Summary: Suffering from the shortages and shady business transactions following the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the citizens of Copenhagen are still slogging through the grey zone of the post-war era; the orderly decade of the 1950s hasn't arrived yet. City gangsters and black marketeers are having the time of their lives - they can lay their hands on anything from extra ration coupons, booze and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Corporation 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: Pagford is a seemingly idyllic English village with a cobbled market square and ancient abbey. Behind the pretty facade, however, is a town at war: rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils. Pagford is not what it first seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Casual 2015Summary: A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REBSummary: The 11-part BBC series is narrated by Sir David Attenborough and organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been represented.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD PLASummary: This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASISummary: Beset by the political tension of an unsettled year, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JEWSummary: The question on everyone's lips is finally answered as the hugely popular Sherlock returns in three brand new action-packed adventures. With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again the game is on for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHE RATED NRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Sh 3Summary: Examines the life of Muhammad Ali in and out of the boxing ring, covering his ties with the Nation of Islam, his political postions, including his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, his role as a symbol of Black masculinity, and life after boxing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUHSummary: The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BASSummary: Chronicles the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, location photography, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STO NOT RATEDSummary: The revealing documentary of Earth explores the planet's most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed center stage. We see what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud, including massive bombardments from space, extreme...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USSummary: A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WOL RATED NRSummary: Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRA NOT RATEDSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013