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Andersen, Christopher P. Elizabeth Fritz, Jean. Goodman, Alison Logue, Mark. Quinn, Julia Stine, MeganSummary: Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MADSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 2Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2018Quinn, Julia
Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction QuinnSummary: The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRO NOT RATEDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 1Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2017Summary: 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: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCSummary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYFritz, Jean.
Summary: A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GEOGoodman, Alison
Summary: In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GOOAndersen, Christopher P.
Summary: "Since the day Charles Philip Arthur George was born, he has been groomed to be King. After more than seventy years of waiting, he finally ascends the throne. The King examines the private life of this historically important and controversial figure, set against the grand, thousand-year sweep of the British monarchy. This richly detailed biography covers it all, from his military training to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLES III ANDSummary: Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye and the attention of his parents, Prince...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOSSummary: James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BERSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Logue, Mark.
Summary: Presents the life of the Australian speech therapist who helped the English king, George VI, overcome a lifelong speech disorder and become an eloquent leader of his people during the difficult days of World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 941.084 LOGLogue, Mark.
Summary: Albert, Duke of York began to see speech therapist Lionel Logue in a desperate bid to cure his lifelong stammer. Little did the two men know that this unlikely friendship would ultimately save the House of Windsor from collapse. The amiable Logue gave the shy young Duke the skills and the confidence to stand and deliver before a crowd. And when his elder brother, Edward VIII, abdicated the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.084 LOGSummary: Errol Flynn's farewell to big-budget swashbuckling has him playing the legenday Don Juan, the Spanish lover who fights to save the Queen Margaret and her King from the treacherous machinations of her minister, Duke de Lorca.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVSummary: Portrays the acclaimed British actress and courtesan Lillie Langtry from the blush of youth to the blight of old age. At a time when society expected women to be docile and demure, Lillie posed for celebrity endorsements, conducted her own business affairs, and paid her first husband to keep his distance. Even more scandalously, she openly entertained a string of lovers among Europe's elite,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LIL NOT RATEDSummary: "Rare and fascinating films preserved in the museum's archives. Many have never been released to the public before and are presented here, complete and uncut, for the very first time. ... [These 24 training and public information films cover a] range of subjects from ditching procedures for Halifax bomber crews ... to the best way to rescue crashed fighter pilots from their cockpits. There are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROYStine, Megan
Summary: "In 1936, the life of ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York changed forever. Although she was a member of the British royal family, she never expected to become queen. But when her uncle Edward gave up the throne, suddenly her father was the new king, which meant young Elizabeth was next in line! Queen Elizabeth has reigned since 1953, and while there are palaces galore, the crown jewels, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ELISummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THEElizabeth
Summary: Drawn from the wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle, this collection of letters, written by Queen Elizabeth from her earliest childhood to the end of her life, reveals the real womahn behind the public face.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 ELISummary: A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in World War II, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely 20 years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021