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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans Drama African Americans in motion pictures Bannister, Liz Leckie, Robert 1920-2001 Man-woman relationships Military campaigns Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant) 1923- United States United States. Marine Corps.J Lawrence F Carle
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Jewel Music Pub. 1938
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LASSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Yorckscher Marsch / Ludwig van Beethoven ; arr. J. Schade (2:32) -- Torgauer Marsch / anonym. (3:09) -- O du mein Österreich / Ferdinand Preis ; nach Franz von Suppé ; arr. L. Doblinger (2:10) -- Unter dem Grillenbanner / Wilhelm Lindemann ; nach Johann Strauß ; arr. K. Schmidt (2:43) -- Des Grossen Kurfürsten Reitermarsch / Cuno Graf von Moltke (3:04) -- Pariser Einzugsmarsch / Johann Heinrich...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MARSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LOOSummary: On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOWTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: "It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnson, Lawrence Earle.
Summary: In this thriller, an investigative reporter and a clandestine agent work together to thwart a diabolical plan using Elf waves to take over the world. It is 1981 when college student Kevin Sommers winds up dead under mysterious circumstances in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His sister Terri, an investigative reporter from Chicago, arrives in Marquette, Michigan, to begin looking into his death....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro Bernstein & Co. 1945
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMF Lawrence
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMCale, J. J.
Contents: After midnight -- Old man -- Call me the breeze -- Sensitive kind -- Cocaine -- Money talks -- River boat song -- Living here too -- Mama don't -- People lie -- Humdinger -- Thirteen days -- Magnolia -- Ride me high.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delabel 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CALCale, J. J.
Contents: Shanghaid (2:33) -- Hold on baby (3:01) -- No time (3:13) -- Lady luck (2:40) -- Disadvantage (3:34) -- Lean on me (3:18) -- End of the line (3:07) -- New Orleans (2:32) -- Tijuana (3:52) -- That kind of thing (3:17) -- Who's talking (3:26) -- Change your mind (2:25) -- Humdinger (3:23) -- River boat song (3:06).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Silvertone 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CALSummary: In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WATSummary: 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: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIWarnock, Caleb (Caleb J.)
Summary: Using truly simple techniques cultivated by the early Mormon pioneers, the author presents a guide to self-sufficient living with an emphasis on homegrown food.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bonneville Books 2011