Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVSummary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: 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: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESSummary: 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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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FORSummary: "In pre-World War II London, Spanish agent Denard struggles to close a high-level business deal that will strike a blow against fascists in his native country. But industrialists not yet alert to the threat of fascism reject him. A teenage ally caught up in his efforts is murdered. And the mission itself seems a failure. Yet neither the story nor Denard will stop there. Charles Boyer plays...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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We have 2 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISSummary: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOJSummary: 1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers₂ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THESummary: 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: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDSummary: The story of one remarkable doctor as he transforms the standards of care for paraplegics. Arriving at England's Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1944, Doctor Ludwig Guttmann reinvigorates the lives of his staff and patients with one daring move: he introduces athletics into the rehabilitation plan of his patients, paralyzed soldiers who have been cast-off and are facing death from neglect. Using...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESSummary: Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen year old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INSummary: Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at Cadiz. Middle-aged Elizabeth, so attracted to the younger Devereux but fearful of his influence and popularity, sends him on a new mission: a doomed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005