Filter By Subjects
African Americans Social life and customs Estados Unidos Historia 2001- Estados Unidos Relaciones exteriores Siglo XXI Founding Fathers of the United States Harlem Cultural Festival. Heroes in motion pictures New York (State) New York Rock music United States Wrecking Crew (Musical group)Filter By Subjects
African Americans Social life and customs Estados Unidos Historia 2001- Estados Unidos Relaciones exteriores Siglo XXI Founding Fathers of the United States Harlem Cultural Festival. Heroes in motion pictures New York (State) New York Rock music United States Wrecking Crew (Musical group)Summary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACSummary: Explores the life of Dante Alighieri and his most prolific work, "The divine comedy", through reenactments and interviews with experts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Narrated by Tony-and Academy Award-winner Joel Grey, this entertaining documentary mingles cultural history with illuminating perspectives on the origins and meanings of some of Broadway's most beloved songs, stories, and shows. With performances by Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Barbra Streisand, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and many more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BROSummary: "In African American History: From Emancipation through Jim Crow, join Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of African American history at The Ohio State University, to learn about the African American struggle for freedom and civil rights from 1865 to the 1940s. In 12 lectures, accompany Hasan on a journey from Reconstruction to Jackie Robinson's first Major League Baseball game,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AFRSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects. The film vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOSummary: Chronicles the lives and careers of Harold Michelson, a storyboard artist and production designer, and his wife Lillian, a film researcher, who eloped to Hollywood in 1947 and worked for six decades, their combined filmography totaling hundreds of movies for which their contributions went mostly uncredited.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: A comprehensive retrospective of the action film genre over the past 50 years, from the earliest westerns to the contemporary movies of today. Features interviews with directors, screenwriters, actors, film critics and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSummary: With a healthy dose of insight and wit, takes an inside look at the Park Slope Food Coop, one of America's most successful cooperative food supermarkets. In Brooklyn NY, in the shadow of Wall Street, an institution that represents a less well-known American tradition is booming. The Park Slope Food Coop, a cooperative supermarket where all 16,000 members work 2.75 hours per month to earn the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOOSummary: In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's LGBT community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. Newly restored for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this documentary pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic story of survival,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEFSummary: There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City, and for the past six years, Matt Green has been walking them all, every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WORSummary: Profiles the group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew--featuring Tommy Tedesco, guitar, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, drums, Carol Kaye, Joe Osborne, bass--who played on many rock and pop hits during the sixties. Gifted, versatile, and possessing the knack for turning a simple tune into something memorable, the Wrecking Crew were the players who turned the Wall of Sound in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WRESummary: Insiders' observations of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation, featuring commentary from high-ranking officials, Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the U.S. policy decisions surrounding the invasion and their consequences in Iraq, including such issues as low U.S. troop levels, the uncontrolled looting of Baghdad, the purging of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NO
Summary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: The true story of the legendary Z100 New York radio station following the colorful characters that started the station in the early '80s, and how they used unconventional and outlandish methods to go from New York City's worst-rated radio station to number one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WORSummary: Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century, exploring Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and a showcase for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while exposing unintended consequences of the sport's integration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LEASummary: The revealing documentary of Earth explores the planet's most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed center stage. We see what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud, including massive bombardments from space, extreme...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV EARSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNSummary: Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016