Summary: 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 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

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: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13

Summary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOH

Summary: Once upon a time, there lived in Denmark a young shoemaker named Hans Christian Andersen whose magical tales delighted boys and girls throughout the land. Hans one day journeys beyond the borders of his small village, across the sea and into the dazzling city of Copenhagen. There he encounters marvels and wonders beyond his wildest dreams, and finds the inspiration for some of his most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSICALS HAN

Summary: A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship before Ponyo's father forces her to return to the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Po

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRA RATED R

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brave 2000

Summary: For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. And while he never reached his dream of being president, and in fact is most remembered for his 1968 loss to Richard Nixon, Humphrey left behind a legacy few presidents can match. In November of 1977, for the first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010

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

Summary: Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY LIT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Li

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Movie Little 2013

Summary: The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Reds 2006

Summary: The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DAN

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

Summary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016

Summary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROO

Summary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEC

Summary: In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WIL

Summary: The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUI

Murray, Bill

Summary: With Great Britain facing war with Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invites the King and Queen of England to his home in upstate New York, while engaging in an affair with a distant cousin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HYD

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HYD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HYD RATED R

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KAT

Summary: The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRI

Summary: A former Union soldier brokers peace with the Apaches in 1870 Arizona, but still faces opposition from the U.S. military and other tribes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BRO

Summary: The life of Dora Carrington, the Victorian Era painter whose passionate life created one of England's greatest scandals. Unable to possess the one man she loves, Lytton Strachey, Carrington embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAR

Bell, Kristen

Summary: A princess sets out on a journey to find another missing princess, and save the kingdom from eternal winter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2014

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4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO RATED PG

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Fr

Summary: A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DIN