Summary: From the streets and taverns of colonial America, in vaudeville, on television and under the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. This documentary is the first to chronicle the fascinating evolution of this unique art form. Examines the lives and recounts the significant contributions of men and women who, throughout the years,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mazzarella Media 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOSummary: Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDSummary: Experience the passion, the drama and every heart stopping moment. Television's favorite doctors now find themselves simmering in a world of sexual politics. Bailey struggles with what it means to be a woman in charge of the hospital, and her own husband, while Maggie faces the challenges of dating a younger man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the annual conference where the world's brightest thinkers gather to discuss a better future; includes talks given by former Vice President Al Gore, Dr. Larry Brilliant, and Nicholas Negroponte.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FUTSummary: Comprising elements of travelogue, history lesson, biography, critical analysis, psychological study, and fan testimonial, this documentary explores the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald, via a long walk through coastal East Anglia, retracing the steps he took in his most famous book, The rings Of Saturn. Includes interviews with writers, artists, and filmmakers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild/Spark 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PATSummary: Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller. Julien is a middle-age salesman embroiled in a steamy love affair with a married woman who, after a round of kinky sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly Julien is caught up in a police investigation, but just what exactly happened?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUSummary: International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in a definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved, and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAIJefferies, LaShawn
Summary: Musical adventures of the Backyardigans as they have a surprise birthday party and a tea party, travel the high seas to meet a mermaid, and help Sherman find his way through the jungle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BACJefferies, LaShawn
Summary: Follows preschool friends as they transform their back yards into magical fantasy lands for musical adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BACJefferies, LaShawn
Summary: Follows preschool friends as they transform their backyards into magical fantasy lands for musical adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2008
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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: A chambermaid with Paris flair, gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIASummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, and Tasha go on four winter-themed adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BACJefferies, LaShawn
Summary: Follows the preschool friends, the Backyardigans, as they transform their back yards into magical fantasy lands for musical adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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Summary: Follows the musical adventures of preschool friends, the Backyardigans, as they become knights and protectors of an egg that leads them through the land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2008
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Summary: Pablo and Tyrone set out to discover a mermaid; Tasha insists on going to dangerous places to catch a fish; Tasha, Uniqua and Austin decide to make up news in order to get on the air; Professor Pablo chases after the Gilded Golden Butterfly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BACSolti, Georg Sir
Summary: Performance of the opera about the complex medieval Doge of Genoa whose life was ruled by love of family and devotion to country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SIMSummary: 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
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Gere, Richard
Summary: A young boy who is ill is taken on a magical adventure where he meets New York Yankee legends, both past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HENSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOGere, Richard
Summary: In the early 20th century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007