Summary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANSummary: His personal journey changed the European understanding of the world forever. This is the absorbing true story of Venetian explorer Marco Polo's arduous trek to the East, and beyond. Literally, it's the adventure of a lifetime. Sent on a mission to accompany two priests to China with the goal of converting Kublai Khan and his court to Christianity, Marco Polo finds himself left to carry on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: A musical-variety program with a cast made up of Muppets and guest stars. So, go bonkers with Beaker, goofy with Gonzo and join the brave cast of "Pigs in space" for Muppet fun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A muiscal-variety program with a cast made up of Muppets and guest stars. So, go bonkers with Beaker, goofy with Gonzo and join the brave cast of "Pigs in space" for Muppet fun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUPSummary: Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. DG, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around working as a waitress and goes to school part time. Before she knows it, she's back in OZ and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia, her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitches; Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid; and, Wyatt Cain,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TinSummary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORISummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROMSummary: BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's work, chronicling nearly 50 turbulent years of a wealthy English family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FORSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2005
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SABSummary: An exploration of Sinead O'Connor's rise and fall and her enduring cultural impact. By the age of 20, O'Connor was one of Ireland's brightest rising stars but her decision to use her fame as a platform to speak out on several controversial issues shifted her narrative from global stardom to worldwide condemnation. In a new interview, O'Connor reveals the abusive upbringing that left her feeling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NOTSummary: Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1988
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASContents: Molly Malone -- Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile -- The singing bird -- My Lagan love -- I am stretched on your grave -- Nothing compares 2 U -- John I love you -- The Moorlough Shore -- You made me the thief of your hart -- Paddy's lament -- Thank you for hearing me -- Fire on Babylon -- The last day of our acquaintance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SINSummary: Jen the Gelfling must undertake a dangerous quest to restore the all-powerful Dark Crystal, in order to return light and order to the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DARSummary: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECSummary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GallipoliSummary: Former astronaut Jeff Tracy uses his vast fortune to fund the super-secret organization, International Rescue. With his five sons plus a brilliant engineer and a network of intelligence agents, Tracy provides emergency rescue services for any crisis, whether on land, sea, air, or space.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV THUMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MANSummary: Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015