Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BUT

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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUT

Summary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHO

Summary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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

Summary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013

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

Summary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFR

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFR

Summary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIS

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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THU

Summary: Baron Frankenstein is blackmailed by Dr. Praetorious into reviving his monster and building a mate for it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 1999

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BRI

Summary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOM

Summary: Aura is a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIN

Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 VIK
Call number: DVD 948.022 VIK

Summary: In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes, is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY THE

Summary: When the bass guitarist of his band suddenly quits, Milan finds a replacement, and a romantic spark, in a free-spirited Kim. Just as rehearsals for recording his dream album start picking up steam, Milan's Serbian girlfriend Lela arrives with very different plans for their future. Lela wants them to go home to Serbia, but Milan is determined to stay in America at any cost.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015

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

Summary: "An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns home and enlists his father, a recovering alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. Tommy's estranged brother Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to provide for his family as a public school teacher, also enters the competition. Set on a collision...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WAR

Summary: A security expert is sent to investigate the disappearance of a research team drilling deeper into the Sahara desert's surface than anyone has attempted before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gone to Hell Ltd. 2013

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

Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001

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

Summary: 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 FAN

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Fantastic 2010

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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FAN

Summary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZEL

Summary: A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Harry

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

Summary: A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIM

Summary: A band of hardy pioneers, led by guide Breck Coleman, makes its perilous way along the Oregon Trail, braving bison, treacherous river crossings, blizzards and Indian attacks. Filmed in two versions simultaneously, each scene had to be shot twice, once for the widescreen process Grandeur in 70mm, and again for the standard 35mm version.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN BIG