Lawrence, T. E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions 1927

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.415 LAW

Summary: A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QUE

Summary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAW

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAW

Summary: The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lawrence

Summary: T.E. Lawrence helped unify the Arab tribes against the Turks during World War I, but he also set in motion a chain of events that even he would be powerless to stop, events that would shape Arab-Western relations for generations to come.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2003

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

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUS

T Lawrence Seibert E Newton

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Southern California 1909

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: 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 PIO
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