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Documentary films

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

2 inches tall, 2007

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

2 Inches Tall is a documentary short which examines the hobby of miniature wargaming to ask the question: Why play with war? Through their motivations and practices, the film's four profiled wargamers construct a response to that question, expressing both

Dates: 2007

Accumulation, 2009

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

Accumulation is a 19-minute autobiographical documentary meditating on themes of family, home, and loss through the lens of an indelible childhood memory. -- abstract.

Dates: 2009

Affordable Asheville attractions, 2004

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

Affordable Asheville Attractions highlights the inexpensive attractions that Asheville has to offer. It focuses on outdoor activities, authors from the area, local arts and crafts, sports, restaurants, breweries and clubs. -- abstract.

Dates: 2004

Ark, 2016

 Item
Identifier: vm_2016spring_siefert_lynne.pdf
Overview

"Ark is an experimental documentary about a cruise ship at the end of the world. In this film we tour the ship and discover through anonymous voices that the present is actually the future." -- Abstract

Dates: 2016

Arthur Barron Collection

 Collection — Record carton MSS 014 Box 01: Series MSS 014-1; Series MSS 014-2
Identifier: MSS 014
Scope and Contents The Arthur Barron Collection contains 34 unbound scripts written, directed, or produced by Arthur Barron and spans film, television, and stage. The scripts were written between 1972 and 1999. Some collection items were filmed and aired while others were never produced or sold. Most scripts in the collection are documentaries. Of note is the script "Blind Sunday" which was produced as an ABC afterschool special and won the 1977 Writer's Guild of America Award for best children's script. A few...
Dates: 1972 - 1999

Beautiful things, 2010

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

Over the last decade, the influence of Western culture on Japanese youth has been so great that an entirely new hybrid culture has emerged, much to the chagrin of the older population. In order to afford makeovers to appear more like their Hollywood idols

Dates: 2010

Bird by bird a journey through America, 2012

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

A life list compiles all the birds a bird watcher has seen in their lifetime. For Elena Mead, starting her life list in the fall of 2010 was only the beginning. Starting the summer of 2011, Elena will attempt to film all 50 US state birds in their respect

Dates: 2012

Blue Rebellion/Out of the Blue, 2023

 Item
Identifier: vm_2023spring_ali_mehvish.pdf
Overview

"Blue Rebellion is a project featuring a multimedia exhibition, as well as short-film documentary called, "Out of the Blue' which explores the story and colonial history of natural indigo dye, an indigenous product of Bengal that is now being revived in Bangladesh, through slow and sustainable fashion by local artisans and entrepreneurs. It is a project celebrating an important artisanal craft that exists at the intersection of indigenous expression and colonial legacy." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Cameron : [videorecording]: a portrait, 2010

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

This project is dedicated to the many boys in Bermuda who are growing up without fathers. In a time where violence is invading Bermudian culture, it is important to empower the youth positively, so they don't get lead down the wrong path. The Big Brother/

Dates: 2010

Concord birthplace of American freedom, 2006

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

A study of the American Revolution and the Nineteenth Century Literary Revolution both of which took place in Concord, Massachusetts. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006

Crossing the river, 2016

 Item
Identifier: vm_2016summer_petkov_plamen.pdf
Overview

"The lives of three generations of Europeans are interlaced by a filmmaker who travels by train from Cambridge to Boston, Massachusetts and tries to find out if a story of a man that saved 1,000 children during the Second World War is true. The film is a reflection on the perception of past, true, and reality." -- Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Cuts, 2018

 Item
Identifier: vm_2018fall_zeng_guangya.pdf
Overview

"'Cuts' is a documentary about a 47-year-old man's career path and his relationship between his two fathers." -- Abstract

Dates: 2018

Dem bu demdir, 2007

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

A 6-minute video shot in observational style and brought together with an experimental approach. Ramifications of individualistic societies as it refers to lonely and elderly are explored through observations from the streets of Boston. Themes like nece

Dates: 2007

Dream Factory, 2022

 Item
Identifier: vm_2022fall_nigam_aarushi.pdf
Overview "Dream Factory is a feature-length, hybrid documentary following the "below-the-line" crew of a big-budget Bollywood film. A meditation on the intensely physicial, yet invisible, labor behind India's most popular art form, it is also a personal essay on the magic and contradictions that are the Indian film industry. Borrowing Bollywood's grammar to tell the stories of its most invisible workers, the film delves into the power of storytelling, and raises questions about the price that must be...
Dates: 2022

Ego trip, 1999

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates: 1999

Export My Love, 2019

 Item
Identifier: vm_2019spring_li_jinglin.pdf
Overview

"Export My Love is a documentary about four divorced or widowed women trying to persue love by finding U.S. husband. It tries to raise the discussion of how the society treats those single women with kids." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Fail better farm, 2007

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

This is a twenty-five documentary that focuses on Clayton Carter and Kendra Michaud, the 'farmers-in-residence' at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. The piece not only explores the trials and tribulations of becoming farmers, but it is

Dates: 2007

Families can be together forever, 2016

 Item
Identifier: vm_2016summer_poplin_colleen.pdf
Overview

"Follows the filmmaker's journey out of the Mormon church -- a journey unexpectedly aligned with her first pregnancy. The film depicts her pregnancy from start to finish while exploring the emotional and spiritual weight of leaving Mormonism, its effect on the mother she hopes to become, and its effect on the mother who raised her." -- Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Family participatory project, 2012

 Item — Multiple Containers
Overview

A novel idea, Family Participatory model involves a filmmaker, Westborough community TV, and three Westborough families. -- abstract.

Dates: 2012

Films, 2015 - 2018

 Series
Scope and Contents

Films produced by Emerson College's Media, Technologies and Production Department, including documentaries and promotional films and footage of Emerson College events.

Dates: 2015 - 2018