RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number-- June 2012
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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Where soldiers come from [videorecording] / Quincy Hill Films + ITVS present in association with American Documentary/POV ; a film by Heather Courtney ; directed and produced by Heather Courtney ; executive producers, Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry ; a co-production of Quincy Hill Films and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with American Documentary/ POV with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Austin, TX : Quincy Hill Films, LLC ; San Francisco, CA : ITVS, 2011.
In Michigan's snowy Upper Peninsula, job opportunities are few, and friends are usually for life. For Dominic Fredianelli and his high school buddies, joining the National Guard offered a $20,000 windfall and assistance with college tuition--all for only one weekend a month. Little did they know. This documentary follows three of these young men over four eventful years: through basic training and a 2009 deployment to an explosives unit in Afghanistan; to visits with their families while they are overseas; and the rocky return home, without commentary. Focusing on the reverberations of war in small, close-knit communities the film offers a commentary on class, as the real cost of distant political decisions are illuminated, as well as the shame of a country with little to offer its less fortunate young people than a ticket to a battlefield
DS371.413 .W54 2011B.
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The boy Mir [videorecording] : ten years in Afghanistan / Seventh Art Productions ; directed and filmed by Phil Grabsky.
[s.l.] : Seventh Art ; San Francisco : Distributed by Microcinema International, Inc., c2010.
Tracks the irrepressible and lovable Mir from a naive eight-year-old to a fully grown adult. Over the decade, it not only is a journey that follows Mir as he journeys into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth, but it's a film that is unmatched in mirroring and revealing the vitally important story of modern Afghanistan
DS351.5 .B69 2010.
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Granito [videorecording] : a story in three parts / Skylight Pictures ; a film by Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Paco de Onís ; producer, Paco de Onís ; director, Pamela Yates ; writers, Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Paco de Onís.
[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Skylight Pictures, c2011.
Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, a military leader in Guatemala during the early 1980s, was responsible for the deaths of more than 200,000 Mayans. The filmmaker Pamela Yates was there at the time, making the documentary "When the mountains tremble" and her film was later entered as evidence by lead counsel Almudena Bernabeu during the genocide trials of seven Guatemalan military officials. This film tells the story of five main characters whose destinies collided in the Guatemala of 1982
F1466.5 .G734 2011.
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In schools we trust [videorecording] / producer, Karena O'Riordan ; [presentation of South Carolina ETV and Learning Matters].
Columbia, SC : South Carolina ETV : Learning Matters, Inc., 2011, 1996,
Traces the history of education in the United States from the inception of the public school system, to the teaching of John Dewey while he was at Teachers College, to the Proposed policies by several recent presidents for the future of education in the country. Includes additional footage from Teachers College, Columbia University
LA212 .I5 1996B.
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Art:21 (Television program). Season 6. TITLE = Art 21, art in the 21st century. Season 6 [videorecording] / curator, Susan Sollins ; series created by Susan Sollins and Susan Dowling.
[United States] : PBS Distribution, [2012].
Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century
N6512 .A6685 2012.
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Seven wonders of the Buddhist world [videorecording] / a Crescent Films Production for BBC TV ; produced and directed by Faris Kermani.
[United States] : PBS Distribution, [2012].
Join historian Bettany Hughes as she explores the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigates how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, through visits to seven of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists across the globe
NA6002 .S48 2012.
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Harold and Maude [videorecording] / director, Hal Ashby.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2012.
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by Cat Stevens
PN1997 .H37 2012.
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Tomboy [videorecording] / writer/director, Céline Sciamma.
New Almaden, CA : Wolfe Video LLC, [2012].
A 10-year old tomboy pretends to be a boy after moving to a new neighborhood
PN1997.2 .T659 2011B.
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Act of valor (Motion picture). TITLE = Act of valor [videorecording] / a Bandito Brothers production ; in association with Tom Clancy ; a Relativity Media presentation ; directed by Scott Waugh, Mouse McCoy ; written by Kurt Johnstad ; produced by Mouse McCoy, Scott Waugh.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2012.
When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hot spots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack"-- Container
PN1997.2 .A2975 2012B.
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Certified copy [videorecording] / MK2, in co-production with Bibi Films, France 3 Cinema ; produced by Marin Karmitz ... [et al.] ; directed and screenplay Abbas Kiarostami.
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, 2012.
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma
PN1997.2 .C478 2010B.
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Go-ji-jeon [videorecording] = The front line : last battle of the Korean War / a Jang Hun film ; presented by Showbox/Mediaplex ; a TPS Company production ; in assiciation with A-Po Films ; produced by Robert Lee, Kim Hyun- Chol ; screenplay by Park Sang-Yeon ; directed by Jang Hun. TITLE = {6f494a}{6f5829}{6f5736}.
[Plano, TX] : Well Go USA, c2011.
The story of about three million soldiers who fought a war, no longer remembering the reason, and died, wishing for the end of it, while negotiations for peace remained unresolved for 25 months following June 1951. It is estimated that the Korean War left four million dead. The war continued for 37 months, and the armistice negotiations continued for two years and two months during the war. The entire military force was concentrated in a battle for the hills
PN1997.2 .F76 2011B.
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Kinyarwanda [videorecording] : there is always a choice / Visigoth Pictures ; in association with Cineduc Rwanda and BloK BoX IMG presents ; produced by Darren Dean, Tommy Oliver ; story by Ishmael Ntihabose ; written and directed by Alrick Brown.
Philadelphia : Breaking Glass Pictures, c2012.
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human resilience
PN1997.2 .K5675 2011B.
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Michael [videorecording] / Nikolas Geyrhalter Filmproduktion ; producers, Nikolaus Geyrhalter ... [et al.] ; screenplay and direction, Markus Schleinzer.
[United States] : Strand Releasing Home Video, c2011.
A seemingly meek insurance agent has a secret: he's holding 10-year-old Wolfgang captive in a locked room in his basement. Chronicling a five-month period, the film creates a tense portrait of how the most mundane lives can mask the ugliest truth. With rich cinematic detail and unnerving insight, it's a masterfully executed study of a monster
PN1997.2 .M5285 2011B.
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Red tails [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Lucasfilm Ltd. production ; produced by Rick McCallum and Charles Floyd Johnson ; screenplay by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder ; directed by Anthony Hemingway.
Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2012.
Dramatizes the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American fighter pilots who were subjected to racism while training at home and fighting abroad, but who proved themselves when sent to Italy in 1944
PN1997.2 .R434 2012B.
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Sound of noise [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures and Bliss present in association with Wild Bunch ; written and directed by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson ; produced by Jim Bermant ... [et al.].
Los Angeles, CA : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2012].
Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of reenegade musicians decide to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra. Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigations
PN1997.2 .S6854 2012.
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We need to talk about Kevin [videorecording] / [producers, Jennifer Fox, Luc Roeg, Robert Salerno ; screenplay, Lynn Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear ; directed by Lynn Ramsay].
[United States] : Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2012.
A distraut mother questions her responsibility for her increasingly malevolent son and her blindly complacent husband
PN1997.2 .W4 2011B.
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Die Stille nach dem Schuss [videorecording] = The legend of Rita / Kino International ; eine Babelsberg Film produktion in coproduktion mit dem Mitteldeutsches Filmkontor und dem Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk ; Produzenten: Friedrich-Carl Wachs, Arthur Hofer, Emmo Lempert ; Regie: Volker Schlöndorff ; Drehbuch: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Volker Schlöndorff.
New York, NY : Kino on Video, c2001.
This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism
PN1997 .S685 2001.
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In darkness [videorecording] / a Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv GmbH, Studio Filmowe Zebra, The Film Works Production ; an Agnieszka Holland Film ; director, Agnieszka Holland ; producers, Steffen Reuter ... [et al.] ; writer, David F. Shamoon.
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012].
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience
PN1997 .I4734 2012.
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Wings (Motion picture : 1927). TITLE = Wings [videorecording] / a Paramount picture ; Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky present a Lucien Hubbard production ; directed by William A. Wellman ; story by John Monk Saunders ; screenplay by Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton.
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2012].
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I
PN1997 .W5647 2012.
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Man who shot Liberty Valance (Motion picture). TITLE = The man who shot Liberty Valance [videorecording] / a Paramount release ; screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck ; produced by Willis Goldbeck ; directed by John Ford.
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2009.
"Director [John] Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). [James] Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid Shinbone of Valance, and he finds that he has an unlikely ally -- in the form of a rugged local rancher (John Wayne). The two men also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). But when the final showdown becomes inevitable, one of the two will attempt to get the gunman ... but the other one will wind up getting the girl"--Container
PN1997 .M36 2009.
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Karigurashi no Arietti (Motion picture). TITLE = The secret world of Arrietty [videorecording] / Studio Ghibli ... [et al.] present ; planning & screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki ; produced by Toshio Suzuki ; directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
Burbank, CA : Disney : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2012.
In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live quietly among us. But when tenacious and tiny Arrietty is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, their secret and forbidden friendship blossoms into an extraordinary adventure
PN1997.2 .S43 2012.
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Coriolanus [videorecording] / Hermetof Pictures, Magna Films and Icon Entertainment International present, in association with Lip Sync Productions LLP and BBC Films, a Kalkronkie LLP production ... ; a Lonely Dragon production ; directed by Ralph Fiennes ; screenplay by John Logan ; produced by Ralph Fiennes ... [et al.].
[United States] : The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment ; Beverly Hills, CA : distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC, c2012.
Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' is a feared and revered Roman general, suddenly pitted against his own city and fellow citizens. Rebelling against the power-hungry designs of his manipulative mother and rejected by his own people, Coriolanus incites a riot that expels him from Rome. The banished hero joins forces with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius to extract his revenge and determine his destiny
PR2805 .A23 2011B.
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Extremely loud & incredibly close [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures prsents a Scott Rudin production, a Stephen Daldry film ; screenplay by Eric Roth ; produced by Scott Rudin ; directed by Stephen Daldry.
Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2012, c2011.
Oskar in conviced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnnected from his grieving mother and driven by a active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a greater undertstanding of the world around him
PS3606.O38 E972 2011B.
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Big stakes [videorecording] / directed by Clifford S. Elfelt.
Harrington Park, NJ : Milestone Film & Video, [2010].
Two early silent films featuring Latino characters. Big stakes: An American cowboy and a Mexican lawman clash over a beautiful woman. A fun ride across the plains of western cinema, which, for 1922, presents a complex look at Mexican and American stereotypes. Ramona: In this 1910 short a young girl growing up on her adoptive mother's ranch in California falls in love with the Indian, Alessandro. When she is denied permission to marry him, the two lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the bigotry and greed of the white landowners
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Jakob der Lügner [videorecording] / DEFA Studio für Spielfilme, Gruppe Johannisthal und Fernsehen der DDR ; eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion in Zusammenarbeit mit Filmové studio Barrandov ; Buch, Jurek Becker ; Produktionsleitung, Herbert Ehler ; Regie, Frank Beyer.
Northampton, MA : Icestorm International, c1999.
A Jew trapped in a Polish ghetto overhears rumors of a nearby Russian victory at Gestapo headquarters. In order to have the good news believed by his comrades, he pretends to have an illegal radio and creates further pieces of good news
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Wild Caribbean [videorecording] / 2 Entertain ; BBC ; BBC Bristol ; Series producer, Karen Bass ; executive producer, Fiona Pitcher.
[S.l.] : BBC Worldwide ; London : Distributed by 2 Entertain Video Ltd., 2007.
Explores the islands of the West Indies through Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the coast of Central America, examining the wildlife of the land and sea as well as the geological and meterological forces that shape the area
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Cane toads [videorecording] : the conquest / Participant Media ; Discovery Studios ; Screen Australia ; a Radio Pictures production ; written and directed by Mark Lewis ; producer, Mark Lewis.
[London, UK] : Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment, 2012.
Documents the environmental devastation left in the wake of the introduction of the Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) to Australia and the role of invasive species--and humans--in altering the ecosystem
QL668.E227 C324 2010B.
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