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Action and adventure films Films for the hearing impaired Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Drama Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) Drama Man-woman relationships Military campaigns Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Drama Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 World War (1914-1918) World War (1939-1945)Filter By Subjects
Action and adventure films Films for the hearing impaired Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Drama Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) Drama Man-woman relationships Military campaigns Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Drama Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 World War (1914-1918) World War (1939-1945)Summary: A bumbling, disaster-prone inspector invades a Swiss ski resort and becomes obsessed with capturing a jewel thief hoping to lift the legendary 'Pink Panther' diamond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1964
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PINFarley, Walter 1915-
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family BlackSummary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: 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 DOCPresley, Elvis 1935-1977
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PRESummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONWalker, T-Bone
Contents: Goin' to funky town -- Party girl -- Why my baby (keep on bothering me) -- Jealous woman -- Going to build me a playhouse -- Long skirt baby blues -- Struggling blues -- I'm in an auful mood -- I wish my baby (would come home at night).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BGO Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WALWalker, T-Bone
Contents: Paris blues -- Here I am broken hearted -- Jot's blues -- Blues jam.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City Hall Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WALMessner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioHall, Walter, 1940-
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mother Earth News 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.93 HAL(MAY, 1910 TO APRIL, 1911)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1911
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 352.1 ANNThoene, Bodie 1951-
Summary: In this sequel to the Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lendhaim his caught in the center of violence that sweeps Europe as Hitler's plan to annihilate the Jews unfolds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ThoenSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTSummary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAPSummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Deutermann, P. T 1941-
Summary: Investigating the falling death of a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman who was found wearing a female student's underclothing, Ev, the female student's father, fears his daughter will be unfairly branded by corrupt bureaucratic agents at the Academy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEUSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem travels across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, and inspires an entire continent with their unique brand of jazz music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 MYESummary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006