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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWISummary: Doug is the king, but his wife Carrie really rules the roost. Doug is the ultimate guy's guy from Queens, New York. A blue-collar husband who loves his wife so much he is willing to sacrifice his rec room so her father, Arthur, and sister can move in, a decision he's been regretting ever since. Doug's free time is split between quality time with his wife and play time with his buddies. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KINSummary: This stylish western skillfully interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PlainsmanSummary: Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMSummary: Transylvania, 1897: terror awaits. The blood-drinking count has set his sights and teeth on London. A spine-tingling reimagining of the classic, from the creators of Sherlock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DRASummary: The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynets operations, where they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Terminator 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TERSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the final season of this popular series, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney reprises her role as Cathy Jamison, who comes to a realization about her battle with skin cancer. Deciding to quit chemotherapy, Cathy finds peace and resolution with her husband, son and even her estranged father. With four one-hour episodes, Cathy's journey is filled with laughter, tears and poignancy- a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGSummary: Arresting killers is Manhattan detective LaMarca's job. This time is different, the fugitive suspect LaMarca is tracking ends up being his own son. LaMarca must bring the accused to justice. But as a father, he must put his job on the line to find a way to save his own son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: Based on a the 1943 documentary about the famous plane of World War II, the Flying Fortress. Story of the crew of the Memphis Belle one of the B-17s flying and their last mission before they can go home to a hero's welcome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEMSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Stratton 2006Summary: Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He has three daughters and is a widower. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan's mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan's, Ruthie Draper and that she has set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DanSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOBSummary: "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LASSummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Summary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018