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Summary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FID

Mapes, Milton.

Contents: Great unknown -- Maybe you're here, maybe you're not -- Some to reap -- The only sound that matters -- A thousand songs about California -- Monahans -- Everyone around -- Palo duro -- This kind of danger -- Silverbell -- The sad lines.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Aspyr 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Mapes

Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Summary: Raw and smoldering, the film follows a young reggae DJ in Thatcher-era Brixton as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Fearless and unsentimental, and set to a blistering reggae, dub, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, and more, anchored by legendary producer Dennis...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAB

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Contents: Tired of cryin' (Smokey Wilson, Jimmy McCracklin, Larry Davis) -- Don't burn the bridge (Otis Clay, Little Jimmy King) -- I love someone (Eddie Hinton) -- Fear no evil (Ann Peebles) -- I'm workin' on it (Larry Davis) -- You're gonna make me cry (The Holmes Brothers) -- I'm a mad man (Byther Smith) -- How you carry on (Marcia Ball) -- Can't quit my baby (Smokin' Joe Kubek, Bnois King) -- I love...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BLU

Morton, Jelly Roll

Contents: I hate a man like you -- Don't tell me nothin' 'bout my man -- Smilin' the blues away -- Turtle twist -- My little Dixie home -- That's like it ought to be -- Each day -- If someone would only love me -- I'm looking for a little bluebird -- Little Lawrence -- Harmony blues -- Fussy Mabel -- Ponchartrain -- When they get lovin' they's gone -- You done played out blues -- Oil well - Load of coal...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Classics 1992

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

Summary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Contents: CD 1. I'm the face / The High Numbers -- Bo Street runner / The Bo Street Runners -- Country line special / Cyril Davies & his R&B All Stars -- Chills and fever / Tom Jones -- Crawling up a hill / John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- You'd better make up your mind / The Koobas -- Desdemona / John's Children -- Tick tock / Shyster -- Wasn't it you / Billie Davis -- Bus stop / The Hollies -- Tell...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Contents: Use your head (Money Mark) (2:47) -- Corcovado (Everything but the Girl) (3:56) -- Desafinado (Astrud Gilberto + George Michael (3:20) -- Non-fiction burning (PM Dawn with Flora Purim + Airto (4:31) -- The boy from Ipanema (Crystal Waters) (4:24) -- Interlude (0:14) -- Seguranca (Maxwell) (3:29) -- E preciso perdoar (Cesaria Evora + Caetano Veloso + Ryuichi Sakamoto) (6:01) -- Interlude (0:33)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RED

Summary: Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie One

Summary: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Be

Summary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WES

W Wilson N Moret

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1920

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Haydn, Joseph

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1987

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

Summary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONT

Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Morton, P. J.

Contents: Dad's interlude: welcome (feat. Bishop Paul S. Morton) -- Don't let go (feat. Kim Burrell) -- Repay you (feat. J Moss) -- Gotta have you (feat. Kirk Franklin, Jermaine Dolly and Lena Byrd Miles) -- Over and over (feat. Commissioned) -- Dad's interlude: origin (feat. Bishop Paul S. Morton) -- So in love (feat. Darrel 'MusiqCity' Walls & Zacardi Cortez) -- All in his plan (feat. Le'Andria Johnson...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MORTON

Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROO

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Contents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999

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

Moses

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSES, GRANDMA MOS

Summary: Set in an Edwardian country house starting in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Summary: "Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts of the Rhythm Boys...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KIN

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