Summary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUSummary: A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TSO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TSO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TSOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSO RATED RSummary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DANSummary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLANational Geographic Kids (Firm)
Summary: "Kids are naturally curious. They want to know all about everything around them, near and far. And the completely updated Beginner's World Atlas is the perfect tool to introduce them to the people, places, and animals of the world. We have combined our world-famous mapmaking skills and color photography with input from specialists in geography education to create an atlas designed for kids ages...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI RIDSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOASummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: One of the greatest TV dramas of all time continues with 13 gripping fourth season episodes of the critically acclaimed series. Small-town life in Dillon has changed irrevocably with the dramatic split of the school district. Coach Taylor finds himself fighting for the respect of the East Dillon Lions, while his wife Tami faces her own battles as Principal of the Dillon High Panthers. Across...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FRISummary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014Summary: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: Includes in-depth interviews of U.S. President Richard Nixon by Sir David Frost in May, 1977 regarding the infamous Watergate scandal. Features footage from 2007 of Frost discussing the impact this interview had on history, his reactions, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Liberation Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 FROSummary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brooklyn 2016Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: Still considered iconic for their live performances from Studio 8H in New York, the original cast set the tone for years to follow with their irreverent, edgy humor. They combined anti-establishment political satire with rock-and-roll attitude for a show that spoke to the youth of the 1970s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SATSummary: Features hours of hilarious sketches, memorable skits from the original Season 4 cast, and all the original musical performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SATSummary: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HE RATED PG-13Summary: Delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. Follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny. Shows the future conqueror and revealing him not as the evil brute, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MONSummary: U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Mission 2000Summary: Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007