Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: After a train accident, the hands of a concert pianist are amputated and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer, triggering his slow descent into madness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HANSummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVASummary: Disguised as Zorro, a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black, Don Diego Vega works to restore his father, the deposed Alcalde, back to power and return tax money stolen by the villanous tyrant--while finding time to romance the tyrant's beautiful niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MASSummary: Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his film's dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THRSummary: " ... Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHASummary: Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a rundown shack. On top of that, he learns that the object of his affection is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick set pieces...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURSummary: An understudy at the Paris Opéra is guided to stardom by a mysterious and compelling voice that emanates from behind the walls of her dressing room. The voice eventually summons her to a meeting, and she discovers a sinister man whose face is covered by a mask. He demands that she give up her fiancé and devote herself to him and her music. She agrees, but he later finds she has deceived him and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PhaSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012