Summary: The debut performance from Jonas Kaufmann as Goethe's love-lorn hero in Massenet's romantic opera. Kaufmann is supported by a cast including Sophie Koch and Ludovic Tézier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA WER

Kruger, Diane

Summary: Follows the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her servants in July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAR

Summary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DEVI

Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRA

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RAK

Summary: Actual film record of the expedition (April 28, 1947 thru August 7, 1947) photographed by those 5 men who lived its great adventure of traveling 4300 miles, on a raft, across the ocean from Peru to Polynesia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Associates 1997

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KON

Summary: When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 2000

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Summary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUD

Summary: Irene is with her elderly paramour, on the Riviera, to celebrate her birthday. When he falls asleep on her, she decides to slip down to the hotel bar. There, she mistakes barman Jean for a wealthy guest. He encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. The following year, the same thing happens. This time her lover finds out and disowns her. Knowing Jean is a barman...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRI

Summary: Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber Inc. 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SAL

Summary: 1804: the hidden history of Haiti is a documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian Revolution. Produced by the creator of the best-selling Hidden Colors film series, 1804 goes in-depth about the four principal players who were instrumental in Haiti's independence: Makandal, Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This documentary gives a compelling look into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: King Flex Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EIG

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PRE

Charest, Benoît.

Contents: Under the Bridge (Sandy Silver) (1:51) -- Belleville Rendez-Vous (French Version) (-M-) (3:09) -- Opening Theme (0:50) -- Cabaret Opening (Beatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudrault, and Marie-Lou Gauthier) (3:11) -- Tour de France (Jean-Claude Donde) (1:25) -- Attila Marcel (Beatrice Bonifassi) (2:20) -- Bruno's Theme (Marin Natsurika, accordion) (1:24) -- Easy, Bruno, Easy (Benoît Charest, guitar)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Les Amateurs 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TRI

Pioulard, Benoît

Contents: With no advantage -- The gilded fear that guides the flow -- Of everything that rhymes -- Is in its clearest form -- An image apart from ourselves -- Whose palms create -- As would a weaver -- A shade of celadon -- So etched in memory -- Upon the break arch -- That wounded weathered -- Shut-ins on Sunday see -- The very edge of its flame -- And relent.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PIO

Summary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMB

Poe, Mayumi Shimose

Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POE

Summary: 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 COU

Jacquet, Luc.

Summary: Chronicles how emperor penguins endure the coldest place on Earth to mate and hatch their young, with references to the making of the documentary film depicting their ordeal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598.47 JAC

Jacquet, Illinois.

Contents: Frantic Fanny -- Stella by starlight -- Satin doll -- Banned in Boston -- Indiana (Back home again in Indiana) -- Ydeen-O -- Imagination -- How now? -- Reverie -- Pucker up.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAC

Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Summary: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAY

Summary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002

Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WIL