Summary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
WYLER, SEYMOUR B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1949
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.237 WYLR Robinson,B Britt
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Waterson 1925
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRobinson, Jerome B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2765 ROBSummary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ONESummary: "Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN FORSummary: Phantom, a rarely seen mare, eludes all efforts to capture her until a young brother and sister lay eyes on her. Although Phantom would forever be a creature of the wild, her gentle, loyal colt Misty is another story altogether.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.B Davis C Conrad J Robinson
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson Berlin Snyder 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: This silent film showcases the people and places of Traverse City, Michigan in 1940, featuring local churches, schools, businesses, families and social gatherings. In the film, The Traverse City Exchange Club invites famous Hollywood director "Gary Owens" to preside over a Movie Queen contest in which the winner will receive a Hollywood contract. The film was originally produced as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Center of Traverse City 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 917.7464 WERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE'RE1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 We're
Duberman, Martin B.
Summary: "The life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson-one of the most important public figures in the twentieth century-adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson biographer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ROBC O'Flynn,B Robinson L Vardi
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Olman 1931
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNIContents: Breathin' (Ariana Grande) -- Happier (Bastille & Marshmello) -- Taki taki (DJ Snake, Selena Gomez & Ozuna, feat. Cardi B.) -- This feeling (the Chainsmokers, feat. Kelsea Ballerini) -- Electricity (Silk City, Dua Lipa, feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson) -- Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) -- Body (Loud Luxury, feat. Brando) -- Close to me (Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee) -- Thunderclouds (LSD,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN OKJSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: After returning home from the crusades and finding his home gone and the people of Sherwood oppressed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin fights for the good of all men and the love of one woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROBSummary: The true story of the Temptations, the vocal soul group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late '50s and continuing through the '90s and the deaths of the other four members.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment Inc. 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TEMSummary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TENMaberry, Jonathan
Summary: Big Dog and V-8 are in the crosshairs of the world's most dangerous special operative: Joe Ledger. And the members of V-8 are tasked to hunt down and obtain plans for a stolen vampire gene screener.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2015
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Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005