Summary: Introduces 6 main characters of the American Revolution. Promotes interest in reading of biography with comedy, tragedy, error, foolishness, courage and persistence that is relevant to life today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JEASummary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This film is a journey through history, where famed photographer Edward S. Curtis explains Native American cultures in his own words, and photographs. This motion picture reconstruction of his 1911-1912 magic lantern slide show illuminates a time when Native Americans were forced from their land and cultures. It includes hundreds of photos and re-created music composed for the original 1911...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mosa Motion Graphics 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INDSummary: After Jake Blues is released from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. They decide to put their blues band back together and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLUSummary: With the Boston Harbor still stained from over-taxed British tea, a revolution is brewing in the colonies! And now England has thousands of troops headed for America's shores to squelch her subjects' freedom-loving spirit! It's up to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to convince a stubborn congress of British colonists to unite as American patriots turn the inevitable war with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015