Summary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMSummary: Flying the Secret Sky: The Story of RAF Ferry Command tells a story of passionate risk-taking, of young men braving dangerous flights in primitive aircraft. These "cowboys of the air" are forgotten heroes of the war, who flew without guns and embodied an improvisational spirit that was key to Allied victory. Their story includes the American civilian chosen to fly Winston Churchill to secret...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FLYSummary: Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NIGSummary: Tells the story of the world's only yodeling country singing and comedy lesbian sibling duo, the Topp Twins (Jools and Lynda Topp), who have inspired a generation with their politics and celebration of joy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kinosmith 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOPSummary: He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PRISummary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TuskegeeSummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAISullivan, Arthur
Summary: Hilarion, awaiting the arrival of Princess Ida, who was betrothed to him twenty years earlier, learns that she has renounced mankind and formed a women's university.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
Summary: Season Three takes a heart-racing turn when Red and Agent Keen, become fugitives on the run. With Assistant FBI Director Harold Cooper under investigation, Agent Donald Ressler leads the FBI Task Force on the manhunt. As Keen delves deeper into Red's underworld of covert operations, she continues to struggle with self-discovery and her indefinable relationship with Tom. Both Red and Keen are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bl 3Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: While the Task Force reels from Liz's resurrection and Red deals with the betrayal of those closest to him, Liz is targeted by a man claiming to be her father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BlSummary: Examines the long career of the Grateful Dead featuring new interviews with the surviving members of the group and never-before-seen footage of the group's performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Summary: Rick McKay filmed over one hundred of Broadway and Hollywood's greatest stars. In their own words they tell how they came to New York and created this legendary century in American theatre, thereby preserving the memories of historic Broadway performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dada Films/RCA Victor/BMG 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROSummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FULLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOCSummary: William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRA RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brave 2000Summary: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs,"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLASummary: The young ambitious D'Artagnan arrives aspiring to join the Musketeers, proves he is worthy, and with the others helps save the honor of their Queen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: "Rare and fascinating films preserved in the museum's archives. Many have never been released to the public before and are presented here, complete and uncut, for the very first time. ... [These 24 training and public information films cover a] range of subjects from ditching procedures for Halifax bomber crews ... to the best way to rescue crashed fighter pilots from their cockpits. There are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROYSummary: Shows you how to start your own plants from seed, by division, cuttings, layering, and grafting. Excellent for students and employees, this new program is also ideal for gardening enthusiasts who want to learn more about growing their own plants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A.C. Burke & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.53 INTSummary: When a brother and sister invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004