Summary: 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: 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: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEASummary: Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies is the odd man out in his small London police station. He cracks the tough cases anyway, with old-fashioned investigative work rather than violent confrontation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media U.S. 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: After her sister dies in childbirth, a young orthodox Jewish woman's family pressures her to marry her brother-in-law rather than entering into an arranged marriage with a man closer to her age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FILSummary: Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except Davies. Bunny Hopper is half of the almost-famous comedy team Bunny...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILEisenberg, Jesse
Summary: Follows the five-day interview between Rolling Stone report David Lipsky and novelist David Foster Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY END1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF END
Summary: An absorbing portrait of the filmmaker David Lynch, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles, in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAVSummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.'s journey to create his own identity, as a black man who embraced Judaism, through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress; a veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions, he strove to stay relevant, even as he found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America. Features new interviews with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SAMSummary: "Musician Daryl Davis has an unusual hobby. He's played all over the world with legends like Chuck Berry and Little Richard, but it's what Daryl does in his free time that sets him apart. In an effort to find out how anyone can 'hate me without knowing me' he takes an interesting line of research. Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan, something few black men can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCSummary: When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Underdog detective 'Dangerous' Davies toils at a small London police station, where his slicker colleagues taunt him and his boss calls him the last detective he would put on a big case. That makes it all the sweeter when he cracks the big ones anyway.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Or, a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But her real full-time job is looking after her mother who has worked as a street prostitute for 20 years. The daughter must make a choice between taking care of her mother's bottomless needs or having an uncorrupted life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORSummary: Underdog detective 'Dangerous' Davies toils at a small London police station, where his slicker colleagues taunt him and his boss calls him the last detective he would put on a big case. That makes it all the sweeter when he cracks the big ones anyway.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Presents the complete life story of Jefferson Davis in three informative and entertaining episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A laugh-out-loud real-life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams and...his parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MEE
Summary: In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ROBSummary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: It tells the incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: The first and only documentary about David Bowie authorized by the Bowie Estate, narrated by Bowie himself, explores Bowie's artistic journey over the years and illuminates many of his intellectual and artistic philosophies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal 2022