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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Today's program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction...
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
This program features an interview with Albert and David Maysles on what they then (1969) called a new technique of natural movie making, Direct Cinema, as well as excerpts from their first feature length film shot in this technique, The Salesman (about door to door sale of the Bible in working class neighborhoods of Boston). At a time when hand held cameras were not used professionally and could not record synchronous sound, the Maysles developed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter—her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call “journalism.” As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this video, Rick Davis interviews Aviva Kempner, a long-time documentary filmmaker whose works cover a broad range of issues, such as homelessness, civil rights, and the Holocaust. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is one of her most noted works. The film won many awards, including the Peabody Award and awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Kempner is also the founder...
Author
Series
House on Sunrise Lagoon volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor, ten-year-old middle child Marina enlists Boom, her new neighbor, to help make a documentary about her, but when things do not go according to plan, Marina begins to wonder if she will ever feel like she belongs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
8) True colors
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the positivity-focused town of Serenity, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Mackenzie Werner, who can visually display her emotions as colorful haze, finds her perfect world challenged when a documentary maker arrives and the town's true emotions are exposed for everyone to see.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A world scoop about the deception which fooled Hitler about the Normandy landings of 1944. In a tale of double agents and decoys, the investigation reveals, for the first time, the identity of the most secret of them all: George VI, as well as how the royal family managed to lose one of Britain's greatest secrets.
11) The reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lamar dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but when his grandfather is killed in a racist act of violence, Lamar becomes determined to honor his legacy by documenting the fight for justice.
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