Summary: Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects: the car, the airplane, the smartphone, the rocket, the robot, and the telescope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRESummary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TONSummary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OFSummary: Eric Clapton headlines a festival featuring some of the world's greatest guitar players including Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ERISummary: It takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. The film visits blues musicians rooted in the genre's heyday, many in their '80s, still living in the American deep south and touring the Chitlin' Circuit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ISummary: At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OlSummary: Independent journalists like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbi are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Cameras follow as they expose government and corporate deception; just as the ground-breaking independent journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ALLSummary: Capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself the documentary explores the publication's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CRESummary: Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas),...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ECHSummary: "Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For most of the history of medicine, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENSummary: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GHOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GHOSummary: A fantasy adventure based on the Arthurian legend, the film tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's headstrong nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous knight, a gigantic tree-like creature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRESummary: Features Holly Near in live concert footage, backstage interview segments, and reading from her autobiography. New interviews with Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HOLSummary: A vivid look at America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine. Centered through editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, as well as an impressive array of passionate writers, the film is a journey into the soul of American Journalism. With unfettered access and unfiltered honesty, it captures the day-to-day pressures and challenges of publishing a weekly magazine, as well as illuminating how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOTSummary: The film brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's twelve year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JULSummary: Two-time Critics Choice Award-winner Tatiana Maslany returns in the pulse-racing third season of Orphan Black. After the shocking discovery of Project Castor, Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missing twin Helena and an ailing Cosima searches for the key to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ORPSummary: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to Deborah, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAMSummary: "Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD YELArtist Not Provided
Summary: Explores bees and their diversity as a wildlife cameraman films various species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ASSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ASSSummary: Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV BATSummary: It's been ten years since the creation of the Great Truce, but when a tech-savvy villain hacks into wireless networks to use frequencies only heard by cats and dogs, he manipulates them into conflict and the worldwide battle between cats and dogs is back on. Now, a team of inexperienced and untested agents will have to use their old-school animal instincts to restore order and peace between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2020