Summary: A look at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the integral relationship between the civil rights leaders and African American churches. Chronicles the non-violent revolution in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. The price paid was often high, but the victory led to equal access to transportation, education, public facilities, and ultimately, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOSummary: Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: Mud Creek, Texas is about to get all shook up. When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to "Elvis", its most sequined senior citizen and a black curmudgeon-in-chief, "JFK", to defeat a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking the souls from the barely living.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUBSummary: Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Picture 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: When 11-year-old Jason Ross is cut from his little league team his undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion team. In searching for a new coach, Jason comes to believe that Mack Henry is really Buck McHenry, the legendary pitcher from the old Negro Baseball Leagues. While Mack begins to coach this rag-tag team, Jason and his friends set out to prove his true identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Familes 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FINSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: Next-door neighbors John Gustafson and Max Goldman are neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rilvary when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILSummary: Mark Sway (Renfro), an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor (Jones) will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CLISummary: A young runaway breaks into an old movie palace in search of shelter on a snowy Christmas Eve. There, an old caretaker uses the ghosts and spirits of the abandoned building to turn the girl's life around. Features performances of Christmas favorites and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's arrangements of holiday classics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2001
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TRASummary: Twenty terrifying stories plus the original Pilot movie from the original first season of television's Night Gallery. Stories adapted from short stories by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft and Conrad Aiken and directed by such people as Steven Spielberg and John Badham.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGOasis
Contents: I'm Going Down (3:00) -- Completely Not Me (2:31) -- I Get Ideas (2:41) -- L8 CMMR (3:26) -- Blue Moon (4:02) -- simplethings (3:24) -- i dont wanna break (3:53) -- Wonderwall (4:21) -- It's My Birthday (Remix) (3:14) -- How Am I Different (5:03) -- Nancy From Now On (3:55) -- There's A Beast And We All Feed It (1:42) -- Free (Remix) (4:02) -- Life In Vain (Live at Austin City Limits) (4:30) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Records 2013