RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number-- December 2011
A - general
B - philosophy, psychology, religion
C - biography
D - history
E - history - United States
F - history - individual states, other North American countries
G - anthropology and geography
H - business and economics
J - political science
K - law
L - education
M - music
N - art
P - literature and film
Q - sciences
R - medicine
S - agriculture
T - engineering and technology
U - military science
V - naval science
W - medicine (NLM classification)
Z - library science
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Hoagland's Mars [videorecording] / NSI (New Science Ideas).
Venice, CA : NSI, c2005.
Hoagland presents NASA data to show that the Earth and solar system have been visited by intelligences from other worlds. Uses photos, computer graphics, and other video images to make a case for connections between features on the moon and Mars, and ruins of ancient civilizations on Earth
CB156 .H63 2005.
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Vietnam in HD [videorecording].
[United States : A & E Home Video, 2011].
This is the story of the men who came home from the Vietnam War and tried to forget. The men who represent a second silent generation. Covered is the time period from the initial massive troop build-up in 1965 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Contains never-before-seen color footage transferred to high definition as well as a soundtrack filled with hits from the era. Includes narration from Josh Brolin, and and voice-overs by Blair Underwod, Zachary Levi, and Jennifer Love Hewitt
DS558 .V54 2011.
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Freedom [videorecording] : a history of US / Kunhardt Productions ; produced and directed by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt.
[S.l.] : Kunhardt Productions ; [Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.
A documentary series chronicling the epic journey of America's commitment to liberty and the idea of freedom
E178 .F738 2003B.
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Choreography by Balanchine [videorecording] / choreographed and reconceived for television by George Balanchine ; a production of WNET/13.
New York, NY : Nonesuch Records, [2004].
A collection of selected Balanchine ballets
GV1790.A1 C485 2004.
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Toilet training [videorecording] : law & order (in the bathroom) / by Tara Mateik ; original concept by Dean Spade.
[New York, N.Y.] : Sylvia Rivera Law Project, c2003.
"Addresses the persistent discrimination, harassment, and violence that people who transgress gender norms face in gender segregated bathrooms. Using the stories of people who have been harassed, arrested or beaten for trying to use bathrooms, this groundbreaking film focuses on bathroom access in public space, in schools, and at work"--Container
HQ1075 .T65 2003.
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Tabloid [videorecording].
[United States : IFC Films, 2011].
In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary, and tied him to a bed to 'deprogram' his religious beliefs-by having nonstop sex with him. Director Errol Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page
HV6557 .T33 2011.
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A history of equal rights in America [videorecording] / produced by Centre Communications, Inc. for Ambrose Video Publishing ; producer, Ron Meyer ; director, Ron Meyer ; writers, Ron Meyer, Mark Reeder.
New York, NY : Ambrose Video Publishing, c2011.
"Recounts the significant advances and the ongoing effort to gain a clear and permanent guarantee of privileges for women and all economically disadvantaged groups. From the right to own property, to the formation of labor unions, women's suffrage, consumer rights, equal pay, Title IX and the Disabilities Act. This series includes key historical individuals such as: Susan B. Anthony, Horace Mann, Mary Lyon, Juana Briones, Betty Friedan, Madeleine Albright and more."--Container
JC599.U5 H5786 2011.
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Boy Scouts of America v. Dale [videorecording] : the gay scoutmaster case / produced by Centre Communications, Inc. ; producer/director, writer, Ron Meyer.
New York : Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., c2010.
Examines the case, the Supreme Court arguments, and the impact of the clash between First Amendment freedom of association and the State's interest in eradicating discrimination based on sexual orientation
KF228.B69 B69 2010.
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Hot coffee [videorecording] : is justice being served?
[United States] : Docurama Films, 2011.
Exposes how corporations spent millions on a propaganda campaign to distort Americans' view of lawsuits, forever changing the civil justice system. From the infamous case of the woman who sued McDonalds over spilled coffee to the saga of the Mississippi Supreme Court Justice deemed 'not corporate enough' by business interests, this program tears apart the conventional wisdom about 'frivolous lawsuits.
KF1250 .H68 2011.
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Festival express [videorecording] / Thinkfilm ; Gavin Poolman and John Trapman present a film by Bob Smeaton ; producers, Gavin Poolman, John Trapman ; director, Bob Smeaton.
[United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2004], c1970.
In 1970, such names as Janis Joplin, The Band, and the Grateful Dead traveled by a customized train for five days to Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary for a mega-concert at each stop. The entire experience was filmed both on-stage and off but the footage was locked away, until now
M1630.18 .F47 2004.
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Ayla [videorecording] / ein Film von Su Turhan ; eine Burkertbareiss Produktion der TV6oFilm.
München : Zorro Medien GmbH, c2011.
An independent Turkish woman living in Germany falls in love with a photographer, not knowing that he is complicit in a plot to harass his sister who has dishonored her family by fleeing her husband in order to raise her daughter in Germany
PN1997.2 .A98 2009B.
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À bout portant [videorecording] = Point blank / produced by Cyril Colbeau-Justin and Jean-Baptiste Dupont ; written and directed by Fred Cavaye.
[United States] : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2011].
A nurse in a Paris hospital is pitted against both rival gangsters and the police when his pregnant wife is kidnapped and he has three hours to get a man under police surveillance out of the hospital
PN1997.2 .A2 2010B.
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Blue, white, red [videorecording] : three colors / by Krzysztof Kieslowski.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, c2011.
"A bold trio of stories about love and loss ... [that] was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 90s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity--but that hardly explains their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red ... examine a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions"--Container
PN1997.A1 K54 2011.
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Circumstance [videorecording] / directed by Maryam Keshavarz.
[United States] : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2011].
A provocative coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture filled with sex, drugs and defiance. This suspenseful tale of love and defiance unfolds as a wealthy family struggles to contain their teenage daughter's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession
PN1997.2 .C5738 2011.
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The world is big and salvation lurks around the corner [videorecording] = Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade.
[United States] : Olive Films, 2011.
After surviving a horrific car accident a young man can't even remember his own name. In an attempt to cure him from his amnesia, his quirky grandfather travels to Germany and organizes a spiritual journey for his grandson, back to the country of his birth. While traveling with his grandfather across time and place on a tandem bicycle, the young man begins to reconnect with his forgotten past. Based on Ilija Trojanow's autobiography
PN1997.2 .W6753 2011.
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Gang de qin [videorecording] / Wan mei shi jie (Beijing) ying shi wen hua you xian gong si, Dalian hong yuan ying shi chuan mei you xian gong si, Liaoning dian ying zhi pian chang ; zhi pian ren, Ch'oe, Kwang-sok, Gan Huiyin ; bian ju dao yan, Zhang Meng = The piano in a factory / Perfect World (Beijing) Pictures Co., Ltd., Dalian Hong Yuan Film & TV Co., Ltd., Liao Ning Film Studio ; producers, Choi Guang-suk, Jessica Kam Huiyin, screenplay/director, Zhang Meng.
[Fair Lawn, N.J.] : Film Movement, 2011.
When Chen's estranged wife reappears asking for a divorce and custody of their daughter, the musical girl decides she will live with whoever can provide her with a piano. Chen tries to borrow money and even steal a piano, and then plans to make a piano from scratch, persuading friends to help him create the instrument in a derelict factory from a heap of scrap steel. Le noeud cravate = The necktie -- "A man leads a drab existence in a dead -end job, until one day he discovers a forgotten birthday gift that magically reignites his long lost joy of life."--Container
PN1997.2 .G358 2011.
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History of the world--part I (Motion picture). TITLE = History of the world, part 1 [videorecording] / 20th Century Fox ; a Mel Brooks film ; directed, written and produced by Mel Brooks ; a Brooksfilms production released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2006.
A humorous look at the ages of man. Includes eras through the French Revolution
PN1997.2 .H578679 2006.
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Margin call [videorecording] / director, J.C. Chandor.
[United States] : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2011.
Set in the high-stakes world of Wall Street, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24- hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry- level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster
PN1997.2 M37 2011.
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Crimes and misdemeanors [videorecording] / an Orion Pictures release.
Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, c2001.
Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature
PN1997 .C743 2001.
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Mildred Pierce (Television program). TITLE = Mildred Pierce [videorecording] / director, Todd Haynes.
[United States] : Home Box Office, [2012].
This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce
PN1992.77 .M5537 2012.
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5 days of war [videorecording] / director Renny Harlin.
[United States] : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2011.
Based on true events, this intense film is a vivid account of a renegade American journalist, his cameraman and a local woman caught behind enemy lines, and determined to not only survive, but tell the world what was happening, during the swift but devastating 5-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008
PN1997.2 .A155 2011.
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Snow flower and the secret fan [videorecording].
[United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2011.
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship
PN1997.2 .S588 2011.
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La rafle [videorecording] / Gaumont, Légende ... [et al.] ; produit par Ilan Goldman ; écrit et réalisé par Rose Bosch.
[Paris] : Gaumont, c2010.
Dramatizes the lives of both French Jews and those who seized them in German-occupied Paris during the summer of 1942
PN1997.2 .R345 2010B.
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Love crime [videorecording] / Sundance Selects and UGC present ; a film by Alain Corneau with Patrick Mille ; produced by Said Ben Said ; screenplay adaptation dialogues by Alain Corneau and Natalie Carter.
New York, NY : MPI Home Video, 2011.
Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far, to the point of no return
PN1997.2 .L68 2011.
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Flypaper [videorecording] / director, Rob Minkoff.
[United States] : IFC Films, [2011].
A nervous bank customer has a crush on beautiful teller. They and the other staff and customers become hostages when two very different groups of crooks hit the bank simultaneously. When people begin mysteriously dying one by one, everyone involved begins to wonder if there's someone else in the bank up to no good
PN1997.2 .F59 2011.
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The tempest [videorecording] / [written and directed by Julie Taymor].
[United States] : Touchstone Home Entertainment, 2011.
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge
PN1997.2 .T46 2011.
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Horatio Hornblower [videorecording] : the further adventures / produced by United Productions for Meridian Broadcasting in association with A & E network ; producer, Andrew Benson ; director, Andrew Grieve.
[United States] : A & E Home Video, 2011.
He is the ultimate high-seas hero: a man of unshakable courage, unwavering principles, and extraordinary skill. Joining the Royal Navy at the outset of the bloody Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower rises quickly from raw recruit to seasoned sailor, and his exploits become the stuff of legend. Collection includes The Dutchess and the Devil and The Wrong War
PN1992.77 .H67 2011.
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JFK [videorecording] / Warner Bros. presents in association with Le Studio Canal +, Regency Enterprises and Alcor Films an Ixtlan Corporation and an A. Kitman Ho production ; screenplay by Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar ; produced by A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone ; directed by Oliver Stone.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2008.
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession
PN1997 .J465 1991B.
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Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. Part 2 [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Heyday Films production, a David Yates film ; screenplay, Steve Kloves ; producers, David Heyman, David Barron, J.K. Rowling ; director, David Yates.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2011].
In the epic finale of the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding, Harry may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice in the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort
PR6068.O93 H3583522 2011B.
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