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Muller, Peter PaulSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESummary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUSSummary: Candy Darling, the transgendered "superstar" of Andy Warhol movies (Women in Revolt; Flesh; and Small Craft Warnings) was Born James Slattery. She inspired Lou Reed's song "A Walk on the Wild Side" and earned good notices in a Tennessee Williams play. Candy became a prominent personality in Warhol's circles. Documentarian James Rasin uses a series of interviews, archival footage, and images...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Corinth Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: Take an electrifying journey into the unexplored territory of our culture's dark side, and get an up-close and powerfully personal perspective on some of the most savage serial killers in the history of law enforcement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PathfinderSummary: In the 70s, Randy Rhoads' guitar riffs reshaped rock'n'roll and raised the stakes for guitarists everywhere. As the lead guitarist for Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne, Randy made a name for himself at a very young age. You can still hear his hair-raising guitar solos on the albums Blizzard of Oz & Diary of a Madman. Tragically, Randy died at the young age of 25 in a plane crash. Known as the James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RANMuller, Peter Paul
Summary: A story of the South African lawyer Bram Fischer who defended Nelson Mandela and other members of his group during the Rivonia Trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACTSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 2Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2018Summary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITSummary: The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales for fishing and conversation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FISSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Recounts the story of Winston Churchill's challenges in World War I, especially how the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli leds to his disgrace and eventual resignation, and how he sought redemption by taking up active service in the British army; a story told through Churchill's own words in his letters to his wife Clementine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHUSummary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIVSummary: In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Woodlawn 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOO RATED PGSummary: Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MISSummary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HORSummary: The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017