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Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Publication Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the role documentary films play in communicating information about life and important issues with audiences. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
Author
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cade Gallari, who made her life a living hell in high school, wants to shoot a documentary about the mysterious mansion she inherited, former "fat girl" Ava Spencer, the owner of a successful concierge business, refuses to be at his beck and call, especially in the bedroom.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Publication Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influential political figures of the 20th century. Now, for the first time ever, he sits down one on one with director Errol Morris to offer a candid and intimate journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history--the bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the effects of the Vietnam...
Author
Publication Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 0 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Billy Waddler is trying to film a documentary about moose, but the moose in question has no intention of spending his life in the woods and his animal friends, who have dreams of their own, help him prove his point.
Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homebody Lex McCall loves her sleepy Vermont town and quiet bookstore job. When the bookshop owner, eager to off-load the supposedly haunted building, offers to sell the store to Lex at an unbeatable price, Lex jumps at the chance to further put down roots. Then handsome stranger James stops by the bookstore. Lex assumes he's just another tourist passing through, but it turns out he's part of a ghost-hunting documentary crew that's looking into the...
7) Iowa
Author
Publisher
[Michael Frederick]
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When I saw that storm over Ledges State Park ... I remembered my mother telling me that "Ledges" would make a great movie." -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Moose Springs, Alaska volume 3
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
PBS 39, WFWA-DT
Publication Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
For a school video project, Josh and Kenlyn decide to investigate the egg industry. Their assignment is to find out how the egg industry has changed over the years, where it is today, and come up with a conclusion as to why the industry has changed.
Author
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town - and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay - or does it?"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Docurama
Publication Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
American food is in a state of crisis. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise, food costs are skyrocketing, family farms are in decline, and our agricultural environment is in jeopardy. Explore a thriving local food movement as our world becomes a more flavorless, disconnected, and dangerous place to eat.
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
From the Spanish Conquistadors of the 16th century to the English colonists of the 18th, the settling of America often came at the cost of Native American blood. But the 350-year conflict between European settlers and Indian natives reached its apex with the territorial expansions of the 19th century, when the notion of Manifest Destiny justified a series of battles and massacres that virtually wiped out the indigenous population. this five-part documentary...
16) Super size me
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once, and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life--husband, home, and career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome...
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Explores questions raised about Aspartame sweetener including whether there is a connection between the artificial sweetener and illnesses such as brain cancer and multiple sclerosis. Also discusses the process by which Aspartame received FDA approval and various reports of health risks.
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The films in this double feature--two of three films produced by the public information/education project, Running Dry--seek to raise awareness of the worsening global humanitarian water crisis. Running dry is looks at water quality and quantity around the world and features interviews with . The American Southwest : are we running dry? looks at water problems in the American Southwest that have resulted from severe drought, urban development, agricultural...
20) Spellbound
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.





