Summary: An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who find solace in real ale, classical music, and difficult crosswords. Together with his able sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Happy families) When Sir John Balcombe is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHSummary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: When a young Mathayus witnesses his father's death at the hands of the king, his quest for vengeance transforms him into the most feared warrior of the ancient world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SCOSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THACole, Keyshia
Contents: Intro (Last tango) (2:54) -- Heat of passion (3:59) -- N.L.U. (featuring 2 Chainz) (4:13) -- Next time (won't give my heart away) (3:33) -- Rick James (featuring Juicy J) (4:11) -- New nu (2:56) -- She (3:46) -- Believer (3:36) -- Love letter (featuring Future) (3:34) -- Party ain't a party (featuring Gavyn Rhone) (4:51) -- Remember pt. 2 (4:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES COLSummary: Roy and Jessie are a couple are in a rocky relationship. Following a stay in Beijing they decide to give their relationship one last go and have another adventure together. They decide to travel on the Transsiberian from China to Moscow. The couple discover that the days of the train's glorious luxury has faded and has been replace with cold steel carriages and indifferent fellow passengers. It...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Studios 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYJeremih
Contents: Planez (feat. J. Cole) -- Pass dat -- Impatient (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) -- Oui -- Drank -- Giv no fuks (feat. Migos) -- Feel like Phil -- Royalty (feat. Future & Big Sean) -- I did (feat. Feather) -- Actin' up -- Remember me -- Don't tell 'em (feat. YG) -- Woosah (feat. Juicy J & Twista) -- Worthy (feat. Jhené Aiko)-- Paradise.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JERLil Wayne.
Contents: IANAHB (Album Version (Edited)) (5:38) -- Curtains (Album Version (Edited)) (4:32) -- Days And Days (Album Version (Edited)) (3:13) -- Gunwalk (Album Version (Edited)) (4:31) -- No Worries (Album Version (Edited)) (3:41) -- Back To You (Album Version (Edited)) (5:29) -- Trigger Finger (Album Version (Edited)) (4:32) -- Beat The S*** (Album Version (Edited)) (4:29) -- Rich As F*** (Album Version...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cash Money 2013
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Summary: Dr. Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, from Elizabeth I to the present Queen Elizabeth II, explaining how the royal wardrobe is a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TALContents: Here and now/ Luther Vandross. -- Friends and lovers/ Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson. -- Flame / Cheap Trick. -- I'm not in love Will to Power. -- First time / Surface. -- I only have eyes for you Art Garfunkel. -- Walkin' in the rain with the one I love / Love Unlimited. -- Never can say goodbye / Jackson 5. -- Heaven in your eyes / Loverboy. -- I won't hold you back / Toto. -- Two out of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANSummary: A coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou Province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school in daily gymnastics, he is told he must wear a clean, new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELEContents: Rebirth -- Hungry man (featuring Skrillex & Crystal Caines) -- Strive (featuring Missy Elliot) -- Meet my crazy Uncle (skit) -- Psycho -- Let it bang (featuring ScHoolboy Q) -- New level (featuring Future) -- Yammy gang (featuring A$AP Mob & Tatiana Paulino -- Swipe life (featuring Rick Ross) -- Uzi gang (featuring Lil Uzi Vert & Marty Baller) -- Beautiful people (featuring Chuck D & Mama Ferg)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP A$ASummary: When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as the master is being...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER REDMigos (Musical group)
Contents: Avalanche -- Having our way (feat. Drake) -- Straightenin -- Type shit (feat. Cardi B) -- Malibu (feat. Polo G) -- Birthday -- Modern day -- Vaccine -- Picasso (feat. Future) -- Roadrunner -- What you see (feat. Justin Bieber) -- Jane -- Antisocial (feat. Juice WRLD) -- Why not -- Mahomes -- Handle my business -- Time for me -- Light it up (feat. Pop Smoke) -- Need it (feat. Youngboy Never...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP MIGInternet Money
Contents: Message / (feat. TyFontaine) -- Really Redd / (feat. Trippie Redd, Lil Keef & Young Nudy) -- Lost me / (feat. Lil Mosey, iann dior & Lil Skies) -- Right now / (feat. Cochise & TyFontaine) -- Familiar / (feat. TheHxliday) -- JLO / (feat. Lil Tecca) -- Thrusting / (feat. Swae Lee & Future) -- Speak / (feat. The Kid Laroi) -- Blast off / (feat. Juice WRLD & Trippie Redd) -- Take it slow / (feat....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RAP INTSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHSummary: People from 192 countries submitted more than 80,000 videos to YouTube of personal events that happened in their lives on July 24th, 2010. Over 4,500 hours of contributed footage was sifted through to create this motion picture event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2011