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Cold War Drama Espionage, Soviet United States Drama Feature films Soviet Union Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Drama Soviet Union Politics and government 1945-1991 Drama Spies Soviet Union Drama Subversive activities United States Drama United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Drama United States Politics and government 1945-1989 DramaSummary: Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIRSummary: An ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime and the local priest find that family jewels were hidden in a chair, one in a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the rest of the fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRASummary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of the Soviet Union to study the relation between cinema and reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Potemkin re-creats the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians - that reflects the spirit of the times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment, Inc. 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BATSummary: White Russian Army general Fydor acts as a spy against the Marxists, Soviets, and Fascists in 1930s France, and manages to deceive his long-suffering wife until the forces of history catch up with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRISummary: Broken Trail: An aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2017
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Reds 2006Summary: 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 DOCSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: " Russian TV series focusing of the adventures of Masha, a good-natured, precocious, and slightly mischievous little girl, and Bear, a former circus performer."--Wikipedia. It is an animated adaptation of a Russian folktale, which was serialized beginning in 2009; 18 episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysteria zvuka Russia 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juvenile MSummary: 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: Warner Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IVASummary: Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Examines Trotsky, the revolutionary, venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leon Trotsky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TROKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017