Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDAllan, Tony
Summary: Examines the myths and beliefs of ancient China.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 299 ALLAllan, Tony
Summary: Examines the events and circumstances leading to the discovery of DNA and the impact of this discovery on the scientific and medical communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 572.86 ALLAllan, Tony
Summary: Examines the myths and beliefs of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 299 ALLAllan, Tony
Summary: The Vikings is a richly illustrated introduction to this extraordinary culture, presenting an art of immense sophistication, with artifacts ranging from exquisite gold jewelry to superbly decorated weapons, and vividly incised and painted runestones. This book covers themes that have long preoccupied the popular imagination, including: the restless spirit of the Norsemen and their extraordinary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 948.022 ALLSummary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoAllen, Tony
Contents: Moody boy -- Bad roads -- Cruising -- On fire -- Woro dance -- Tony's blues -- Wolf eats wolf -- Cool cats -- Push and pull -- Ewajo -- Life is beautiful.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALLSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUAllen, Tony
Contents: Moving on (6:41) -- Boat journey (4:44) -- Tiger's skip (3:51) -- Ewa (4:11) -- Afro kungfu beat (6:07) -- Koko dance (6:38) -- Go back (featuring Damon Albarn) (5:36) -- Ire omo (featuring Adunni and Nefretiti) (5:06) -- Africa man (5:03) -- Tony Wood (featuring Kuku) (6:05).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Village Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALLAllen, Tony
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ALLAllen, Tony
Contents: Secret agent (5:21) -- Ijo (5:13) -- Switch (4:49) -- Celebrate (7:54) -- Ayenlo (4:57) -- Busybody (4:34) -- Pariwo (5:53) -- Nina lowo (5:44) -- Atuwaba (:50) -- Alutere (3:44) -- Elewon po (5:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALLSummary: Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan from its birth in 1866 to the present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KUAllen, Tony
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALLSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MR.Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRContents: CD 1. The seasons (Lynyrd Skynryd) (4:09) ; Smokies (Barefoot Jerry) (2:13) ; Hush (Joe South) (3:45) ; Papa, won't you let me go to town with you (Bobbie Gentry) (2:33) ; Stone fox chase (Area Code 615) (3:16) ; God rest his soul (Duane and Gregg Allman) (3:52) ; I walk on guilded splinters (Cher) (2:30) ; Please be with me (Cowboy) (3:46) ; Ain't wastin' time no more (The Allman Brothers) ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES DELSummary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEASummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACHolman, J. Alan 1931-
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1977
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 597.92 HOLHolman, J. Alan 1931-
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1975