Summary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FOXSummary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHOSummary: Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISPoitier, Sidney
Summary: An ex-Union Army sergeant leads a group of black freed slaves to their homesteads in the West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUCContents: Disc 1- Side A. Powder keg (starring Rod Taylor & Dennis Cole, 1971, 93 min.) -- Boot Hill (starring Terence Hill & Bud Spencer, 1969, 97 min.) -- To the last man (starring Randolph Scott, 1941, 70 min.) -- Song of Arizona (starring Roy Rogers, 1946, 68 min.) -- Winds of the wasteland (starring John Wayne & Lane Chandler, 1936, 55 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TGG Direct 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TWESummary: It's Christmastime as young Robbie Eunson pulls his little sister on a sled through the snow to a snug house in the woods. Robbie is fulfilling the promise he made to their dying mother- that he would find a home for each of the six orphaned children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALLSummary: A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hombre 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOMSummary: Carousel: Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker. He wants a better life for his family, but he goes about it the wrong way and is killed during a robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARSummary: Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Love 2005Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Musical about Julie Jordan who falls in love with Billy Bigelow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Carousel 1999Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARSummary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMSummary: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHOTrask, Stephen
Contents: America the Beautiful (0:59) -- Tear Me Down (3:57) -- The Origin of Love (5:35) -- Deutschlandlied (0:10) -- Sugar Daddy (4:21) -- When Love Explodes (Love Theme from "Hurt Locker: The Musical") (1:44) -- Angry Inch (3:04) -- Wig In A Box (5:07) -- Wicked Little Town (3:42) -- The Long Grift (2:55) -- Hedwig's Lament (1:52) -- Exquisite Corpse (2:47) -- Wicked Little Town (Reprise) (3:30) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Records 2014
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Summary: Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAB1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RAB
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RABSummary: Based on the long-running New York smash hit, this film is a high-powered rock musical that tells the hilarious but emotional tale of a German glam-rock diva on a journey to find love and stardom in her new home, a trailer park in Kansas!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Trask, Stephen.
Contents: Tear Me Down (3:53) -- Origin of Love (6:03) -- Angry Inch (2:57) -- Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis Version) (3:51) -- Wig In A Box (5:17) -- The Long Grift (2:57) -- Hedwig's Lament (1:53) -- Exquisite Corpse (2:55) -- Midnight Radio (5:39) -- Nailed (3:26) -- Sugar Daddy (3:57) -- Freaks (with Girls Against Boys) (3:51) -- In Your Arms Tonight (4:04) -- Wicked Little Town (Hedwig Version)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Atlantic 2001
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Trask, Stephen.
Contents: Tear me down -- The origin of love -- Angry Inch -- Wicked little town (Tommy Gnosis version) -- Wig in a box -- The long grift -- Hedwig's lament -- Exquisite corpse -- Midnight radio -- Nailed -- Sugar daddy -- Freaks -- In your arms tonight -- Wicked little town (Hedwig version).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hybrid Recordings 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HEDSummary: A high-energy rock musical. This is the story of Hedwig, an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America after a botched sex change operation, determined to find fame, fortune, and his "other half."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HEDSummary: Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life. That is until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, and ultimately presumed to be dead, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of the administration's cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2018