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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 BURSummary: This series chronicles the history of New York City from its beginnings in 1609 as a Dutch trading post, through the depression, onto the turbulent years of change in the following decades after WWII, to its present day status as one of the most important and influential cities in the world. The final episode was created in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NEWSummary: A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLIContents: Benediction piano (2:06) -- Benediction orchestral (3:37) -- Cowboy song (2:17) -- Marias River breakdown (5:08) -- American open (4:08) -- To the summit (3:34) -- Starting out (2:21) -- Sky (4:08) -- Searching (2:58) -- American open piano (1:36) -- Ansel's theme (2:47) -- Benediction piano reprise (3:09) -- High Sierra (3:33) -- Bach prelude (3:01) -- American open reprise (5:40) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Linnet Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ANSSummary: Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DRISummary: Chronicles the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WAYSummary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WESummary: An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc CSummary: Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: A portrait of the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANDSummary: "Portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist-for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2002
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANSSummary: Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. The program traces his life from his early days in New York to his last years in Boston when he suffered from tremors which kept him from his writing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006