Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: The white princess is a tale of power, family, love and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII officially marks of the conclusion of the War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHISummary: The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She₂s working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: After eight years on life-support, Charlie Manx finally dies and the news hits Vic hard; she can't believe it's over... and with good reason. Soon Manx is back and desperate for revenge against the woman who put him in critical condition, and her whole family -- but especially her son -- is under threat. Allies new and old on both sides are ready to battle for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NOSSummary: A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ALLSummary: An alien crashes deep into the oilfields of New Mexico with a mission: he must find the brilliant scientist Justin Falls, the one woman on earth who can help save his species. An unlikely duo, together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours. An inspired continuation of the novel by Walter Tevis and the iconic 1976 film starring David Bowie. This three-disc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. The BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Handmaid's 2018Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: After being brutally forced to fall under Negan's will, Rick now understands Negan can't be reasoned with, and any day could be the survivors' last. The communities join forces in the last stand against the Saviors as all-out war unfolds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: With the Whisperer War upon them, the collective communities must come together and possibly sacrifice all they have to find a way to silence the Whisperers once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: The survivors encounter a terrifying new threat. Everything they thought they knew about survival in this post-apocalyptic world will be challenged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SANBisson, Yannick
Summary: In Victorian Toronto, Detective Murdoch uses the latest scientific techniques to solve the city's most baffling murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURSummary: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HISCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Summary: On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bi 2Summary: The third and final season of Philip Pullman's His Dark Material trilogy returns with an adaptation of the final book in the best-loved book series, The Amber Spyglass. Season Three opens with Lyra unconscious, having been given a sleeping draught by her mother, as Will, still carrying the Subtle Knife, continues his quest to find her in this epic story of love and truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HISSummary: Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Newspaper reporter Hope Jensen goes undercover to find out who has been anonymously giving glass jars filled with money to people in need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ChSummary: 1794: War and the revolution in France hang over Britain. In Cornwall, George Warleggan grows his empire with a view to crush the Poldarks while Ross and Demelza attempt to repair their relationship. Ross must ask himself how long he can allow George's ascent to continue unchecked. Facing battles both at home and abroad, will Ross answer the call and risk losing everything he holds dear?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Po 3Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Poldark 2017Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022