Summary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSCharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: All I want to do (with Angie Stone) -- You are my sunshine (with Chris Isaak) -- It all goes by so fast (with Mary J. Blige) -- You were there (with Gladys Knight) -- Imagine (with Ruben Studdard & The Harlem Gospel Singers) -- Compared to what (with Leela James) -- Big bad love (with Diana Ross) -- I will be there (with Idina Menzel) -- Blame it on the sun (with George Michael) -- Touch (with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHASummary: 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
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCCharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: I got a woman 2:50. -- Greenbacks 2:48. -- Come back baby 3:04. -- A fool for you 3:00. -- This little girl of mine 2:30. -- Hard times 2:53. -- A bit of soul 2:17. -- Mary Ann 2:45. -- Drown in my own tears 3:19. -- Hallelujah I love her so 2:34. -- What would I do without you 2:34. -- Lonely Avenue 2:33. -- I want to know 2:09. -- Leave my woman alone 2:38. -- It's alright 2:15. -- Ain't that...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHACharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: From the heart 3:30. -- I've got news for you 4:28. -- Moanin' 3:14. -- Let's go 2:39. -- One mint julep 3:02. -- I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town 3:38. -- Stompin' room only 3:35. -- Mister C 4:28. -- Strike up the band 2:35. -- Birth of the blues 5:05. -- Plus 3 from Genius hits the road. -- Alabamy bound 1:35. -- Basin Street Blues 2:45. -- New York's my home 2:04.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DunhillCompact Classics 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHACharles, Ray 1930-2005.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHASummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSTarshis, Lauren
Summary: Historical fiction. When disaster strikes, heroes are made. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in the thrilling I SURVIVED series In this collection, witness unforgettable kids who, against all odds, survived sinking ships, shark attacks, the most destructive hurricane to hit North America, and the bombing that launched...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Five 1998Summary: A Hollywood movie crew is in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production with Kansas as their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EASSummary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Various Artists.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 1977
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MYLindgren, Astrid 1907-
Summary: Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J LinSummary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Based on journalist Kim Barker's memoir "The Taliban shuffle: strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Whiskey 2016Bergman, Ingrid
Summary: Collection of 5 newly restored films of Ingmar Bergman and a bonus disc of "never-before-seen materials."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INGSummary: Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GROContents: Think / Shirley Scott (8:01) -- Twist city / Johnny Griffin (5:23) -- How long blues / Ray Charles, Milt Jackson (9:12) -- Comin' home baby / Herbie Mann (8:35) -- Russell and Eliot / Yusef Lateef (4:48) -- Listen here / Eddie Harris (7:37) -- With these hands / Les McCann (5:35) -- Compared to what / Les McCann, Eddie Harris (8:50) -- You're the one / Hank Crawford (4:20) --Jive Samba / Nat...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Jazz 1986