Summary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Sutro, Dirk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDG Books Worldwide 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 SUTSummary: Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CORSummary: Every family has its secrets. Director Peter Stephan Jungk had always known that his Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. But it was not until twenty years after her death in 1973 that he learned she had led a double life, and changed the course of history. Jungk unravels what had been a well-kept secret by speaking with military historians, photo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: A road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines, and mountains, with alternative country musician and songwriter Jim White acting as tour guide. Presents a collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017: it's a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the future look like from where we are standing? And what if we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOTSummary: The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a controversial and influential political figure. He offers a candid journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers insights into the 1945 fire bombing of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 973.92 FOGSummary: "After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CUBSabino, David
Summary: "Books in the GAME DAY series give readers a behind the scenes peek at their favorite sports, told from the point of view of a professional insider. This book is all about Olympic swimming/diving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SABSummary: "Based on the book by New York Times best-selling author Lee Strobel, The Case for Heaven answers the questions of what awaits us after death, the evidence for Heaven and Hell, and what really happens in Near-Death Experiences. In The Case For Heaven, audiences will be taken on a fascinating journey to find out what happens after we die. Lee Strobel explores the evidence for an afterlife as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Sandoval Studios] 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC CASSummary: Go behind the Oklahoma State Penitentiary walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWESummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOARice, Jerry
Summary: "As a three-time Super Bowl winner and Super Bowl MVP, Jerry Rice has firsthand knowledge of what it takes to win championships. In this celebration of the biggest game in professional sports, Rice counts down the fifty greatest moments from the grand, fifty-year history of the Super Bowl. Through scores of first-person accounts from the players and coaches themselves, readers get new and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.332 RICSummary: Branded as the most hated man in wrestling after winning a highly controversial WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2000, actor David Arquette attempts a rocky return to the sport that stalled his promising Hollywood career. Dangerously determined to redeem his reputation and reclaim his self-respect, Arquette will stop at nothing to earn his place in professional wrestling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YOUFranek, Robert
Summary: A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in dozens of different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2023
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Summary: This edition of the MOTOR Auto Repair Manual covers specifications and service procedures on 1997-2001 DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation models available at time of publication. Volume 2 covers Dash Gauges, Speed Controls, Wiper Systems, Passive Restraints, Dash Panel Service, Anti-Lock Brakes and Active Suspension Systems. Includes model years 1998,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motor 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 American 1998-02 Vol. 2MOTOR
Summary: This edition of the MOTOR Auto Repair Manual covers specifications and service procedures on DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation models available at time of publication. Volume 1 contains specific vehicle and system service, including Vehicle Identification, Air Bag System Precautions, Computer Relearn Procedures, Service Reminder and Warning Lamp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motor 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 American 2003-07 Vol. 1Summary: The fly: Experimental scientist Andre Delambre attempts to transfer matter through space, using himself as the test subject. But things go horrifically wrong when a common housefly buzzes into the machine, resulting in two grotesque man-fly hybrids. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, Andre desperately hopes that he, his wife Helene and his brother Francois can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FLYauthor.
Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Features an exhilarating look under the sea through the eyes of those that live there. Incredible state-of-the-art-underwater filmmaking will take viewers breath away as they migrate with whales, swim alongside a great white shark, and race with dolphins at play. Includes first-ever images of elusive deepwater creatures, featurettes, music video, filmmaker annotations, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OCECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NonFic OCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD OCECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OCE RATED NRSummary: Bestselling British author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend Captain James Cook as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2013