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Summary: Follows the adventures of a newly widowed woman as she navigates her new life with the help of her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUMSummary: Life in Judge Harry Stone's court starts with a tear (as the gang says farewell to Selma) and a horselaugh (as they welcome wiseacre Flo to the municipal menagerie). Harry and his staff contend with New York's zaniest nuts and dolts: the usual winos, weirdos, hookers and con artists, plus an orangutan, a rock star, a man from Saturn and a gorgeous witch who has Harry under her spell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGSummary: The final season. Features all 22 episodes including A Guy Named Phantom Part 1 and 2, My Life as a Dog Lawyer, Puppy Love, Pop Goes the Question, Looking for Mr. Shannon, Opportunity Knocks Part 1 and 2, and The 1992 Boat Show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGSummary: Judge Harold T. Stone, Dan, Bull, Selma, and new public defender Christine return for a rollicking second season of dispensing justice to the assorted nuts of Night Court.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1984
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGWagstaff, Liz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 698.1 WAGSummary: Season 5 opens with a distraught Judge Harry T. Stone, unaware he has his job back, planning to pull off a maniacal prank against the City of New York. Dan is given an unwanted overseas assignment, public defender Christine comes to the rescue when Roz has trouble with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Bull gets struck by lightning and thinks God spoke to him and Mac works on curing his technophobia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGWagner, Richard
Summary: "Glyndebourne's celebrated production of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Tristan und Isolde is a supremely intelligent achievement; gravely beautiful, haunting and meditative, it is deeply reflective rather than visceral, fortified by Roland Aeschlimann's stunningly effective set, a womb-like space through which the protagonists move like gods."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRISummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO