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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang's This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action--feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. The process of translating raw experience into incisive and passionate dispatches requires the...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young New York journalist Emma Gardner returns to the idyllic Central California farming community where she was raised, only to find it has been ravaged by drought and has become a place ruled by gangs, violent threats, and greed. She is forced to investigate the suspicious circumstances of her father's death even though it puts her in great danger.
3) Still here
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Christian Baker, a young New York journalist from The Chronicle, gets assigned to a social story about the disappearance of Monique Watson, a twelve-year-old African-American girl from Brooklyn. Trying to get the assignment behind, he quickly and poorly researches the story and goes with the first lead. This brings down a series of pains. Christian with guilt decides to finally do his work properly finding himself in a race against time to help the...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tony-winning playwright and director James Lapine befriends Rose Styron, the widow of the great American novelist William Styron (Sophie₂s Choice). Rose shares the fascinating story of her complex life as a poet, journalist, human rights activist, life partner to William, and friend of the Kennedys and Clintons.
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At a time when the free press is under threat, OBIT. takes a rare look inside one of the United States' foremost journalistic institutions, The New York Times. The steadfast writers of the paper's Obituaries section approach their work with journalistic rigor and narrative flair, each day depositing the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory. Going beyond the byline and into the minds of those chronicling the recently...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Profiles legendary pundit and journalist Scheer, and features Norman Lear, Arianna Huffington, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg. The film traces Scheer's career path and dramatic shifts in journalistic practice.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tthe story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor-sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril and said 'Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.' Molly's words have proved prescient.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Media magnate Dottie Peale has her own candidate for an international atomic committee, but the President chooses Maj. Gen. Melville "Ironpants" Goodwin. So, she asks Goodwin to spend the weekend at her estate. Dottie plans to set him up for a fall ... and ends up falling in love.
10) Southcliffe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Exactly a year after he reported on a killing spree in the town of his unhappy childhood. English journalist David Whitehead returns to the scene of the crime in response to an anonymous message. Someone warns that the killing is about to begin again. Is tragedy somehow woven into the fabric of the town? Will the people closest to last year₂s victims ever find ways to heal their broken lives?
11) Les vampires
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (417 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
12) Christmas child
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Christmas draws near, Jack finds himself disconnecting from the holidays, his job, and ultimately his wife. His latest assignment as a journalist takes him to Dallas, but a mysterious photograph draws him to the town of Clearwater, Texas. It is here he discovers the town's life-sized, intricately carved nativity. As Jack delves into the mysteries surrounding the nativity and its creator, he uncovers secrets from his past, reunites with the family...
13) Hangman
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life of crusading journalist Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief of one of Sweden's leading newspapers, highlighting his one-man battle against Nazism and his country's policy of appeasement to Hitler.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the 70's and Ron Burgundy is the king of San Diego. He's the most popular news anchor in town. He and his all male news team rule the city with their sauve looks, minimal IQ's and unbelievably bad hair. In Ron's world, women don't belong in the newsroom. So when rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone fills in for Ron one night and the ratings soar, it becomes more than a battle ... it becomes war.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Un taxista rustico y pobre, siente tocar el cielo cuando es tentado por una periodista aristocrata, pero es burlado por ella y ahora clama venganza por cualquiera de su clase. La oportunidad se presenta con un grupo de jovenes que llegan a su rancho y por tratar de satisfacer venganza se ve envuelto en un problema que no esperaba.
19) Life itself
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The legacy of Roger Ebert's life, recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of the world-renowned film critic and social commentator, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
20) Loving Pablo
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A journalist strikes up a romantic relationship with infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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