Summary: Collection of several behind-the-scenes films and television shows highlighting the work of Walt Disney Studios, originally released between 1937 and 1957.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEHSummary: The film will feature one of Williams' last full-length interviews for the series, including never-before-seen comments on his life and comedic and dramatic work, as well as tributes to Williams by those who knew and worked with him, along with clips from moments throughout his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD ROBContents: disc 1. Broke (79:00) / director, Billy Corben ; 9.79 (79:00) / director, Daniel Gordon -- disc 2. There's no place like home (59:00) / directors, Maura Mandt and Josh Swade ; Benji (77:00) / directors, Coodie and Chike ; Ghosts of Ole Miss (51:00) / director, Fritz Mitchell -- disc 3. You don't know Bo (76:00) / director, Michael Bonfiglio ; Survive and advance (101:00) / director, Jonathan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Travel with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from John O'Groats to Cape Town descending through Western Europe and Africa before arriving at the southern most tip of the continent. On their journey their endurance, biking skills and friendship are tested to the limit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LONSummary: Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. Historical footage is enhanced with vocal performances, and interviews with historians provide the viewer with both current and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2005
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ONEDonlea, Charlie
Summary: The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history-a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONSummary: Join zoologist Nigel Marven as he traipses through the eons on a quest to find the largest land animals that ever lived. Watch Marven's encounters with various dinosaurs, each brought to stunning life through computer animation techniques.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video Inc. 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHASummary: An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc CSummary: Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth--and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-edge scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers a view of the invasion of Panama that was not given by the American media. Presents evidence of mass burials of civilian casualties and internment of homeless civilians which was concealed by the U.S. military or went unreported. Also claims to reveal Pres. Bush's "secret agenda" behind the invasion: to keep U.S. military bases in Panama after the year 2000 in defiance of canal treaties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PANSummary: "Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He's also a funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead -- and the living -- for three generations. For the first time, Lynch agreed to allow cameras inside Lynch & Sons, giving FRONTLINE producers Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor rare, behind-the-scenes access -- from funeral arrangements to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV UNDSummary: Mexico, our neighbor to the south, is a country rich in culture and ablaze with color. Journey through the seasons and discover the hidden underworlds, diversity of life, and a mosaic of vast landscapes that create a festival of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WONSummary: In comparison to cancer, heart disease, and AIDS, Alzheimer's disease greatly lags in research funding, media attention, and celebrity support. Examine the personal and societal implications of this discrepancy, profiling families living with Alzheimer's, interviewing the doctors on the front lines, and scrutinizing the latest research.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALZSummary: Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BARSummary: After Columbus discovered America came the men to make a conquest. From all corners of the world, explorers reached the shores of the New World to reap untold riches, seek new routes to the Far East, and gain the most elusive glory of all--a place in history. A sweeping saga of bravery, cruelty and pure folly, these are the stories of adventurers who stopped at nothing to conquer an unknown...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Network 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CONSummary: Ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative. Places World War I in its proper global context, dispelling the conventional myth of the war as a European conflict only. The human tragedy is placed in a wider political and military context, going beyond the Western Front to encompas the entire world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DD Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIRSummary: This explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PROSummary: Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SILSummary: As the earth warms, sea levels rise, and super-storms become more frequent and intense; many major coastal cities will soon be under water. Sinking Cities shows New York, London, Tokyo and Miami preparing for the real-time impact of rising seas and devising colossal new construction projects, and groundbreaking solutions aimed at securing their future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SINSummary: Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But then 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home to confront his pain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CATSummary: The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. This program highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRASummary: Through actual contruction footage and interviews with historians, ABC's Jack Smith tells the story of this true modern marvel-- built on a 60,000-ton steel frame with 6,500 windows, 73 elevators and 8 high-speed escalators.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC News 1999
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EMPSummary: Follow Dr. Kenny Broad as he dives into blue holes, the underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. With an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists, Broad investigates the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this spectacularly beautiful 'alternate universe.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2010