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Feature films Jesus Christ Crucifixion Drama Jesus Christ Drama Jesus Christ Nativity Drama Jesus Christ Resurrection Drama Jesus Christ Teachings Drama Jews History To 70 A.D Drama Man-woman relationships United States Drama United States Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSHutton, Ronald
Summary: "In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries. Looking closely at four main figures--Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202 HUTSummary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEASummary: 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
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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ORDContents: Intro -- Please Mr. Postman (the Marvelettes) -- (Love is like a) Heat wave (Martha & the Vandellas) -- My guy (Mary Wells) -- My girl (the Temptations) -- Where did our love go ; Stop! In the name of love (the Supremes) -- Shotgun (Jr. Walker & the All Stars) -- I can't help myself (Sugar pie, honey bunch) (Four Tops) -- Uptight (Everything's alright) (Stevie Wonder) -- Ain't too proud to beg...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown/UTV Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MOTSummary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FIVSummary: Based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield, this follows the fortunes of Paul Craddock, a former soldier who purchases a run-down Devon estate. Set between the Boer War and the outbreak of World War I, the miniseries depicts the end of an era, as England moves into the modern age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HORSummary: The life of Dora Carrington, the Victorian Era painter whose passionate life created one of England's greatest scandals. Unable to possess the one man she loves, Lytton Strachey, Carrington embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARFranklin, Aretha.
Contents: Jumpin Jack flash (feat. Keith Richards) -- Sisters are doin' it for themselves (feat. Eurythmics) -- I knew you were waiting (for me) (feat. George Michael) -- What now my love (feat. Frank Sinatra) -- Put you up on game (feat. Fantasia) -- What y'all came to do (feat. John Legend) -- Never gonna break my faith (feat. Mary J. Blige and Harlem Boys Choir) -- Through the storm (feat. Elton John)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRAVarious Artists.
Contents: This land is your land / Woody Cuthrie -- Do re mi / Cisco Houston -- So long, it's been good to know yuh / The Weavers -- Pastures of plenty / Odetta -- Roll on Columbia / Country Joe McDonald -- Hard, ain't it hard / Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston -- Deportee (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) / Cisco Houston; and others.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GREContents: I Smile (5:11) -- Every Praise (4:50) -- I Can Only Imagine (6:04) -- I Believe (5:38) -- Nobody Greater (6:11) -- I Want To Say Thank You (4:32) -- I Need Your Glory (5:01) -- In The Middle (3:48) -- Still Able (5:20) -- I Won't Go Back (6:10) -- The Gift (5:13) -- The Best In Me (4:20) -- Let The Church Say Amen (7:51) -- Awesome (5:50) -- I Feel Good (4:16) -- 1 On 1 (5:22) -- It's Not Over...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: eOne Music 2015
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Summary: Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WSummary: A story about a young, sensitive English boy whose rocking horse empowers him to predict winning racehorses, at the eventual cost of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROCSummary: The Addams family: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADDSummary: A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIGSummary: "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 MIDContents: O Come (5:10) -- His Name Is Jesus (4:30) -- Now Behold The Lamb (6:59) -- O Little Town Of Bethlehem (4:09) -- O Holy Night (5:19) -- Do You Hear What I Hear? (5:15) -- This Christmas (3:32) -- No Christmas Without You (4:02) -- In The Presence Of A King (4:53) -- Agnus Dei (3:44) -- For Unto Us (A Child Is Born) (4:29) -- Glory To The Lamb (5:44) -- Hallelujah Chorus (4:43) -- The First Noel...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: WOW Gospel Christmas (WWG) 2013
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Summary: Will Penny, an aging, out of work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman and her son, on her way to join her husband, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known as he falls in love with her, but the gang is on its way to finish him off.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN WILSummary: Joe is a boxer who is headed for a championship fight when he is killed in a plane crash. Unfortunately for Joe, he was not supposed to die in the crash, but was instead brought up to heaven too soon by an overeager angel. It is now up to Mr. Jordan, the angel's boss, to find Joe a new body and give him another chance to fight for the title. Joe meets an idealistic young woman to whom he is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERESummary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020