Summary: 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...
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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: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHISummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family I Can 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: Based on the classic book Curious George and the birthday surprise. Includes eight fun-filled shows from the Emmy Award-winning hit PBS Kids TV series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores the lesser-known tale of George's creators, Hans and Margret Rey. Years later, having heard that Hans was wasting his artistic talents as a bookkeeper in Rio, Margaret traveled to Brazil to persuade him to marry her and do something creative together. Arriving in New York as refugees, they started their life anew and over the next three decades, they created a classic that continues to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSummary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Summary: No one will ever mistake Jeff Reigert for Moses, but like Moses, it is Jeff's job to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. However, Jeff is not exactly the picture of virtue. In fact, Jeff is surrounded by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets. He is so busy juggling his wife Gretchen and his girlfriend, that he can barely get through a single commandment without breaking one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TENSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: As a former outlaw turned wagon train guide, Stewart is pitted against warring Indians, murderous hijackers and a traitorous ally as he attempts to lead a group of settlers through the treacherous Oregon wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BENSummary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Creature from the Black Lagoon: Members of a scientific expedition to the Amazon discover a gruesome half man/half fish creature. Revenge of the Creature: A monster, half man and half fish, kills two men and abducts a woman ichthyologist after escaping from the tank where it is chained. The creature walks among us: Despite the clear intention of enjoying his watery home deep in the Everglades,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CRESummary: The tale of the first meeting between Tigger and Pooh. Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's house from eating too much honey, and there's a flurry of activity on a windy day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MANSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI LIQSummary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: "George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are having a very merry time counting down the days until Christmas. There's only one puzzle: neither of them can figure out what to give the other for a present ... Will they be able to find the answers before Christmas morning?"--Publisher
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURSummary: Ted heads to Africa in search of exhibits that will bolster the popularity of his friend's natural history museum, where he is befriended by George, a very curious monkey that leads Ted on a never-ending series of adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Curious 2006Summary: A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020