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6) Plutocrats
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 12 min., 21 sec)) : sound, color.
Description
Plutocrats, a term coined by Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who won the Lionel Gelber Prize, and an FT Best Book of the Year for her book carrying the same name, is a documentary that travels through a world increasingly paralyzed by joblessness, debt, and economic uncertainty. The film depicts a world where the wealth gap is now greater than it was in the Gilded Age, the age of the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. Shot in the Ukraine,...
7) Of the Land
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 29 min., 1 sec)) : sound, color.
Description
Of the Land is a detailed exploration into our current food supply as well as a variety of organic options available to people who want to support sustainable farming methods.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c1996
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (25 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
This program redefines fear stimuli and explores the fine line between fright and excitement. The rapid evolutionary modification of supposedly hard-wired responses to heights, enclosed spaces, and darkness by the demands of modern living is described, along with the new terrors that have taken their place. But parallel to the desire for safety is the desire for excitement. The risks people willingly take, such as driving recklessly fast, to assert...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c1996
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (25 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
In this program, the need for personal space is explored through the avoidance behaviors people employ to maintain a perceived distance from others, such as falling into a "middle-distance stare" in a crowded subway; the use of a proxy, like a jacket on a barstool, to reserve a place; the attitudes of drivers towards other cars on the road, which can lead to road rage; and the unconscious cooperation displayed in sharing public places. The phenomenon...
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (46 min., 52 sec)) : sound.
Description
After a series of chemical leaks and toxic exposures threaten the health and survival of predominantly Black communities, local activists in West Virginia and Florida draw attention to the growing environmental justice movement.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 30 min., 45 sec)) : sound.
Description
On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, a devastating firestorm engulfed the city of Paradise, California. This documentary, from Academy Award®-winning director Ron Howard and Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer, is a moving story of resilience in the face of tragedy, as a community ravaged by disaster comes together to recover what was lost and begin the important task of rebuilding.
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 25 sec)) : sound.
Description
A look at the controversy and community inspired by the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C., which came to be a transformative experience for many of the people who traveled from around the nation to participate.




