Summary: This silent film showcases the people and places of Traverse City, Michigan in 1940, featuring local churches, schools, businesses, families and social gatherings. In the film, The Traverse City Exchange Club invites famous Hollywood director "Gary Owens" to preside over a Movie Queen contest in which the winner will receive a Hollywood contract. The film was originally produced as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Center of Traverse City 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 917.7464 WERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE'RE1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 We're
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local We'reSummary: Depicts the history of the festival designed to promote area tourism from the May 1925, first Blessing of the Blossoms, to the first summer harvest festival 1n 1928, into the Depression years when it manipulated the media and thrust itself into the nation's limelight, and beyond. It is the story of Traverse City community volunteering and sacrificing to make the city hospitable and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Forgotten Films & Video, (P.O. Box 229, Traverse City, MI 49685) 1995
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHESummary: In a laboratory, a team of engineers create a replica of Beijing's Forbidden City to uncover the secrets underlying its ability to withstand earthquakes over the centuries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: A beguiling murderer charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bells 2003Summary: As the earth warms, sea levels rise, and super-storms become more frequent and intense; many major coastal cities will soon be under water. Sinking Cities shows New York, London, Tokyo and Miami preparing for the real-time impact of rising seas and devising colossal new construction projects, and groundbreaking solutions aimed at securing their future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SINSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victoria 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 3Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VICSummary: Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Newly elected Congressman Roy Rogers attempts to bring attention to his constituents' farms that are being decimated by the Dust Bowl. Now that a water company has built a dam and is charging the farmers exorbitant rates for water, Roy must convince a group of important Senators to help him and the farmers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNDSummary: At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. When she chooses the younger of the two, the embittered older brother travels to Europe where he becomes a ruthless mercenary. But a revolution takes a personal twist with one brother hanging on the edge of life and death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DUSSummary: The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOWSummary: It traces the events that led McVeigh to that day and recounts the stories of the survivors, first-responders, US Marshals, FBI investigators, and journalists who covered the events. The film provides an in-depth and provocative exploration of the white supremacist, extremist militia movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s and still makes news today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUDSummary: Krill are tiny, shrimp-like creatures crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem and, maybe, to the future of all oceans. Join the research ship Polarstern in the vast Antarctic ice pack in search of ice caves and juvenile krill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSSummary: The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave, and debonair. Walter is not. But when events take an unexpected turn, this unlikely duo is forced to team up for the ultimate mission that will require an almost impossible disguise, transforming Lance into the brave, fierce, majestic pigeon. Walter and Lance suddenly have to work as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPICopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD SpiesSummary: Could the source of the world's deadliest viruses hold the secret to a healthier and longer life? Bats have a sinister reputation as potential sources for some of the deadliest disease outbreaks: Ebola, MERS, SARS, and most recently, SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BATSummary: This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASISummary: Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Don't change your husband: Leila Porter, tired of her dull husband, leaves him for another man who turns out to be a two-timing playboy. Leila then encourages her first husband to pursue her again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed Exclusively by Image Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DONSummary: "Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017