Summary: In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VIVSummary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT
Summary: "After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CUBSummary: "Travel with award-winning filmmaker, Marlin Darrah, as he explores present-day Cuba. From the capital city of Havana to the beautiful seaport of Santiago de Cuba, you'll marvel at the forbidden natural beauty of Cuba. Travel to Pina del Rio and visit the lush tobacco fields that produce the most sought-after cigars in the world. See sugar plantations and colorful towns unfold before your eyes,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 CUBSummary: In 1996, music legend Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. He found gold. Looking for lost songs and forgotten singers, Cooder discovered an exotic land of passion, sensuality and music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUESummary: The remarkable story of Elian Gonzalez, a five year old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his future changed the course of US Cuban relations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELISummary: An aging Cuban fisherman, alone in a small skiff, catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea, marauding sharks, and his own flagging strength to bring his great catch home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OldCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family OldSummary: Cuba: Connery stars as a cynical mercenary poised to benefit from the political upheaval in Havana in 1959.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cuba's unspoiled tropical terrain, closed for decades by a U.S. trade embargo, escaped the commercialization of its Caribbean island neighbors. A title wave of hotels, asphalt, and pollution may be just ahead, if tourism experts are right. Look inside the long-closed paradise to see what the future holds for Cuba's unusual species of amphibians, reptiles, and fresh water fish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CUBSummary: A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEFSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Explore bustling Havana, the cigar famed Pinar del Rio region, and the musical Santiago de Cuba. Travel onto Haiti through its capital, Port au Prince and end the journey at the spectacular Citadel in Cap Haitien.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.291 CUBSummary: When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Goldeneye 2007Summary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCSummary: A rundown bus station in rural Cuba becomes the backdrop for romance and miracles in Juan Carlos Tabio's blend of magical realism and social commentary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAISummary: He stood defiantly at the center of some of the worst crises of the Cold War. After over forty years of rule, he remains one of the most controversial politcal figures of all time. Join Biography for a revealing look at the last great Communist leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIDSummary: Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, they watch as beefy guards sexually subjugate 'enemy combatants.' The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Corrieri, Sergio
Summary: In the early 1960s, a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, is also too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMEngle, Margarita.
Summary: A young girl fulfills her dreams in this video treatment of the acclaimed Pura Belpre' Award winner. -- Girls cannot be drummers. No one questioned that rule; until one dream girl. When at last her dream-bright music was heard, it was decided everybody should be free to drum and dream!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRUSummary: From filmmaker Hubert Sauper comes an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, 'utopian' Cuba. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth making together with the extraordinary people...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021