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Roots n' bluesSummary: Set in the 1970s metropolis of Bay City, two undercover police detective, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey. They rely on their street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod. The two are on their first big case which involves a former college campus drug...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: The complete second season of the popular 1970's detective show starring, Paul Michael Glaser as Starsky, David Soul as Hutch and Antonio Fargas as Huggy-Bear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STASummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 1984Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR RATED RSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOVarious Artists
Contents: St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) -- Match box blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- Ain't no tellin' (Mississippi John Hurt) -- Lord, I just can't keep from cryin' (Blind Willie Johnson) -- Pigmeat is what I crave (Bo Carter) -- Southern can is mine (Blind Willie McTell) -- Low down St. Louis blues (Lonnie Johnson) -- Revenue man blues (Charley Patton) -- Stormy night blues (Leroy Carr) -- I believe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1990