Summary: GoodFellas: Follows a mid-level gangster over three decades from his Brooklyn neighborhood to his arrest by the FBI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MARSummary: Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOASummary: Howard Hughes tells his story for the first time. Through his own words, taken from his actual memos, conversations and interviews, the man who broke aviation records, survived three plane crashes, built RKO studios, comes to life in this engrossing film
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOWSummary: Explore the public and private life of one of the 20th Century's most important Americans. The legacy of Howard Hughes is both inspirational and tragic. Gain insight into the motivations of this complex man through a rare interviews and footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment 2004
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Beatty, Warren
Summary: When an aspiring actress is brought to Hollywood on a contract under Howard Hughes, she falls in love with her driver despite their employer's restrictions against relationships between his staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUL PG-13Summary: Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AVICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Aviator 2005Summary: Follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic. The film was a massive hit, and the eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AVICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVI RATED PG-13Hack, Richard.
Summary: Based on newly uncovered personal letters, sealed court testimony, recently declassified FBI files, and never-before-revealed autopsy findings, this book by an investigative journalist and Hollywood insider is the definitive biography of Howard Hughes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HACHigham, Charles
Summary: Provides a portrait of the private life of billionaire Howard Hughes, from his affairs with Hollywood stars to his possible involvement with Nixon and Watergate to his shocking death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HIGLongworth, Karina
Summary: In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes—the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LONSummary: 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
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005