Summary: In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American idol-style series, Afghan star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFGKashmere Stage Band
Contents: disc 1. Boss City-- Burning spear-- Take five -- Super bad -- Keep doing it -- Thunder soul -- Do you dig it, man? -- Headwiggle -- Do your thing ; Scorpio ; Thank you (previously unissued extended versions) -- Al's tune -- All praises -- Shaft -- Kashmere -- $$ kash register $$ -- Zero point : parts 1 & 2 (45 version, previously unreleased) -- Getting it out of my system --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KASSummary: Did you know the moon is a satellite? In fact, the moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. In beautiful, spacious visuals, children will learn about lunar phases, eclipses, lunar exploration, and the moon's effect on the Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MOOTower of Power (Musical group)
Contents: CD 1. Stroke '75 (2:40) -- Ain't nothing stopping us now (2:36) -- You ought to be having fun (3:21) -- Soul with a capital S (6:07) -- Stop (4:34) -- You're so wonderful, so marvelous (3:06) -- On the serious side (4:17) -- Just when we start makin' it (7:24) -- Soul vaccination (5:04) -- What is hip?/Soul power (9:25) -- Do you like that? (3:36) -- Drop it in the slot (3:12) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TOWSummary: This watershed release represents the life's work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942. Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK VOIKenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Contents: CD. Woman like you (4:21) -- Long time running (4:06) -- I want you (7:41) -- Diamonds & gold (6:27) -- Talk to me baby (5:36) -- Heat of the sun (10:50) -- Down for love (4:29) -- Shame, shame, shame (8:42) -- Turn to stone (6:15) -- Blue on black (4:59) -- I'm a king bee (4:24) -- Voodoo child (slight return) (11:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SHEContents: CD 1. Watch the Sunrise (featuring Pat Sansone) -- September Gurls (featuring Mike Mills) -- In the Street (featuring Brett Harris and Mike Mills) -- Back of a Car (featuring Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow) -- Thirteen (featuring Skylar Gudasz) -- Give Me Another Chance (featuring Dan Wilson) -- When My Baby's Beside Me (featuring Jeff Tweedy) -- I'm in Love with a Girl (featuring Pat Sansone)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIGSummary: "Take a detailed look at the fascinating history and culture of Washington DC with an insider's tour sponsored by Smithsonian."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.53 GRECall number: DVD 917.53 GRE
Summary: The royal tour is a groundbreaking special, produced and hosted by Peter Greenberg, that will showcase Mexico in a way no visitor has ever seen the country before -- through the eyes of its leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 MexSummary: "Join a best-selling travel writer and globe-trotting journalist to discover 18 million acres of adventure in America's state parks."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 YOGCall number: DVD 917 YOG
Summary: A timely documentary that raises urgent questions about how we travel and the unintended cultural and environmental consequences of tourism around the globe. Gringo Trails follows well-worn travelers' routes through Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan and reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures, such as the host countries' need for financial security and the tourists who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC INLSummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVSummary: Princess Shaw placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. This is the extraordinary true story of an aspiring musician down on her luck, who inspired internationally famous YouTube artist Kutiman to create a magical collaboration that would bring her music to a whole new audience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRESummary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAWSummary: A Spanish DVD introducing another 180 words and phrases in different themes. The teacher interacts with real children in beautifully filmed high-definition video. Experience a wide range of emotions with Little Pim from happiness and love to sad faces, mad faces, and everything in-between.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pim Corp. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPANISH LITCasting Crowns
Contents: CD. Until the whole world hears -- If we've ever needed you -- Glorious day (Living he loved me) -- Mercy -- Holy One -- To know you -- Blessed Redeemer -- At your feet --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Street/Reunion 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS CASHendrix, Jimi
Summary: "Jimi's two legendary July 1970 Maui performances. Includes the documentary "Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui"; Blu-ray includes all existing footage from both performances"--Container packaging.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HENPet Shop Boys
Contents: CD1. The singles 1985-1991. West End girls -- Love comes quickly -- Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) -- Suburbia -- It's a sin -- What have I done to deserve this? / with Dusty Springfield -- Rent -- Always on my mind -- Heart -- Domino dancing -- Left to my own devices -- It's alright -- So hard -- Being boring -- Where the streets have no name/I can't take my eyes off you -- Jealously...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PETVarious
Contents: CD. Banani batawina Bena Ngoma (extended) (Bena Ngoma) -- Mado mado ; Muriagombe ; A tata shandiabana wiya (BBK version) (BBK) -- Kiyongo (extended) (Bana Lupemba) -- Beggars' banquet (extended) (Bana Simba) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crammed Discs 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KARDengue Fever
Summary: Documentary follows the band on a trip to Cambodia as they discover the legacy of their musical and cultural influences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: M80 Music 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DENLed Zeppelin
Contents: Good times bad times -- Ramble on -- Black dog -- In my time of dying -- For your life -- Trampled under foot -- Nobody's fault but mine -- No quarter -- Since I've been loving you -- Dazed and confused -- Stairway to heaven -- The song remains the same -- Misty mountain hop -- Kashmir -- Whole lotta love -- Rock and roll.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LEDSummary: "Lester was an enthusiast; he jumped headfirst into the scene and never looked back. This piece stands as a passionate prose poem about our place in regard to Nature, the Universe and Reality. Yes, that's what this is, not just a record review. Way ahead of his time, Lester describes a Matrix-like world, and he begins to peel back the covers, exposing an unfriendly Mother Nature and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 2011