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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACSummary: 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: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKSummary: A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour with renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLUSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEASummary: Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: The leader of this crime-solving trio is Shake, a cranky, cynical beverage with a pink flex-straw driven into his frosty top. The chief problem solver in the bunch is Frylock, who resembles a sack of fast-food fries crossed with the Red Devil from the paint cans. Meatwad's name couldn't be more appropriately descriptive, and he's the good-natured softy in the bunch. The three live together near...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AQUSummary: The leader of this crime-solving trio is Shake, a cranky, cynical beverage with a pink flex-straw driven into his frosty top. The chief problem solver in the bunch is Frylock, who resembles a sack of fast-food fries crossed with the Red Devil from the paint cans. Meatwad's name couldn't be more appropriately descriptive, and he's the good-natured softy in the bunch. The three live together near...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AQUSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The leader of this crime-solving trio is Shake, a cranky, cynical beverage with a pink flex-straw driven into his frosty top. The chief problem solver in the bunch is Frylock, who resembles a sack of fast-food fries crossed with the Red Devil from the paint cans. Meatwad's name couldn't be more appropriately descriptive, and he's the good-natured softy in the bunch. The three live together near...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AQUSummary: Perseus goes on a quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CLASummary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIESummary: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy decide to play hide-and-seek, and during the game Lucy discovers a mysterious wardrobe. She tucks herself inside and backs to the rear of the cabinet, there she finds herself in an entirely different world. The place is called Narnia, and it's been locked in winter for over 100 years by someone known as "The White Witch."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this spoof of the legend of King Arthur, the king recruits the Knights of the Round Table. He is soon joined by Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Chaste and the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film. God sends them on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Along the way they encounter a plague-ridden community, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MONSummary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TuskegeeSummary: "Detective Chief Inspector George Gently ... returns to the job six months after he and his sergeant, John Bacchus ... were gravely injured in the line of duty. Both officers appear to be on the mend, physically at least. ... At a time of changing attitudes and values in Britain, Gently and Bacchus are undergoing transitions of their own ... set in 1969"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GEOSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015