Washington, Denzel
Summary: An idealistic defense attorney finds himself caught up in a series of events that leads him to take extreme action.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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Summary: An airline pilot saves a plane from crashing but an investigation afterwards reveals his substance abuse problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2013
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Summary: While housing ex-CIA agent turned criminal, Tobin Frost, a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa is attacked by mercenaries forcing Frost and the CIA agent in charge to run for their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgury himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Cinema 2002
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Summary: Describes the American rowing team's triumphant and unlikely win during the 1936 Olympics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from Eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 797.123 BROSummary: Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adof Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 797.123 BROSummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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Summary: Highlighting the importance of everyday mentorship, a Hollywood star shares his personal story of mentoring and mentors who shaped his life, and introduces the life-changing stories of more than seventy of America's leading personalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.43092 LENLevitsky, Steven
Summary: "A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2009Summary: In a film Variety called an "elegantly crafted and illuminating portrait of the singular jazz legend," director John Scheinfeld explores the life, spiritual journey and unmistakable music of John Coltrane, whose recorded works range from deeply expressive ballads to wildly expressive "sheets o sound." Scheinfeld crafts a story that reveals and affirms the impact Trane had on a variety of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music company 2017
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CHASummary: NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INSContents: Public enemies /Ennemis publics -- American gangster /Gangster Américain -- Casino -- Carlito's way /À la manière de Carlito -- Scarface /Le Balafré.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LEGSummary: Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MalcolmSummary: With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Much 2003Summary: New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's day is turned upside down when he must face-off against Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3. Ryder is the leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a henchman who used to work for the MTA. NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti initially takes charge of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Taking 2009Summary: The movie features the struggle between a L.A. police officer and a dangerous, sadistic intelligent notorious killer, a virtual reality creation that has escaped cyberspace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999