Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Musician Daryl Davis has an unusual hobby. He's played all over the world with legends like Chuck Berry and Little Richard, but it's what Daryl does in his free time that sets him apart. In an effort to find out how anyone can 'hate me without knowing me' he takes an interesting line of research. Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan, something few black men can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCSummary: The true life story of Christian music megastar Jeremy Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope in the midst of tragedy, and that faith tested is the only faith worth sharing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD STISummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUCCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCSummary: Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? As of 2019, in the US, there were only 34,000 new cases of the disease, a feat that once seemed near-impossible to achieve.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ENDSummary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED RSummary: She wore a yellow ribbon : Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. 3 Godfathers: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Examines entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.'s journey to create his own identity, as a black man who embraced Judaism, through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress; a veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions, he strove to stay relevant, even as he found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America. Features new interviews with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SAMSummary: From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KINSummary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016Summary: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOYSummary: Explores the full arc of George Washington's journey and weaves together dramatic live-action sequences, excerpts from Washington's letters and insights from a roster of notable experts, historians, and scholars to tell a very personal story about the evolution of one of history's most iconic leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WASSummary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGSummary: At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEGSummary: Newly released from prison, an ex-con assembles his professional pals and plans a multi-million dollar robbery of an entire luxury apartment house. He is unaware that a hoard of lawmen are recording their activities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ANDSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRESummary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007