Summary: The attack on Pearl Harbor on the seventh of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered WW Two. More than 110,000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. With the arrival of the Cold War, the enemy image had to change quickly, and Hollywood obliged. Clara and Julia Kuperberg found the right interview partners in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV YELSummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010. The influence the magazine has had on our culture through turbulent times, morphing into Second City, Saturday Night Live, and the movies, and the stars and sorrows it has produced.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DRUSummary: A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks....
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEOSummary: From the initial sparks of revolution in Boston to the climactic Siege of Yorktown and beyond, hear the story of the war within the Revolutionary War through the eyes of some of the most significant African American figures of our country's foundation, including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley, and James Armistead Lafayette. Executive produced and narrated by NBA legend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: The honorable citizen Nils plows snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, but when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: Life in the extreme. In a fragile world of beauty and hostility, nature finds a way to survive and thrive. Sir David Attenborough explores a planet on the brink of major change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC FROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FROSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: A three-part documentary event. Abraham Lincoln is a definitive biography of the 16th president, the man who led the country during its greatest crisis. Featuring over seven hours of compelling live-action scripted scenes, interviews with esteemed historians and public figures including President Barack Obama as well as archival materials, and segments acknowledging the invaluable influence of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABRSummary: This epic miniseries uncovers the great forces that helped shape the United States, chronicling the migratory patterns of ethnic groups that populated the country through the telling of historical events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATSummary: This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series "Planet Earth" examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, etc.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Pl IICopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PLASummary: For the first time, cameras were allowed inside Windsor Castle to chronicle a year in the life of the world's oldest working castle. Located west of London, Windsor is the Queen's favorite home and the place from which the Royal Family takes its name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WINSummary: Recently divorced fireman Tommy Gavin is coping with the fear of his job and the unease he feels watching his ex-wife as she starts to date other men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recruited to spy for Russia in 1934. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Across almost 20 years of spying and treachery, the four are bound by their beliefs, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAMSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUSummary: Hard-nosed and hard-headed NYFD firefighter Tommy Gavin returns along with the rest of the 62 Truck crew. In this season, Tommy is trying to hold his life and team together while dealing with the devastating loss of his son; Franco studies for the lieutenant's exam while "Probie" contemplates the end of his probationary period and now both ponder leaving the house; Lou and Jerry each grapple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BITSummary: After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016