Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

(JAZZ ENSEMBLES)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN LOU

Summary: In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALC

Music Revelation Ensemble

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MUS

New York Harp Ensemble

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL NEW

Summary: Over the past sixteen years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music's ability to blur international boundaries, blend disparate cultures, and inspire hope for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUS

Summary: A feature-length documentary about the daily struggles and joys of Palestinian olive farmers. When a group of American ultra-marathoners sets out to run 129 miles in 5 days across the West Bank they discover that in replanting uprooted olive trees they are planting hope and building cultural bridges.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Hut Studios 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEO

Summary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLO

Summary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THA

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Follows five bands performing Gypsy music for six weeks across North America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GYP

Summary: An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEA

chat loading...
Back to Top