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African Americans Drama Aviadores Estados Unidos Teatro Estados Unidos. Air Force Afronorteamericanos Teatro Jazz United States United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th. Wagon trains West (U.S.) Drama West United States World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 England DramaContents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALLSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Gray, Gary (Gary R.)
Summary: "Early morning wakeups and homemade pancakes, Raucous bus rides and schoolyard games, Family games and bedtime rituals... These are the small moments that shape a child's day. I'm From is an invitation into the vivid world of one small boy, a poetic account of all the people and places and things that shape who he is and define where he is from"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRContents: Goin' down to Memphis (John Martyn) -- Tale in hard time (Fairport Convention) -- Giants (Quintessence) -- On my way (Free) -- Free ride (Nick Drake) -- Roll over Vaughn Williams (Richard Thompson) -- Fear is a man's best friend (John Cale) -- Hiroshima mon amour (Ultravox) -- Handsworth revolution (Steel Pulse) -- Instant hit (The Slits) -- Time come (Linton Kwesi Johnson) -- Guilt (Marianne...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJContents: Born this way (Lady Gaga) -- Tonight (I'm lovin' you) (Enrique Iglesias, featuring Ludacris and DJ Frank E) -- S&M (Rihanna) -- Hold it against me (Britney Spears) -- Blow (Ke$ha) -- Grenade (Bruno Mars) -- E.T. (Katy Perry, featuring Kanye West) -- F**kin' perfect (P!nk) -- Coming home (Diddy, Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey) -- Look at me now (Chris Brown, featuring Lil Wayne & Busta...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: 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: Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, this film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. A heartrending story about the universal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAVMoore, Brew.
Contents: Them there eyes / Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Tauber (4:55) -- Them old blues / John Marabuto (4:05) -- Tea for two / Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar (5:00) -- Rose / John Marabuto (4:40) -- I can't believe that you're in love with me / Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill (4:19) -- Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread) / Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom (4:22) -- Rotation / Dickie Mills (4:23)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MOOSummary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they'll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town prepares for its annual Christmas Carnival, new secrets are revealed and old relationships are tested while Madea dishes her own brand of Christmas Spirit to all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADGetz, Stan
Contents: Five brothers (3.09) -- Five brothers (alternate take) (3.33) -- Battle of the saxes (3.50) -- Four and one moore (3.45) -- Four and one moore (alternate take) (3.31) -- Battleground (3.20) -- Battleground (alternate take (3.13) -- The Red door (4.30) -- Zootcase (4.15) -- Tangerine (4.20) -- Morning sun (5.36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GETSummary: "Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes!) are all assembled here to amaze and delight you in a wildly unique anthology celebrating love between men, from an astounding array of comics creators who know exactly how it feels. Featuring stories and art from SINA GRACE, NED BARNETT, ANTHONY OLIVEIRA, CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE, NICK ROBLES,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOUSummary: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRContents: Circle of Life ((From "The Lion King") [Mat Zo Remix]) (5:02) -- Derezzed ((From "TRON: Legacy") [Avicii "So Amazing Mix"] [Feat.Negin]) (5:04) -- Let It Go ((From "Frozen") [Armin van Buuren Remix]) (6:19) -- Roar ((From "Monsters University") [Yogi Remix]) (4:20) -- Partysaurus Overflow ((Inspired by "Partysaurus Rex")) (5:35) -- UNKLE Reconstruction ((Inspired by "The Incredibles")) (6:03)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2014
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Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TuskegeeSummary: She wore a yellow ribbon : Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. 3 Godfathers: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Based on a true story, a retired soldier returns to his hometown to make a new life for himself, but finds that the town has changed for the worse. The town mill has closed and criminal elements have moved in. He becomes the sheriff and vows to clean up the town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Scooby-Doo and the Gang head to Hawaii for a big surfing contest that becomes disrupted by the grumblings of a nearby volcano and the disappearance of a surfing hottie. Scooby-Doo and the Gang romp around the jungle, snorkel, paraglide and surf their buns off as they battle the mysterious appearance of the "Wiki-Tiki" and try to solve a mystery before the volcano erupts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005