Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet. The two embark on one of the most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bonnie

Summary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017

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

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

Summary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNI

Summary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRE

Summary: Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ROG

Summary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIG

Summary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOT

Summary: A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOM

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020

Summary: The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRI

Ebert, Roger

Summary: Life and career of film critic Roger Ebert.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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

Summary: A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FLO

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Florence 2016