Summary: How did the Earth transform from a hot ball of molten rock and metal into the planet that we call home? How did our continents and oceans grow? Where did our great mountain ranges come from? The geological processes that have shaped our world have also influenced the way humans have populated the planet. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this series reveals the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts and Entertainment Network 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSummary: Journey back 15,000 years to trace humankind's incredible journey through time. Beginning with humanity's exodus from the Ice Age and chronicling milestones such as hunter-gatherer, farmer, builder, and city organizer. Reveals how humankind managed to survive and conquer the world. Explores the motivation of early humankind and its epic transformation to reveal the inspiring story of he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRSummary: Examines the discovery of strange and unknown miniature hominid fossil (Homo floresiensis) remains on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Looks at the scientific debate over whether these creatures, nicknamed "hobbits," are a type of dwarf race of humans, possibly suffering from a disease such as microcephaly, or an entirely new species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALISummary: Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOL RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GoSummary: "Join us for this special Dive Travel adventure as we travel to the opposite side of the planet to Sorong, Indonesia and dive off the Ocean Rover once again at Raja Ampat, (known as the Four Kings) located west of Papua, New Guinea. Widely considered the planet's most bio-diverse coral reefs, Indonesia's Raja Ampat Archipelago has over 541 species of hard coral. This equates to over 70 percent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GRK Productions 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.23 DIVSummary: Based on the classic comic, a poignant portrayal of the notion that heroes, whether everyday or superhuman, can be found anywhere (though a superpower never hurts). Indonesian orphan Sancaka spent his life on the streets trying to attract as little attention as possible, but when greed and violence reach a fever pitch in Jakarta, it soon becomes clear that he is the people's only hope for peace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUNSummary: The title, Ring of Fire, refers to the islands of Indonesia that form a chain of active volcanos arcing down and around into the Pacific. In Borneo, the Blair Brothers travel 800 miles through rainforest to find the last of the Punan Dyaks, a tribe believed extinct. When they do, in fact, find them, the brothers are initiated into the spiritual mysteries of the "dream wanderers" and tattooed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Fire Video 1989
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Summary: A woman kills an intruder and is subsequently haunted by his spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: See some of the most remote beaches on the planet, travel to Komodo Island and see much more. Formerly known as Lonely Planet series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Escapi New Media Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.9 INDSummary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
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 PARSummary: The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ACTSummary: When a small-town girl moves to the bustling city of Jakarta, she must cope with the conflict between her traditional upbringing and the modern way of life in the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Asian Edge 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELISummary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: This 5-film series documents the ten-year voyage of brothers Lorne and Lawrence Blair through the islands of Indonesia. In "Spice Island saga," the Blairs accompany the piratical Bugis tribe through the Spice Islands in search of the Bird of Paradise. "Dance of the warriors" takes the Blairs to Komodo to film the Komodo "dragon", then on to Sumba where they witness a form of human sacrifice,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Fire Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RIND'Arcy, James
Summary: After being faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse, a group of college students at an international school in Jakarta must determine which ten of them will take shelter underground and reboot the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films (usa) Llc 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTSummary: A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TicketCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TICSummary: Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment Co. 1997