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Clarke, Alan 1935-1990 Dance California Los Angeles France History 1789-1793 France History Louis XVI, 1774-1793 Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France Marie Antoinette 1755-1793 Queens France Biography Sex in dance California Los Angeles United States Politics and government 1963-1969 Widowers Fiction Youth and violence California Los AngelesFilter By Series
Widescreen DVD collectionSummary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCSummary: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 570 Life 2010Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc LCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIFSummary: William Burroughs: the Beats éminence grise, "literary outlaw," culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Yonilizer Productions 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILSummary: In the Gobi Desert, a family of nomads, who assist in the birth of its camel herd, face a crisis when one white calf is rejected by its mother. With all hope lost, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a far-off village to fetch a musician capable of performing a magical ceremony.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: Filmed over three years, The farmer's wife presents the travails of a Nebraska farmer and his wife as they struggle to preserve both their farm and their marriage.
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 FARSummary: Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family HouseboatSummary: Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAI
Summary: Tells the sweeping and dramatic story of religious life in America, examining more than 500 years of American religious history, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the 2008 presidential election. Examine this history as it has played out in public life, exploring the complex interaction between religion and democracy in the United States; the origins of the American concept of religious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GODSummary: A serious exploration of some of the questions surrounding religious vocation in an aggressively secular culture, the series chronicles several emotional weeks in the lives of four young men as they struggle with the decision to enter the seminary and become Roman Catholic priests. All grapple with the sacrifices they would have to make should they enter the priesthood, including the vow of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GODSummary: "RFK, a new biography of Robert Kennedy ... takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RFKSummary: The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARSummary: Surrounded by drug addiction, gangs and impoverishment, a dance movement rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005