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: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The TARDIS doors open accidentally while the ship is still in flight. Although they have arrived back on Earth in the 1960s, a time they have been trying to return to since they all met, the travelers soon realize that something is very wrong. The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan discover that they have all been reduced in size and the world they are now exploring has dangers at every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: The deluxe two-disc DVD set includes a new 2K restoration of Ghost Town (1935) an astonishing and haunting amateur documentary about post-cinema Fort Lee. Disc One also features five films made at Champion Studios, recovered thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress and the Fort Lee Film Commission. Disc Two includes exciting NJ film rediscoveries, a slapstick comedy from director Mack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHASummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016Summary: Salvagers discover the Antonia Graza, an Italian luxury liner with a dark secret. The passenger ship has been missing since 1962, floating adrift on the Bering Sea, the salvagers claim the vessel as their own. But the Antonia Graza in not uninhabited. Once towing of the ghost ship towards harbor has begun, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GHOSummary: The Tardis narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti. The Intelligence's goal is to drain the Doctor's mind; can the Doctor sabotage the device before the Intelligence's plan comes to fruition? The release includes all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti. The Intelligence's goal is to drain the Doctor's mind; can the Doctor sabotage the device before the Intelligence's plan comes to fruition?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Australia's red heart with all of its precarious beauty, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLUContents: Season 6. Disc 31: Zod ; Sneeze ; Wither ; special features -- Disc 32: Arrow ; Reunion ; Fallout ; special features -- Disc 33: Rage ; Static ; Subterranean ; Hydro -- Disc 34 : Justice ; Labyrinth ; Crimson ; Trespass -- Disc 35: Freak ; Promise ; Combat ; Progeny -- Disc 36: Nemesis ; Noir ; Prototype ; Phantom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SMAContents: Season 1. Disc 1: Pilot ; Metamorphosis ; Hothead ; X-ray -- Disc 2: Cool ; Hourglass ; Craving ; Jitters -- Disc 3: Rogue ; Shimmer ; Hug ; Leech -- Disc 4: Kinetic ; Zero ; Nicodemus ; Stray -- Disc 5: Reaper ; Drone ; Crush ; Obscura -- Disc 6: Tempest ; special features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SMASummary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Season 4. Disc 19: Crusade ; Gone ; Facade ; Devoted -- Disc 20: Run ; Transference ; Jinx ; Spell -- Disc 21: Bound ; Scare ; Unsafe ; Pariah -- Disc 22: Recruit ; Krypto ; Sacred ; Lucy -- Disc 23: Onyx ; Spirit ; Blank ; special features -- Disc 24: Ageless ; Forever ; Commencement ; special features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SMASummary: Silas and Jamal are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of marijuana. They end up in the possession of some magical weed that enhances their brainpower during college entrance exams, thus enabling them to enter that esteemed institution of learning, Harvard University. Once firmly ensconced in the halls of academia, however, the pals run out of their supernatural supply and are forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002