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Barwick, Julianna Bock, Jerry. Carman Hutton, Warwick. Warrick, Joby Warwick, Ellen.Summary: "From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality through sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. But, while musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIDSummary: "MOJO presents a collection of contemporary independent music. The breadth of the artists represented here is intentional. From established artists such as The Fall, Explosions in the Sky, Beach House and Lush through to emerging acts like Let's Eat Grandma, Ian William Craig, Throws and onDeadWaves, each act possesses a distinct voice. Moreover, this compilation reveals that modern day...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: "Twelve-year-old Leah has always wanted a pony. When she gets a job on her uncle's farm, she believes her dream might come true. Little does she know she has begun an adventure in which she will encounter a magical leprechaun, battle her evil cousin and bring a fairy-tale princess back to life--all in search of her beautiful white pony."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Concorde Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHISummary: A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BELBock, Jerry.
Contents: Prologue And Tradition & Main Title (00:11:21) -- Matchmaker (3:55) -- If I Were A Rich Man (5:25) -- Sabbath Prayer (2:39) -- To Life (6:13) -- Miracle Of Miracles (2:04) -- Tevye's Dream (6:42) -- Sunrise, Sunset (3:51) -- Wedding Celebration And The Bottle Dance (3:52) -- Do You Love Me? (3:11) -- Far From The Home I Love (3:00) -- Chava Ballet Sequence (2:33) -- Anatevka (3:37) -- Finale...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI/EMI Records (USA) 1971
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Summary: A timeless fantasy tale where heroes come in all sizes. While Willow Ufgood finds an abandoned baby girl, he learns she is destined to end the reign of wicked Queen Bavmorda. Willow teams up with a rogue swordsman to protect the child against the darkness. Filled with magic and danger, this is the ultimate story of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Willow 2001Summary: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.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: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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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: "Lost and alone, a young Indian boy travels through the wilds of the Old West. He finds shelter with a widowed horse trainer, who names him Frankie and teaches the outcast the tricks of the trade"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Gemstone Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Red 2003Carman
Contents: I got the joy (4:29) -- Sunday's on the way (6:17) -- Revive us, oh Lord (3:46) -- Lazarus come forth (6:24) -- Soap song (1:52) -- Lord of all (4:05) -- Revival in the land (6:29) -- God's got an army (4:27) -- No way, we are not ashamed (4:16) -- Radically saved (2:30) -- This blood -- Fear not my child (5:29) -- Celebrating Jesus (4:17) -- The champion (6:53) -- Serve the Lord (5:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS CARSummary: Eli Roth explores the dark power and wicked fun of scary movies, the craft that went into making them and the ways that horror films reflect the anxieties of their times. The themes include Houses of Hell, Monsters, Body Horror, Witches, Chilling Children, and Classic Horror. Interviewees include Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Jordan Peele and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ELICarman
Contents: Disc 1. Heart of a champion -- Jesus period -- Prayer -- Great God -- A witch's invitation -- Who's in the house -- The river -- Holdin' on -- My story -- Jericho, the shout of victory -- I feel Jesus -- Now's the time -- Legendary mission -- Mission 3:16 -- America again.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS CARBarwick, Julianna
Contents: Inspirit -- Oh, memory (ft. Mary Lattimore) -- Healing is a miracle -- In light (ft. Jónsi) -- Safe -- Flowers -- Wishing well -- Nod (ft. Nosaj Thing).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BARWarrick, Joby
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 WARHutton, Warwick.
Summary: A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 1992