Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLISummary: It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCHSummary: Join Scout and his friends as they learn letter sounds with the help of some amazing animals! Scout, Violet, Eli and Penny long to learn about new animals. When their magical toy car, Axle, whisks them away to a farm, they discover a remarkable alphabet collection and ABC antics ensue! As the friends get in shape with an athletic alligator, console a sad seal, converse with a high-pitched...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join Thomas and his construction friends for fun and adventure. From demolition to digging and steamrolling, this team really knows how to work together. When a storm causes chaos on the island, Thomas and his friends must pull together to restore it in time for the big game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD TSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: World War II saw the first full-scale aerial battles, as well as an unprecedented degree of air attacks against civilians. This program looks at both the Royal Air Force's attacks on Berlin, and the Luftwaffe's retaliatory bombing of London. Along with footage of dogfights, the program also looks at Germany's formidable anti-aircraft guns. At the behest of the Nazi party, the German military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pen & Sword 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERSummary: Two otherwise inseparable brothers are pulled apart by war. 19 year-old Pete leaves behind his little brother and inspired by his own sense of duty, Willie embarks upon his own heroic journey, setting out by foot to rejoin his brother and enlist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shoe Clerk Picture Co. 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWOSummary: A rare glimpse of early Japanese anime and prewar Japanese culture, The roots of Japanese anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's sea eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan's first feature anime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zakka Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROOSummary: "Selected by specialists at the Archives, Natural Disasters chronicles some of the world's most devastating earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires and volcanoes. Also recounted are the heroic efforts of relief workers to return cities to normal and the attempts of local governments to better prepare for future events." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Topics Entertainment 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATSummary: Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEPSummary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2011