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Counterfeiters Germany Drama Films for the hearing impaired Forced labor Germany History 20th century Drama Germany Jewish men Germany Drama Motion pictures, French Operas Excerpts Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Drama World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Counterfeit money Germany DramaLuchini, Fabrice
Summary: A married stockbroker living in 1960's Paris has his world turned upside-down when he hires a Spanish maid who introduces him to a different reality up on the sixth floor servants' quarters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED NRSummary: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INTSummary: 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 DOCRichter, Sviatoslav
Contents: Sonata no. 60 in C, H. XVI/50 / Haydn -- Scherzo no. 4 in E, op. 54 ; Ballade no. 3 in A-flat, op. 47 ; Etudes, op. 10. No. 10 in A-flat ; No. 12 in C minor : Revolutionary ; Mazurka in C, op. 24 no. 2 / Chopin -- Preludes. Op. 23 no. 1 ; Op. 32 nos. 9, 10 and 12 / Rachmaninoff -- Jeux d'eau ; La vallee des cloches / Ravel -- Sonata no. 6 in A, op. 82 ; Visions fugitives, op. 22. Nos. 3, 4, 5,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Red Seal 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RichtSummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: "A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POTSummary: Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon tires of their simpler life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favorite novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GEMSummary: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOLSummary: After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAMSummary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Contents: Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky -- Etude in F major [op. 25, no. 3] ; Waltz in A minor [op. 34, no. 2] / Chopin -- Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky ; arr. Ravel.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MUSSummary: 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 JUDPavarotti, Luciano.
Contents: Turandot. Nessun dorma! / Puccini (Luciano Pavarotti) (2:58) -- Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (Renata Tebaldi) (2:11) -- La bohème. Che gelida manina (Luciano Pavarotti) (4:47) ; Musetta's waltz song (Mirella Freni, Elizabeth Harwood, Michel Sénéchal, Rolando Panerai) (2:46) / Puccini -- Tosca. Recondita armonia (Luciano Pavarotti, Italo Tajo) (2:58) ; E lucevan le stelle...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: London 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL Pavarotti 1994Puccini, Giacomo
Contents: Manon Lescaut. In quelle trine morbide (2:56) ; Sola, perduta, abbandonata (5:53) -- Madama Butterfly. Un bel d©Ơ vedremo (4:34) ; Con onor muore (3:44) -- La Boh©·me. S©Ơ. Mi chiamano Mim©Ơ (4:48) ; Donde lieta usc©Ơ (3:32) -- Suor Angelica. Senza mamma (5:35) -- Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro (2:34) -- Turandot. Signore, ascolta (2:30) ; In questa reggia (6:24) ; Tu che di gel sei cinta...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O PUCSummary: The incredible true story of Olympic legend Jesse Owens. In his epic quest to be the greatest athlete in history, Owens chooses to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he must overcome not only elite competition, but also the brutal racial climate of Adolf Hitler's Germany. A film about courage, determination, tolerance, friendship and trust.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAC RATED PG13Summary: Motivation and the will to win are portrayed in this true story of two British track athletes striving to win major events at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Chariots 1997Visconti, Luchino
Summary: Distraught over the fact that her lover has failed to meet her on a canal bridge, Natalia encounters Mario, who agrees to assist her in finding the man, with the objective of wooing her himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOTSummary: 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 COUPoe, 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