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Summary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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Summary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

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Summary: "How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui - also known as Easter Island - carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them. Now, a new generation of researchers is overturning old theories, revealing the rich history, innovation and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2024

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Summary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAL

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Summary: Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV PLA

Summary: This is a documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AI

Wyld, Evie.

Summary: The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WYL

Summary: This episode interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It explores why Darwin's "dangerous idea" might matter even more today than it did in his own time, and reveals how science might be used to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2001

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAR

Summary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Knapman, Timothy

Summary: A young dragon finds a boy and introduces him to his family, friends, and teacher, but it is clear that the boy would like to return to his faraway home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Childrens Books 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KNA

Summary: "In the highly competitive, hot-house atmosphere of the Regency house party, marriage, money, and morals are all up for grabs. For nine sunny summer weeks, a group of eligible men and women take up residence in a magnificent English country estate to live exactly as they did two centuries ago - including the social hierarchy, the lavish lifestyle, the backroom intrigues, and the intricate...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wall to Wall Television Ltd. 2004

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

Knapman, Timothy.

Summary: When Alice and Jack are out playing, they hear a strange noise. Alice wants to know what it is, but Jack is afraid. He thinks it might be the Wicked Wolf with big, bad claws and snap-trap jaws. But Alice takes his hand and they follow the noise, right into the heart of the forest...Just what will they discover there?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Knapman 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KNA

Summary: Follows lioness Ma di Tau and her fragile cubs as they take a perilous journey through raging fire, rival prides, croc-infested rivers, and deadly buffalo in order to survive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS

Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAL

Summary: It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 355 Warrior 2019

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

Summary: The first feature-length appreciation of Eva Hesse's life and work, makes superb use of the artist's voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and archival interviews with fellow artists who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVA

Ward, Lynd

Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WAR

Knapman, Timothy

Summary: Woo-woo! When Little Train ventures way down the tracks, he's glad he remembers his mommy and daddy's coaching in a story with sure appeal for first-time adventurers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KNA

Summary: The makers of the Emmy Award(r)-winning series Life take viewers deeper than ever into the perilous and exhilarating drama humans share with every other animal on the planet, from the circumstances of birth and the struggle to reach adulthood, secure a home and find a mate, to the unpredictable challenges thrust on all creatures by the environment, enemies and even families.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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

Summary: A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 791.34 MAN

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAN

Summary: Journey with National Geographic to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park and discover what is being done to bring this African oasis back to its former glory, including perhaps the most ambitious restoration effort ever attempted, with elephants, hippos, and scores of zebra, wildebeest, impala, and buffalo being relocated into the park.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.9 AFR

Summary: David Attenborough returns to the world's oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2018

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

Summary: Dolphins and whales may appear to be totally alien to us. But with their mental ability, group communication and the recent discovery that dolphins have individual names, they are closer to us than we ever imagined. Ace underwater cameramen Doug Allan and Didier Noirot embark on a quest to film the most amazing stories of whales and dolphins across the ocean world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY E-TV OCE

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