Summary: Features the remarkable story of the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, held in March 2010 in Glasgow. Thousands of dancers, their families, and teachers from around the globe descend upon Glasgow for one drama-filled week. Clad in wigs, makeup, fake tan, diamonds, and dresses costing thousands of pounds, they compete for the coveted world titles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIG

Summary: At 14, Toronto school friends Steve 'Lips' Ludlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the 'demigods of Canadian metal,' releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982's Metal on Metal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VH1 Films 2009

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ANV
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ANV

Summary: "Tracing the steps of grunge from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements to its global rise to the multimillion dollar pop culture phenomenon, Hype! incorporates hilarious interviews with rare concert footage of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and The Melvins"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2004

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HYP

Summary: In sharing their stories, uses every tool available, from cutting-edge DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing to reveal long-buried secrets. Spanning the globe, the series compiles family trees that trace throughout the United States and Canada; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Germany, Poland, Ireland, Russia, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: These legendary documentaries have only been released on VHS until now. Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981. Parts II and III were no less extraordinary and unprecedented. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as historically significant works of art....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD MUSIC DEC

Summary: "The second album by Black Sabbath, released in 1970, has long attained classic status. "Paranoid" not only changed the face of rock music forever, but also defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history ... This program tells the story behind the writing, recording, and success of this groundbreaking album. Using exclusive interviews, musical...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 2010

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLA

Giroux, Henry A.

Contents: Introduction : Disney's troubled utopia -- Disney and the politics of public culture -- Learning with Disney : from Baby Einstein to High school musical -- Children's culture and Disney's animated films -- Disney, militarization, and the national-security state after 9/11 -- Globalizing the Disney empire -- Conclusion : turning the world into a Disney store.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.8 GIR

Hillenbrand, Laura.

Summary: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Then, on the ocean surface, the face of a young lieutenant appeared as he struggled to pull himself aboard a life raft. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War as told by the author of "Seabiscuit."

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ZAMPERINI, LOUIS HILLENBRAND

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Zamperini 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B ZAMPERINI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 940.54 HIL

Summary: "This collective of progressive bands started [the RIO] movement that remains one of the reference points that many listeners, musicians, and distributors use to describe a cooperative approach of making and distributing non-mainstream music"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2012

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROM

Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OUR

Summary: Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory LLC 2006

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOM

Summary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009

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

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOO

Murphy, Frank D.

Summary: ""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FRANK D. MUR

Leahy (Musical group)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Narada World 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Leahy

Summary: A look into the Source Family cult, its spiritual leader, Father Yod, and 1970s California, told through home movies and photographs from Source Family archivist Isis Aquarian and accompanied by original Source Family music.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City, Inc. 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOU

Summary: Documents the experiences of the band as they return to Paris for a concert several months after a terrorist attack during a previous performance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2017

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC EAG

Roop, Connie.

Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROO

Summary: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rich-Heape Films 2006

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Summary: Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIL

Summary: "Traces the history of fantasy art in North America and the UK. Through interviews, guided tutorials, and tips, shows readers how to design, draw, and paint fantasy art using traditional and digital tools"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Chapel Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.415 MAS

Summary: Presents three "body-mind-spirit" workouts designed for maximum benefit in the least amount of time: a morning routine for increased energy (including extended version); an evening routine for relaxation (including extended version); basic routine for health and vitality. Music with or without instruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Exercise to Heal 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7148 SEV

Summary: "Lester was an enthusiast; he jumped headfirst into the scene and never looked back. This piece stands as a passionate prose poem about our place in regard to Nature, the Universe and Reality. Yes, that's what this is, not just a record review. Way ahead of his time, Lester describes a Matrix-like world, and he begins to peel back the covers, exposing an unfriendly Mother Nature and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 2011

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TAL