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: "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: These three classic Charlie Chan mysteries made by famed B-movie titans Monogram pictures gives us two different Charlies in the persons of Sidney Toler (The Red Dragon) and Roland Winters (The Feathered Serpent, The Sky Dragon), but both styles of supersleuth must tackle truly draconian mysteries and murder. The Red Dragon finds Charlie (Toler) and Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) cracking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHASummary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIDContents: Daffy Duck's rhapsody (Mel Blanc) -- Yoda ("Weird Al" Yankovic) -- The elements (Tom Lehrer) -- Deteriorata (National Lampoon) -- Charlie Brown (the Coasters) -- Dungeons and dragons (the Dead Alewives) -- Eskimo (Corky & the Juice Pigs) -- The ballad of Bilbo Baggins (Leonard Nimoy) -- Kill the wabbit (Ozzy Fudd) -- Stress (Jim's Big Ego) -- On the shoulders of freaks (Henry Phillips) -- Bars...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Dolese, George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 DOLSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in a definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved, and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAISummary: A contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FANSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACSummary: Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison. Featuring unreleased archive interviews and footage with Harrison, exclusive interviews with Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Grant, Neil Jordan, Ray Cooper, and unseen interviews with Bob Hoskins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCHolmes, George
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.21 HOLContents: I feel better all over (Ferlin Husky) (2:34) -- My walking' shoes (Dusty Payne) (2:29) -- Yer fer me (Fuzzy Owen) (1:46) -- Rhythm and booze (Buck Owens as Corky Jones) (2:13) -- What's good for the goose (Terry Fell) (1:56) -- Somehow, someway, someday (The Farmer Boys) (2:16) -- Stop the clock (Bob Ehret) (1:52) -- Phone me baby (Bill Woods) (2:00) -- Teenage tears (Cliff Crofford) (2:33) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OTHDolen, Carolyn E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Idyll Arbor 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 DOLBrown, George E. (George Ernest)
Summary: Pruning is one of the most important and least understood horticultural skills. Knowledge of proper technique and the needs of individual plants makes it possible to develop a strong framework and correct awkward, dangerous, or unattractive growth. Pruning can also help maintain or improve flower display and fruit production and ensure that your trees and shrubs will look their best...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 BROF Wulschner E Cowles
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Ditson Co. 1922
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE BRASummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon₂s Maigret (1960- 1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon₂s world famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon₂s books have been adapted many times, Davies₂s celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon₂s Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. The BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022