We’re proud of the variety and depth of the Media Services collection. In the interest of bringing you some highlights and deep cuts from our shelves, we’ll be posting unusual and interesting Top 10 lists of some of our favorite DVDs. You may often hear self-identified film snobs talk about their love for documentaries as […]
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AFI Docs announces its 2014 lineup, and it looks terrific
For the uninitiated, every year the American Film Institute hosts AFI Docs, a festival for upcoming documentaries hosted in and around the Washington, DC Metro area. AFI Docs is among the most esteemed documentary film festivals in the world, and ever summer, it is perhaps the biggest film event in the DC area. The AFI […]
Continue readingCNBC catches up with The Queen of Versailles subjects
The Queen of Versailles (HU DVD 4553) is one of the more popular and unusual documentaries in our collection. It chronicles the lifestyle of Florida billionaires Jackie and David Siegel as they attempt to build an impossibly massive mansion during the height of the recent economic downturn. As the film explains, a variety of economic […]
Continue readingSyrian civil war documentary available streaming via AU Library
With the White House’s recent announcement that it intends to engage in military strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria in response to its purported use of chemical weapons, the ongoing Syrian civil war has once again been thrust into international spotlight. For many who have not followed the conflict since it began in 2011, […]
Continue readingHot Docs: The Light in Her Eyes
Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection. The Light in Her Eyes (DVD 10782) tells the fascinating story of a Muslim preacher whose school has led to more women taking active involvement in the Islamic community. The filmmaker notes that western feminism tends to be secular; in contrast, the women […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Human Geography
Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection. Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth (DVD 10629) is a four-disc series that introduces the new and developing field of human geography. Human geography fuses traditional geographic studies with the social sciences, developing an understanding of how human population spreads, transfers, and […]
Continue readingHot Docs: The Uprising of ’34
Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection. The Uprising of ’34 (DVD 10617) tells the story of a massive but largely unremembered textile worker strike from 1934. It was at the time the largest labor strike in the history of the United States and lasted for nearly a month, greatly […]
Continue readingWe love our streaming videos, and you should too
The American Library University has been slowly building up its streaming video collections, as mentioned in previous posts highlighting Silent Film Online, Films on Demand, the Internet Archive, and other collections from Alexander Street Press. We’ve been slowly accumulating more streaming video resources from across the web and through new databases, and we’ve finally hit […]
Continue readingHot Docs: The Boy Game
Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection. The Boy Game (DVD 8955) views bullying from a gendered perspective. The film – only 16 minutes long – posits that the bullying epidemic is in part caused by social pressure among boys to conform to the resilient, tough gender norms common among […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Nuclear Savage
Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection. Nuclear Savage (DVD 10606) puts a lens on the untold victims of nuclear testing. The effects of nuclear weaponry are well documented, yet few discuss the lives of the people intentionally exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. The film […]
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