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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Sandweiss, Martha A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Carter Museum 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 SANSummary: A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONESummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A charismatic yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOLSummary: The Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR QUICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUISummary: Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Guardians 2014Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GUACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUA RATED PG-13Contents: CD1. Mississippi John Hurt -- Frankie (3:18) -- Stack O'Lee (2:55) -- Candy man blues (2:42) ; Blind Lemon Jefferson : Jack O'Diamonds (2:43) -- Hangman's blues (3:01) -- Low down mojo blues (2:47) ; Leadbelly : Midnight special (3:03) -- Good morning blues (2:51) -- Easy rider (3:10) ; Woody Guthrie : House of the rising sun (Traditional ; 2:31) -- Mean talking blues (3:26) -- Little black...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cedar 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BLUDamon
Contents: Disc 1: Song of a gypsy -- Poor poor genie -- Don't you feel me -- Did you ever -- Funky funky blues -- Do you -- The night -- Feel your love -- Birds fly so high -- The road of life -- Oh what a good boy I am -- Song of a gypsy (45 version) -- Song of a gypsy (demo version) -- Poor poor genie (demo version).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DAMSummary: Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blood 2007Summary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASSummary: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen for a very specific purpose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNDemen
Contents: Niorum -- Morgon -- Korridorer -- Illdrop -- Mea -- Ambur -- Flor
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEMSummary: In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAT PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Battle 2017Summary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga that completely reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul, even as they grapple with their own monstrous temptations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENSummary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOTSummary: Vanessa Ives accepting her demons could exact a terrible cost and plunge the world into darkness, while Ethan Chandler, Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Sir Malcolm, the Creature, and Lily must each face their own monstrous selves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENSummary: Vanessa Ives and Ethan Chandler are forming a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm, Dr. Frankenstein, and Sembene, unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray, the Creature and Brona are all waging battles of their own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount / Showtime 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENSummary: The next doctor: Christmas 1851, and Cybermen stalk Victorian London. The Doctor discovers a spate of mysterious deaths, and he's surprised to meet another Doctor. The two Doctors will need to be enough to stop the rise of the CyberKing. Planet of the dead: When a London bus takes a detour to an alien world, the Doctor must join forces with the extraordinary Lady Christina. But the mysterious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part 1 includes an introduction to the entire series and to the enduring problems of philosophy. The critical tensions in Western thought are identified and the context is set for the great conversation that follows. This first part of the series is foundational, designed to teach basic facts about the philosophers and traditions covered. Classical Origins examines the origins of philosophy in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham that follows the notorious gang, who got their name from sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, a man dead set on moving up in the world, no matter the cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015