Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED GSummary: Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BADSummary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURSummary: Based on a best-selling book, a five-part true crime docu-series investigates the unsolved murders of eight women whose bodies were discovered in drainage canals and on desolate back roads in and around Jennings, Louisiana. In examining the lives of the young victims the series uncovers secrets of the troubled town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURSummary: Over 50,000 dogs and cats were left behind in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as FEMA required that all animals be left behind in the mandatory evacuation. This forced separation created America's first-ever major animal rescue. This film tells many uplifting stories of hope and survival as animal companions (pets) are reunited with their owners while other lucky animals find...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shidog Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DARSummary: The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Roberto Miniverni tells the story of a black community in the American South during summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of young African American men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country that is not on their side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kim Stim 2020
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASummary: New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: "This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 363.34 TROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROGoodman, John
Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the short story by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SKYSummary: This final season of the hit series, Duck Dynasty, follows the Robertson family as they conquer new family milestones while showcasing their down-home Southern charm. Tune in as the family spends a weekend at their childhood summer camp. Lil' Will shops for his first car, Reed gets married, Rowdy's adoption becomes official, and Gus turns 11.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUCSummary: This season follows the Robertson family as they conquer new milestones while showcasing their down-home Southern charm. Willie and Korie celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary as well as introduce fans to their newly adopted son, Rowdy. Additionally, Jase's son Reed surprises his girlfriend with a marriage proposal in New York City, Si goes to court to fight a parking ticket, Sadie checks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUCSummary: Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANTSummary: Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, season five goes deep into the battle between the Vampire Authority and 'vampire fundamentalists': a political power play whose outcome could decide not only the fate of Sookie and her Bon Temps friends, but of all human existence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: When Sara and her friends arrive at her family's Louisiana lake house, they quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of sexy fun in the sun. But they soon discover the lake is infested with hundreds of flesh-eating sharks, and a few equally dangerous human predators, that turn their killer vacation into a bone-crunching battle to stay alive!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") returns in the explosive second season of Your Honor. Disbarred, disgraced, and all but destroyed, ex-judge Michael Desiato is offered a ray of hope when a federal agent recruits him to take down the empire of corruption and vengeance that runs New Orleans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV YOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YOUStreep, Meryl
Summary: Examines Louisiana before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina and explains the importance of restoring the wetlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HURSummary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Curious 2009Summary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWSummary: It explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as 'the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.' Lily Keber's roller coaster portrait traces Booker's life from his early years as a chart-topping child prodigy, to his star-studded years touring and playing as a sideman, through his outrageous solo career in America...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016