 WEI
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![Inequality for all [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109844@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality in the United States.
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Call #: DVD 330 INE
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![American dream [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109833@2x.jpg)
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Summary: American dream: After President Ronald Regan broke the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981, American corporations declared open season on organized labor. This Academy Award winner for best...
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Call #: DVD 331.89 AME
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![A fierce green fire [DVD] : the battle for a living planet](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/176476@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought, and succeeded, against enormous odds.
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Call #: DVD 333.72 FIE
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![The queen of Versailles [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68019@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose...
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Call #: DVD 338 QUE
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![Food, Inc. [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/45055@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of...
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Call #: DVD 338.19 FOO
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![Inside job [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54450@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great...
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Call #: DVD 338.542 INS
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![Minimalism [DVD] : a documentary about the important things](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182563@2x.jpg)
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Summary: How might your life be better with less? Minimalism examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life -- families, entrepreneurs,...
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![Bridegroom [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100598@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Shane Bitney Crone's plans to marry Tom Bridegroom in California after the same-sex marriage law is passed takes a tragic turn when his partner of six years is killed and his family refuses him from attending the funeral.
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Call #: DVD 346.73 BRI
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![Hot coffee [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109843@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Analyzes and discusses so called "frivolous law suits" and the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system. Discusses several cases and relates each to tort reform in the U.S.: Liebeck...
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Call #: DVD 346.73 HOT
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![Dirty wars [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/103817@2x.jpg)
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Summary: It's the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. The rules of the game and of engagement have fundamentally changed. Today drone strikes, night raids,...
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Call #: DVD 355.3 DIR
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![Sicko [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/30424@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize...
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Call #: DVD 362.1 SIC
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![Blood brother [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/104241@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Rocky went to India as a disillusioned tourist with no close family of his own. When he met a group of children with HIV, he decided to stay and devote his life to them. To the children, he becomes...
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Call #: DVD 362.19697 BLO
Location: Adult Displays - Checkout Desk Right
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![Twinsters [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/146349@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Identical twins born in Korea--one adopted by a family in the U.S., the other by a family in France--find each other by accident on Facebook and are reunited after 25 years of separation.
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Call #: DVD 362.734 TWI
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![The hunting ground [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/143851@2x.jpg)
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Summary: From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Kirby Dick, and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer Amy Ziering comes a startling expose of sexual assault on US...
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Call #: DVD 362.883 HUN
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![Command and control [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/174479@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first...
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Call #: DVD 363.1799 COM
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![Say her name [DVD] : the life and death of Sandra Bland](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/230047@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An investigation into the disputed cause of death of black activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody in Waller County, Texas, after a routine traffic stop by state trooper Brian Encinia.
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Call #: DVD 363.2 SAY
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![Cartel land [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/149344@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In the Mexican state of Michoacan Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile,...
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Call #: DVD 363.45 CAR
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![The house I live in [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109648@2x.jpg)
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Summary: For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer,...
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Call #: DVD 363.45 HOU
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