Summary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: After an unfavorable critique drives uptight, young calligrapher Sei Handa past his breaking point, his parents decide to ship him off to Japan's Goto Islands to cool off. But instead of a peaceful paradise, Handa discovers a village full of quirky characters with little regard for personal space. On top of that, Handa₂s temporary apartment has already been claimed as home base by the village...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BARDavis, Sarah
Summary: Learn the alphabet and letter sounds with this fun first ABC book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: My name is nobody (116 min., 1973): A brash young gunslinger tries to convince a famous but retired gunfighter to enter a shoot-out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Direct Source Special Products 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN WESSummary: Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AGRSummary: Irene is with her elderly paramour, on the Riviera, to celebrate her birthday. When he falls asleep on her, she decides to slip down to the hotel bar. There, she mistakes barman Jean for a wealthy guest. He encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. The following year, the same thing happens. This time her lover finds out and disowns her. Knowing Jean is a barman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Davis, Sarah
Summary: Encourage talking and build vocabulary with this fun first word-and-picture book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DAVSummary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELSummary: Synapse Films presents the complete series of HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR in its original airdate order. In 1980, Hammer House produced a series of thirteen horror stories to air on British television. With a host of Hammer regulars, including Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott, along with early appearances by Pierce Brosnan, each episode provides a completely new and individual tale of terror and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HAMSummary: Documentary film about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Against a background of social stigma, addiction recovery advocates are organizing to end discrimination and move toward recovery-based solutions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANOSource Direct
Contents: Call & response -- Mind weaver -- Haunted -- Technical warfare -- Love & hate -- Capital D -- Dubstar -- Wanton conduct -- Concealed identity.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks/Virgin Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SOUSummary: Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FloSummary: An all-gun-blazing World War II action epic based on the incredible story of the '30 Commando Assault Unit, ' an elite special ops division that took on the Nazis in a top secret search-and-destroy mission behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E One 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Age 2012Summary: A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as their investigation of a young Nigerian man's murder leads them to human trafficking network spanning Scotland's rural communities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ShSummary: A modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges: that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WE
Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: Lonely Grumpy Cat lives in a mall pet shop where she never gets chosen by customers. One day during the holidays, a very special twelve-year-old girl named Chrystal enters the pet store and falls in love with Grumpy. The two form a special friendship when Chrystal discovers she is the only person who can hear this feline talk. Will Grumpy Cat finally learn the true meaning of Christmas?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks, LLC. 2014
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD GRUSummary: "Facing a changing landscape where barbed wire and railways replace the freedom of the open range, Monte Walsh (Marvin) and his fellow cowboys consider new work opportunities, toy with the idea of 'settling down', and draw their pistols for one last showdown."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ghost Sir Simon has been haunting the empty Canterville castle for twenty years when a family of newly rich Americans, the Otises, moves in. At first elated to have new victims, Sir Simon quickly discovers the Otises might be too tough for his tricks. On their part, the Otises may not be fazed by a ghost, but the frosty reception they receive from their new neighbors has potential to chill them...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022