Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: This is the shocking true story of the Battle of Isandlwana: in January 1879, arrogant officials of the British colony of Natal, Africa issued a list of unauthorized ultimatums to the Zulu Nation. When the Zulu king refused their demands, the empire declared war. And in a series of grave tactical blunders, a garrison of 1,500 British soldiers faced an army of 25,000 enraged Zulu warriors in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ZULSummary: The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WomanCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMSummary: The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England. Includes Extended; Theatrical; and First Cuts. Also contains Making 'The New World', a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA NEWSummary: "William Boston has just joined the all-black 24th infantry of the United States Army. A natural leader, Boston quickly rises within his troop and is looked up to by the others. When the men are sent to the South, where racism runs rampant in a merciless community, the troop is pushed to their limit. After endless brutal acts of violence, Boston and the men turn their fear and rage against the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 24THCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANSummary: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PathfinderCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PATSummary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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4 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chaperone 2019Summary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie ForSummary: Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF I
Summary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: In the midst of epic violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GATSummary: Profiles two great leaders, warriors, and diplomats of the First Nations of North America, offering an alternative, previously overlooked, history of Canada and the USA. Blends documentary with historical re-enactments and interviews with their descendants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Galafilm 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Europe tackles prejudice, exile, displacement and adaptation, as told from the perspective of the author's alter ego, nine year-old Anna Kemper. Anna is too busy with schoolwork and friends to notice Hitler's face glaring from posters plastered all over 1933 Berlin. But when her father suddenly vanishes, the family is secretly hurried...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARLiulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2
Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GANSummary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSummary: Explores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016