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 INSSummary: "This dramatic documentary, with full scale battles, elaborate sets, and a large cast, tells the fascinating story of three world powers - England, France and an alliance of Native American nations - whose struggles planted the seeds for the American Revolution. A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: 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 DOCMasilamani, Mike
Summary: "A darkly satiric account of childhood in times of war, violence and refugee camps. Set in Sri Lanka, the scenes that unfolds in this powerful vignette of children caught in the crossfire of civil war could equally happen elsewhere-- in all places where human deaths are reduced to numbers and guns do not differentiate between adults and children"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books Private Limited 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASCharles, 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 CHABrown, Daniel
Summary: Describes the American rowing team's triumphant and unlikely win during the 1936 Olympics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Charles, 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 CHAHaneke, Michael
Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASSummary: Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIV
Summary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNLindgren, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J LinBergman, 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 INGContents: Too late new / Wet Leg -- She still leads me on / Suede -- Hot penny day / Dry Cleaning -- No gold teeth / Danger Mouse and Black Thought -- Diarabi / Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin -- Taken back / Rich Ruth -- The oppsosite / The Smile -- Try Love / Horace Andy -- A lifetime to find / Wilco -- Partition / Bill Callahan -- The weight / Mavis Staples and Levon Helm -- Fever / Aldous Harding --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: For a group of quirky animals, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering new 'creature.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WILSummary: 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 GROSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATSummary: 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. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREVarious 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 MYTchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TCHSummary: The events of September 11, 2001, have dramatically shifted the worldview of most Americans. This program by award-winning filmmaker Robert Parish promotes hope and healing in the aftermath of traumatic events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Featured speakers include family advocate Jacki McKinney; Dr. Laurie Anne Pearlman, co-director of the Traumatic Stress Institute, in Connecticut; Dr....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005