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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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV MATSummary: Chronicles the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WAYSummary: First permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the Pilgrims arrived in 1565. America's Untold Story uncovers the story of America's past that never made it into textbooks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The American Buffalo delves into over 10,000 years of North American history, exploring the evolution and significance of buffalo to Native American people on the Great Plains and highlighting the near-extinction of the American buffalo, driven by factors such as the buffalo robe trade, westward expansion, diseases, and drought. The second episode follows a diverse group, including Theodore...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMESummary: The Great Lakes and connecting waterways, have been at the center of the traditional and contemporary economics for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a Tribe that was relocated to this region-the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin who care for these lands. Natural resources have been the Tribes' main economy-the famous Red Lake walleye and wild rice lakes. Growing Native Host Stacey Thunder (Red Lake and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 355 Warrior 2019Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: How did the Earth transform from a hot ball of molten rock and metal into the planet that we call home? How did our continents and oceans grow? Where did our great mountain ranges come from? The geological processes that have shaped our world have also influenced the way humans have populated the planet. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this series reveals the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts and Entertainment Network 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSummary: An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORSummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHESummary: 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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KLASummary: They were one of the most famous, and infamous teams in college history. Arriving on the campus at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1991, these five freshmen (Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson) not only electrified the game, but also brought new style to the masses with their baggy shorts, black socks, and brash talk. Now viewers can see them in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FABSummary: Travel along the Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, through seven national parks and 24 national forests. You'll travel through California, Oregon and Washington, seeing what two to three hundred hikers who attempt the PCT each year see on their journey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Video 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.904 PAC1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PAC
Summary: In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLISummary: Get up close to the wildlife, see the many natural wonders of Cape Town, drive along the beautiful coastline, and visit the village of Franschhoek, in the heart of wine country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.804 BESSummary: Justine Shapiro follows the Blue Ridge Parkway, journeying to Tennessee and the city of Nashville. She visits its famous country music sites and the old plantation home of US President, Andrew Jackson. Justine then hits the legendary Route 66, stopping at a giant cattle auction in Oklahoma City. She then joins the 'Trail of Tears' memorial walk for Native Americans before crossing the Texas...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 GLOSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DUSSummary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014