Summary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOWSummary: The white princess is a tale of power, family, love and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII officially marks of the conclusion of the War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHISummary: Summary: Richard Dawkins discusses the evolution of species and mankind in particular in relation to the massiveness of the universe, and explains the process of natural selection and genetics. Also discusses the evolution of purposes and goals, and the differences between designed and designoid objects in nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Dawkins Foundation 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GROSummary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FOXSummary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SLASummary: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow star as a long-married couple whose own relationship starts to crumble when their best friends, announce they're separating. They immediately pair-up with younger, sexier paramours and enjoy again the pleasures of fresh passion. But smoldering resentments and unexpected jealousies soon rise to the surface, erupting in savage humor and hilariously unpredictable reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUSSummary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Avengers 2018Summary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE AVESummary: Judge Harold T. Stone, Dan, Bull, Selma, and new public defender Christine return for a rollicking second season of dispensing justice to the assorted nuts of Night Court.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1984
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGPollak, Kay
Summary: A successful conductor with health problems suddenly leaves his job and returns to his childhood home in Sweden, and finds himself drawn to the unusual characters, one woman in particular, when he begins helping out the local church choir.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSummary: "Sinatra: all or nothing at all is an up-close and personal examination of the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra's life together with rarely seen footage of Sinatra's famous 1971 'Retirement' Concert in Los Angeles....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SINSummary: Seabiscuit is the remarkable tale of a thoroughbred racehorse and down-and-out jockey John "Red" Pollard, an ex-prizefighter. Together they become hard luck heroes for a troubled nation and two of the most celebrated sports figures of the twentieth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video ; a Hollywood, CA 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEASummary: An aspiring artist and the aspiring singer he loves join the most berserk brood of sun-and-funners on Nantucket Island in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: "It's the Comedy Central roast of William Shatner. Watch as he's feted by comics and co-stars alike, ranging from Andy Dick, Greg Giraldo, Patton Oswalt, and Fred Willard to fellow "Trekkers" George Takei and Nichelle Nichols. Whether it's Jeffrey Ross lambasting Shatner's overacting or "The Queen of Mean" Lisa Lampanelli commenting on his one-of-a-kind singing career, you won't want to miss it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMMitchell, Millard
Summary: An infamous gunslinger tries to give up his life of violence, but his reputation gets in the way of his plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GUNSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SELSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13Holland, Andre
Summary: A series of horror stories play out in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CASSummary: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2016
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSummary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTDi Palma, Carlo
Summary: Explores the life and career of Italian cinematographer Carlo Di Palma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WATSummary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020