Summary: In his final film as director, Gordon Parks turned the camera upon himself and created a deeply personal and remarkably poetic self-portrait. Moments Without Proper Names blends Parks's striking photographs with newly-shot footage of the artist, his own musical compositions, and personal reminiscences performed by a trio of esteemed actors: Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOMDeep Blue Organ Trio
Contents: Tell me something good (6:56) -- If you really love me (5:57) -- Jesus children of America (5:56) -- My cheri amour (8:44) -- Golden lady (7:18) -- You haven't done nothin' (7:29) -- It ain't no use (6:47) -- As (5:25) -- You've got it bad girl (7:40)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Origin Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DEESummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Billy Batson--aka Shazam!--and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Explore the edges of space and time with Morgan Freeman as your guide in Through The Wormhole. Ten thought-provoking episodes comprise Season Three. Viewers will hold in their hands answers to some of the world's greatest mysteries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRSummary: "Meet the Wyler family. One shopaholic, one drifter, a teenage goth confused about who he is, and the oldest brother who raised them all. Add in the battle over their parents' will and you've got Bringing Up Bobby.".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Provident-Integrity Distribution 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in tumultuous 1960s Singapore, Sam Callaghan an Australian expat, agrees to help his neighbor Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is mysteriously killed while working a case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SERGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: Le banjo : fantasie grotesque, op. 15 (3:12) -- Bamboula : danse de nègres, op. 2 (9:20) -- Le bananier : chanson nègre, op. 5 (2:44) -- La savane : ballade créole, op. 3 (7:01) -- Tremolo : grande étude de concert, op. 58 (3:54) -- La jota aragonesa : caprice espagnol, op. 14 (2:57) -- Manchega : étude de concert, op. 38 (3:03) -- Souvenirs d'Andalousie : caprice de concert sur la caña, op. 22...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTTSSummary: Unmarried at 31, Zaza has become an embarassment to his family. With one potential bride after another trotted out in front of him, he somehow manages to never tie the knot. Curious, his family investigates and discovers his secret relationship to a divorcGee. Upset, the entire family decide to intervene.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LATSummary: A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSSummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: The banjo : fantasie grotesque : opus 15 (3:22) -- La scintilla = The spark : mazurka, opus 20 (2:56) -- Ojos criollos = Les yeux creoles, or, Danse cubaine : opus 37 (2:15) -- Marche funèbre : opus 64 (posthumous) (5:28) -- Bamboula : danse des nègres : opus 2 (7:12) -- Souvenir de Porto Rico : marche des Gibaros : opus 31 (5:10) -- The dying poet = Le poète mourant : méditation (5:00) -- Le...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTSummary: When a young married couple buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INTContents: Haunted mansion / directed by Rob Minkoff -- The Country Bears / directed by Peter Hastings -- Tower of terror / directed by D.J. MacHale -- Mr. Toad's wild ride / directed by Terry Jones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment 2012
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DISSummary: In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDSummary: "A young stockbroker [is] hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough. His name was Jordan Belfort"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of criminals attempt to rob a bank in order to save a retirement home from being demolished by property developers. During the heist, the gang takes hostages in order to escape from the police, but upon leaving the bank they find that the cops have been killed by a horde of blood-thirsty zombies--which are multiplying at a rapid pace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COCSummary: For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FALHaden, Charlie.
Contents: Disc 1. Handwoven -- Dewey's tune -- Chairman Mao -- Next to the quiet stream -- Augmented -- Old and new dreams.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: C.A.M. 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HADContents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: For one 14-year-old boy, life can be a challenge sometimes. With all of the usual crises that accompany being an adolescent, foster kid Billy has some additional obstacles in life. A chance encounter with a mystical wizard completely changes everything. And it's not long before this boy discovers that one phrase grants him the ability to make a transformation into a superhero. In fact, it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019