Barak Goodman
1) Ruby Ridge
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the events of the 1992 standoff between government agents and the Weaver family on Ruby Ridge in Idaho.
4) Kinsey
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kinsey was a scientist whose repressed childhood, personal struggles and obsessive nature would propel him to conduct the first full-scale study of sexual behavior, and break through America's silence on human sexuality.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. SLAY THE DRAGON follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container....
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The medical procedure, lobotomy, was considered a groundbreaking procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. What began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some fifty state asylums, often with devastating results. The neurologist, Walter Freeman, in little more than a decade after his rise to fame, was decried as a moral monster, and that the lobotomy was one of the most barbaric...
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics
10) Slay the dragon
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Looks at the fight to end gerrymandering and the influence it has on American elections.
12) The presidents
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
17 DVDs (ca. 38 hr., 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronciles the lives and accomplishments of presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.