Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: World War I veteran William Wilson has everything: loving wife, good health, Wall Street career --and a "drinking problem." Penniless overnight when the stock market crashes, Bill quickly descends into a stormy sea of booze. Then he meets Bob Smith, an Ohio surgeon with the same "problem." Together they discover a way to stay sober --one day at a time, and their mutual triumph would soon become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: 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: 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: This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions, and mischievous women put love to the test, with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANMassenet, Jules
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Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MANSummary: Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLASummary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: This 6-part series will be shown on PBS in the Spring of 2006. Includes: Voyage To Kure (Parts I & II), The Gray Whale Obstacle Course, Sharks: At Risk, and America's Underwater Treasures (Parts I & II).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JEASummary: A mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker by a shadowy crime fighter (American magician Channing Pollock) spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions. Combining stylish sixties modernisms with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUDSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WHESummary: "When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Based on true events, The Conjuring tells the story of ghost hunters Lorraine and Ed Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson), who help a family terrorized by an evil spirit in their mysterious farmhouse. In The Conjuring 2, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reprise their roles as the Warrens to help a single mother alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CONSummary: After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCI Entertainment 1965
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HONSummary: Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PANSummary: Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bea in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Andy 2004Summary: Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016