Filter By Subjects
(Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule Drama Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Television adaptations Impressionism (Art) Man-woman relationships Drama Murder Investigation Private investigators Realism in art Romanticism in artFilter By Subjects
(Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule Drama Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Television adaptations Impressionism (Art) Man-woman relationships Drama Murder Investigation Private investigators Realism in art Romanticism in artSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ALFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HITSummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EMPSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson before them, the brilliant but curmudgeonly Nero Wolfe and his streetwise sidekick Archie Goodwin are crime's greatest nemeses. With Nero preferring to solve crimes at home amid his orchid collection, it is Archie who does the legwork about town to allow Wolfe to unravel the most confounding crimes. Together the duo cracks cases of murder, deception, blackmail,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Studios Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NERSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: Agatha Christie's world famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of French TV movies, sexy, witty and definitely addictive! Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie style. Chief Inspector Laurence, a man of class and refined taste, and the young ambitious journalist Alice Avril, along with Laurence's ever loyal secretary, Marlene....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AGASummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYGlyndebourne Chorus
Summary: Opera revolving around the fatal tensions that develop between a young sailor, the malevolent master-at-arms, and the captain aboard a British man o' war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BILSummary: Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are adapted in a series of French TV movies. Set in the 1930s, these iconic stories introduce two new investigators in classic Christie style: Superintendent Larosière, whose passion for beautiful women is matched only by his love of solving puzzling crimes, and his young colleague Inspector Lampion, whose modern sensibilities sometimes clash with those...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks, LLC. 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LITArtist Not Provided
Summary: Adventures of the monkey Curious George and his friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURSummary: Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a variety of mysteries with the help of his friends Captain Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POISummary: Agatha Christie's astute Belgian detective is on the case in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Beautifully remastered, these definitive adaptations capture the unrivalled elegance of the Art Deco era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Annis, Francesca.
Summary: The husband and wife team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford take over a detective agency in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the un paralleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Putting his brilliant intellect and fastidious nature to the test, Agatha Christie₂s famous Belgian detective solves the most mystifying crimes of the Art Deco era in these newly remastered adaptations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POITeatro Alla Scala
Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRASummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004