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Summary: Follow the story of singer Marian Anderson, whose talent broke down barriers around the world. Narrated by Renée Elise Goldsberry, Voice of Freedom interweaves Anderson's rich life story with this landmark moment in history, exploring fundamental questions about talent, race, fame, democracy and the American soul.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOI

Summary: Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is a rich and nuanced portrait of the woman known as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, who repeatedly risked her life and freedom to liberate others from slavery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HAR

Summary: It introduces viewers to a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia where two obsessed brothers are attempting to solve a 200-year-old mystery. Rick and Marty Lagina own most of Oak Island and are determined to find the treasure alleged to be buried there, despite the fact that the island is rumored to be cursed. Legend says seven people must die before the treasure is revealed, and so far,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks, LLC 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CUR

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CUR

Summary: From the fearless resolve of a single woman to the remarkable voice of thousands marching, this History Channel special offers a stunning overview of one of America's greatest defining periods.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOI

Summary: "With historic reenactments, expert interviews, and first-hand accounts, learn about the people, bloody wars, and undenieable truths that have brought us up from slavery to emancipation road on the march to freedom"--container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MAR

Summary: The landmark four-part series documents the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states, and through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The series examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country's development, challenging the long-held notion that it was exclusively a Southern enterprise.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SLA

Summary: The story of a man who was an American newspaper editor and publisher who helped establish the pattern of the modern newspaper. In his time he was one of the most powerful journalists in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOS

Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOY

Summary: "In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states ... even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FRE

Summary: A collection of videos exploring mysteries, controversial knowledge, legends, missing people, and historical events, speculating on causes or consequences, ranging from Abominable snowmen to witch doctors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VEI, Visual Entertainment Incorporated 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IN

Summary: Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreaking, an eight-part event television series, traces this ongoing sonic revolution, and explores the nexus of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOU

Dukes of September (Musical group)

Contents: People get up and drive your funky soul -- Who's that lady -- Sweet soul music -- I keep forgettin' -- Kid Charlemagne -- The same thing -- Miss Sun -- You never can tell -- What a fool believes -- Hey nineteen -- Love T.K.O. -- Peg -- Lowdown -- Takin' it to the streets -- Reelin' in the years -- Lido shuffle -- Pretzel logic -- Them changes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 429 Records 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DUK

Summary: The show offers a blue chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty, that delights, and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAG

Summary: A collection of videos exploring mysteries, controversial knowledge, legends, missing people, and historical events, speculating on causes or consequences, ranging from Abominable snowmen to witch doctors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VEI, Visual Entertainment Incorporated 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IN

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