Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZER RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZeFears, J. Rufus.
Summary: Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938.09 FAMFalk, Peter
Summary: When Nicky goes on the run from the mob, he calls his old friend Mikey and the two men reminisce about old times while hiding out from gangsters in the streets of Philadelphia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIKFears, J. Rufus
Summary: Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma presents lectures concerning the history of freedom from ancient civilization to the twentieth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 HISCall number: DVD 909 HIS PART 1
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Fears, J. Rufus.
Summary: Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938.09 FAMSummary: A band of drug addicts, led by a husband and wife team, resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRUSummary: Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Fantastic 2010Copies Available at East Bay
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FANSummary: In this atmospheric, nerve-straining chiller, two young twins confined to an isolated country house transform their resentment towards their mother into a fatal illusion about her identity. In the heat of the summer, a lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: A contemporary take on the classic series about a new elite federalized task force whose mission is to wipe out the crime that washes up on the Islands' sun-drenched beaches.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A new military drama that follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan, and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions the country can ask of them. Jason Hayes is the respected, intense leader of the Tier One team whose home life has suffered as a result of his extensive warrior's existence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Se 1Summary: A coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou Province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school in daily gymnastics, he is told he must wear a clean, new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELESummary: Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, the celebration is still racially segregated. Go into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, the director traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry. From the crowns, the gowns, the surreal masks, to the enormous paper mache...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORDSummary: An electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones's bold aesthetic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GRASummary: Based on Michael Dobbs' best-selling novel about a man who schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals, and the bodies of those who oppose him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOUSummary: The royal tour is a groundbreaking special, produced and hosted by Peter Greenberg, that will showcase Mexico in a way no visitor has ever seen the country before -- through the eyes of its leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 MexSummary: "Director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can't gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Non-Fic GSummary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROCSummary: The well-meaning Jim Hacker, a newly appointed Cabinet Minister, battles career civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YESSummary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: The hit military drama SEAL Team storms into its sixth season, as this elite unit of Navy SEALs led by Jason Hayes, must rebound from a devastating ambush on the battlefield that leaves the team forever altered and the team's future unknown. The collection features every highly-charged episode, along with over 60 minutes of exclusive special features, including deleted scenes a gag reel, and more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2023