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Dukakis, Olympia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DUKAKIS, OLYMPIA DUK

Summary: pt.1. After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. Includes the marathon, men's diving, and American track star Jesse Owen's sprint races at the 1936 Olympic games. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLY

Summary: In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BOY

Contents: The flying saucer (parts 1 & 2) (Buchanan & Goodman) -- Western movies (the Olympics) -- Baby talk (Jan & Dean) -- The all-American boy (Bill Parsons) -- The ballad of Davy Crockett (Bill Hayes) -- Seven little girls sitting in the back seat (Paul Evans & the Curls) -- Nee nee na na na na nu nu (Dicky Doo & the Don'ts) -- Got a match? (the Daddy-O's) -- Shaving cream (Benny Bell) -- Hot rod...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Varèse Sarabande 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TWE

Summary: Freewheeling to San Francisco, Mary Ann Singleton quickly realizes just how far from Cleveland she really is. Moving into a funky house at Twenty-eight Barbary Lane where her landlord welcomes her with a joint, Mary Ann befriends the other residents and finds a good-natured home amid the drugs, drama, and debauchery. Based on Armistead Maupin's beloved novel, the Peabody Award-winning PBS...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAL

Summary: The poignant account of an elderly woman struggling to age with dignity. After a serious fall, Emily is forced to move in with her daughter and must come to terms with the inevitability of growing old.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Multicom Entertainment 1991

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Summary: Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Joan of Arc

Terrell, Brandon

Summary: After Nate's middle school basketball team suffers a frustrating loss, he and his cousin Rachel travel back in time to see the 1992 Dream Team in Barcelona, and learn about teamwork--but he still needs to convince the other players on his team to share the ball.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TER

Summary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOU

Summary: An epic fantasy tale of good versus evil, friendship and sacrifice. With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo the hobbit embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting him are servants of the Dark Lord Sauron, the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, the whole of Middle-Earth is doomed. Part one of three films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR

Summary: In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAL

Summary: Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

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Contents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023

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Summary: Based on the true story of the most famous team in the history of American sports: the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Follow from the team's selection process to the ultimate victory over Finland for the gold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainemnt 2004

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MIR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Miracle

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIR RATED PG

Maraniss, David.

Summary: Maranisss offers an account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, revealing the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that evaluates the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.48 MAR

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Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TOD

Summary: Four young men form Jamaica's first bobsled team, in hopes of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Loosely based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COO RATED PG

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Matthew, a young African American with asthma who dreams of becoming an Olympic runner like his hero, Jesse Owens, accompanies his journalist father to the 1936 Olympics in Germany.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SMI

Terrell, Brandon

Summary: After a fall during her balance beam routine thirteen-year-old Rachel and her cousin use the magical Sports Illustrated magazines in their grandfather's collection to travel back to the 1976 Olympics to observe Nadia Comăneci's perfect routines--and incidentally meet their grandfather who is covering the Olympics as a sports reporter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone Press imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TER

Terrell, Brandon

Summary: After he accidentally injures a teammate during relay race practice, thirteen-year-old Nate and his cousin Rachel travel back in time to meet Jesse Owens, and get a chance to see him run in the 1936 Olympics--and almost lose the Sports Illustrated magazine that is their ticket back to the present.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TER

Summary: Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ed

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EDD

Brown, Daniel

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Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from Eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 797.123 BRO

Smith, Tommie

Summary: "A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SMI

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SMI

Summary: A musical biography portrayal concerning the life and music of composer, Jerome Kern. Incorporates excerpts from several of his popular musicals including Showboat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TIL

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