Freestyle Digital Media
1) Head To Head
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Six women facing hair loss struggle to choose whether to try to blend in, or live outside the norms of beauty.
3) The PROcess
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This documentary focuses on athletes and their families, as they go on the journey of trying to make it to that level.
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Calling All Earthlings explores the Integratron, an electro-magnetic desert dome. Inspired by E.T.'s and Tesla, the dome would unbridle time and energy. The FBI tries to squash those who gather in the desert to declare: "the sky is not the limit."
7) Classic
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Since 1917, the small city of Nenana has been home to one of Alaska's largest traditions. Every year, residents come together to pull off the Nenana Ice Classic, a charitable guessing game that challenges any player to predict, at $2.50 a guess, the exact minute the ice on the Tanana River will break up. Beyond the city limits, luck-pushers and competitive gamblers see the Ice Classic as a means to make small dreams come true. As the tradition has...
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. From her earliest years, when Jessica Bair was being raised as a boy named Jonathan, she knew she was a girl. But born into the Mormon church, she also knew that saying so out loud could cause her to lose everything her family, her faith, her life on earth, and her eternal soul. Terrified to reveal her true self, young Jessica / Jonathan instead set about creating the perfect life of a young Mormon man, becoming a missionary, marrying young,...
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A brilliant telecommunications inventor was held down by corporate greed and government monopolies and ended up so desperate to provide for his family he ended up working for the mafia; creating the infamous 'black box.' His unimaginable decline led his son to turn to life of crime to become the world's most notorious jewel thief.
10) Ulam: main dish
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R."Could it be that Filipino food, the underdog of Asian cuisines, is having its moment at last?" THE NEW YORK TIMES In this delicious new documentary, Filipino-American filmmaker Alexandra Cuerdo answers this question and follows the rise of Filipino food via the award-winning chefs crossing over to the center of the American table. ULAM: Main Dish stages this new culinary movement as not only a remarkable achievement for American restaurateurs...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A feature-length documentary about the miraculous journey of Salvadoran immigrant Laz Ayala's life or death path to U.S. citizenship, the challenges of present-day immigration, and his mission to humanize immigrants and reform immigration for the benefit of all.
12) Batman and me
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2022.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Darren Maxwell became addicted to collecting Batman merchandise in late 1980s Australia as a way to be a part of nascent geek culture. Decades later, Darren's stuck with a room full of collectables, an identity he no longer recognizes. Yet a supportive partner, a fanboy best friend and a persistent need to belong mean he's unable to let go.
13) Hendrie
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2024.
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hendrie is a feature documentary on the legendary talk-radio comic legend Phil Hendrie with a particular focus on The Phil Hendrie Show, which existed from 1990 to 2006 in various markets. The film chronicles the life of a radio personality that dared to satirize the very medium he was part of, using a distinct and innovative method that hasn't been attempted before or since. Some of the funniest and most interesting names in show business weigh...
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NECESSITY traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America. Front line communities--Native Peoples and communities of color--suffer the most immediate and severe consequences of the climate crisis: impacts on physical and mental health as well as territorial desecration and displacement. Yet with painful histories have come deep insights,...
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Sharkwater Extinction is a thrilling, action adventure journey that follows filmmaker Rob Stewart as he exposes the billion dollar illegal shark fin industry and the political corruption behind it. This is Stewart's third film following his multi-award-winning features, Sharkwater and Revolution. Sharkwater Extinction dives into the often violent underworld of the pirate fishing trade. Shark finning is still rampant, shark fin soup is still being...
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Our story starts over a decade ago in a tiny village on the coast of El Salvador. When faced with the tough decision of leaving their poverty-stricken violent country in search of a brighter future, two youngsters decided to buck the trend. They would stay, standing up to the challenges of their land with the dream of building a better future for their community. Years of efforts bringing education and opportunity to the local children led...
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. An artist/activist dares to shock the world about the environmental impact of its over-consumption by creating a sprawling art museum in the middle of one of the most toxic places on earth, a fiery e-waste dump in Ghana, Africa.
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[2024]
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. A rock band with a propensity to create their own adventures attempts to bring a mandolin Guinness World Record from India to their hometown in Greenville, South Carolina. Acting simultaneously as bandmates, record-breakers, entertainers, and filmmakers the band Brother Oliver and their crew spend a year preparing for and executing an attempt to bring down a record that had stood for 5 years prior. Along the way, they discover it's far...
20) Disorder
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Thrust back into society with PTSD, Ryan, Amber, and Stuart try to cope as civilians outside a war zone.