RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number-- February 2013
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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The man who saved the world [videorecording] / a Bedlam Production for Thirteen in association with WNET and Channel 1 Russia ; director, Nick Green.
[United States] : PBS Distribution, 2012.
This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster
D848 .S43 2012.
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The Silk Road [videorecording] : the journey from China to Turkey / produced by International Film & Video, Inc. ; Marlin Darrah, filmmaker.
Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Questar, Inc., [2012].
Travels through five countries along the Silk Road between China and Turkey, featuring the cultures, modern traditions, and histories of the regions
DS327.8 .S55 2012.
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The Danube exodus [videorecording] : two Danube stories filmed by Captain Andrásovits / Péter Forgács.
Amsterdam : Lumen Film & Television, [2007].
In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats.
DS135.S55 D36 1998B.
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Death and the Civil War [videorecording] / a Steeplechase Films production for American Experience ; produced by Robin Espinola, Bonnie Lafave, Ric Burns ; written and directed by Ric Burns.
[United States] : PBS Distribution, [2012].
Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a 'republic of suffering' and will chart the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War
E456 .A44 2012.
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Mr. Cao goes to Washington [videorecording] / a Center for Asian American Media Production ; in association with Walking Iris Media ; distributed by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) ; producer [and] director, S. Leo Chiang.
[New York] : New Day Films, c2012.
Explores the character and politics of Representative Joseph Cao, a Republican Vietnamese American surprisingly elected to represent an African American Democratic district in New Orleans
E184.V53 M57 2012.
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The Loving story [videorecording] / HBO Documentary Films presents ; an Augusta Films production ; director, Nancy Buirski ; produced by Nancy Buirski & Elisabeth Haviland James ; writers, Nancy Buirski & Susie Ruth Powell.
Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, c2011.
Documentary about the case of Richard & Mildred Loving, a white man & a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia for the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s
E185.62 .L68 2011.
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American Passages [videorecording] / Ruth Beckermann, director.
[Vienna] : distributed by Filmladen Filmverleih 2012.
"Initially, there's that moment of happiness: an African-American celebrating in Harlem cheers "We're free!" as if Barack Obama's victory meant the ultimate end of slavery. AMERICAN PASSAGES is an associative journey through the United States: a disillusioned Iraq veteran, gay adoptive fathers, black judges, white party animals and a pimp at a casino table in Las Vegas. The extreme contrasts of black and white, rich and poor, winners and losers are often as surprising as the meaning of the constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness in these times of crisis. An epic panorama of America.
E907 .B433 2011B.
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Birth and belief in the Andes of Ecuador / based on field research by Lauris McKee.
University Park, PA. : The Pennsylvania State University, c2006.
Women's beliefs and traditional medicine surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in the Ecuadorian provinces of Imbabura, Bolivar, Tungurahua and El Carchi
F3721.3.R44 .B57 1994B.
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California trilogy [videorecording] / James Benning.
Vienna (Wien) : Österreichischen Filmmuseum, 2012.
This three-part topographical study looks at the past while investigating the present. Three distinct landscapes (the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and the California wilderness) are compressed into 105 shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long
F866.2 .B38 2012.
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Arctic son [videorecording] / Arts Engine, Inc. in association with Big Mouth Films presents ; produced by Dallas Brennan Rexer and Elizabeth Mandel ; directed by Andrew Walton.
[New York, N.Y. ] : Docurama : Distributed by New Video Group, c2008.
The clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in a remote village 80 miles above the Arctic Circle
GN673 .A73 2008.
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Pina [videorecording] : dance, dance, otherwise we are lost / director, Wim Wenders.
[United States] : Image Entertainment, [2013].
A tribute to the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations
GV1786.T36 P563 2011.
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Splinters [videorecording] / director, producer: Adam Pesce ; producer: Perrin Chiles ; an In Effect Films production ; in association with Divisadero Pictures & Little House Productions.
[United States] : SnagFilms, c2012.
Twenty years prior, a pilot left behind a surfboard in a remote seaside village in Papua New Guinea. Today, the community is slintering as traditional society is affected by the outside influences introduced by the sport of surfing. Meanwhile four local surfers compete for the country's first-ever national surfing titles, dreaming of a better life
GV839.66.P26 S65 2012.
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Undefeated [videorecording] / directors, Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin.
[United States] : Anchor Bay Entertainment : [distributor] Alliance Films, [2013].
No hope. No future. Until a football season united a team and revealed the character that turned them into heroes. Undefeated is the inspiring and moving tale of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field
GV959.5 .U53 2013.
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The queen of Versailles [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures and Evergreen Pictures present ; in co-production with Plus Pictures, DR, VPRO ; a Lauren Greenfield film ; producers, Lauren Greenfield, Danielle Renfrew Behrens ; directed by Lauren Greenfield.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Magnolia Home Entertainment, c2012.
The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches-to-rags success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream
HC102.5.A2 Q44 2012.
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The Pruitt-Igoe myth [videorecording] / [a film by Chad Freidrichs] ; First Run Features presents a Unicorn Stencil production in association with the Missouri History Museum ; directed by Chad Freidrichs ; produced by Brian Woodman ... [et al.] ; script by Chad & Jaime Freidrichs.
[New York] : First Run Features, [2012?].
Traces the creation and demise of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in Saint Louis, Missouri. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as a marvel of modernist architecture and a milestone in public assistance and urban redevelopment, but in the years that followed it devolved into a haven for drug- related crime, and ended up stigmatizing the population it was intended to help
HD7304.U52 S2464 2012.
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Girl model [videorecording] / directed by Ashley Sabin, David Redmon.
[United States] : First Run Features, 2013.
Explores how young girls are discovered in obscure corners of the globe and initiated into the high stakes modeling industry. This eye-opening film follows two protagonists: Ashley Arbaugh, a former model and now scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces; and one of her discoveries, Nadya Vall, a 13-year-old plucked from her rustic home in Russia and dropped into the center of bustling Tokyo with promises of a profitable career
HD8039.M77 G57 2013.
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The other city [videorecording] / Cabin Films ; directed by Susan Koch ; produced by Sheila C. Johnson ; co-producer and writer, Jose Antonio Vargas.
[United States] : Cabin Films, c2010.
Examines the stories of Washington, DC, residents who are HIV-positive, a staggering 3% of the population. Also looks at the AIDS activists in the city
HQ76.3.U52 W186 2010.
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Chasing Madoff [videorecording] / Cohen Media Group presents ; a Jeff Prosserman production ; produced, written and directed by Jeff Prosserman.
Orland Park, IL : MPI Home Video, c2012.
Presents an account of how Harry Markopolos and his team of investigators uncovered Bernard Madoff's investment fraud empire
HV6692.M33 C495 2012.
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Scenes of a crime [videorecording] / New Box Productions presents a film by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh.
[Los Angeles, Calif.] : New Box Productions, c2012.
"What could lead an innocent man to confess to something he didn't do? Through one vivid example, Scenes of a crime explores how modern police interrogation tactics (including lies, threats and false evidence) place extraordinary pressures on suspects, and can encourage an innocent person to confess falsely."--Cover
HV8073.3 .S34 2012.
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The Pinochet case [videorecording] / [a film by Patricio Guzmaan].
[United States] : Icarus Films Home Video, [2012].
A film that explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for catching a dictator 25 years after his rise to power, making him the first to be humbled by the international justice system since the Nuremberg Trials. When Pinochet finally returned to Chile, he faced 200 accusations of his crimes, this time in Chilean courts. In January 2001, Pinochet was placed under house arrest, and the Chilean justice system finally started to make up for lost time
KD373.P56 P56 2012.
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Wagner : Der Ring des Nibelungen [videorecording] / staged and directed by Harry Kupfer.
West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur International Films, [2011].
This production of Wagner's The Ring at the Bayreuth Festival is an event that takes place every six years. Bayreuth recordings of the complete cycle are rare; this is the second filmed version. The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a five-year period and recorded at the conclusion
M1500.W13 W34 1991B.
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Radical harmonies [videorecording] / a Woman Vision film ; producer/ director, Dee Mosbacher ; co-producer, Boden C. Sandstrom ; associate producer, Margie Adam ; associate director, June Millington ; writers, Dee Mosbacher, Lisa Ginsburg.
San Francisco, CA : Woman Vision, c2002.
A look at the history of women's music, a movement focusing on music by women, for women, and about women
ML82 .R33 2002.
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Benda bilili! [videorecording] : [look beyond appearances] / [produced by] National Geographic Entertainment, Screenrunner, La Belle Kinoise, Studio 37 ; a film by Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tulaye.
[United States] : National Geographic Entertainment : Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment, c2012.
Some drug material. NOTE = Follow an unlikely group of musicians in Kinshasa, capital of the war- torn Democratic Republic of Congo, from the streets to the world's stages. The band, Staff Benda Bilili, is a group of street musicians composed of four paraplegics and three able-bodied men. The core of the group is four singer/ guitarists who use customized tricycles to get around. French film directors Florent de la Tullaye and Renaud Barret document the band's struggles to survive through music in the volatile city
ML421.S73 B46 2012.
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Sing your song [videorecording] / Michael Cohl presents ; Belafonte Enterprises and S2BN Entertainment in association with Julius R. Nasso Productions ; a film by Susanne Rostock ; produced by Michael Cohl ... [et al.].
[United States] : Docurama Films : Distributed by New Video, [2012].
Told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache, Susanne Rostock's inspiring biographical documentary surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer and his experiences touring a segregated country to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte's groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement
ML420.B32 S56 2012.
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Inocente [videorecording] / Shine Global presents ; MTV ; a Salty Features, Unison Films, Fine Films production in association with Epix Screen Pass Pictures, Golden Glove Productions ; directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine ; produced by Yael Melamede, Albie Hecht, Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine, Emanuel Michael.
New York, NY : Cinema Guild, c2012.
Documents the inspirational life of developing artist Inocente Izucar, a homeless, undocumented fifteen-year old girl in San Diego, and the extraordinary challenges she must contend with on a daily basis
N6538.H58 .I56 2012.
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Ai Weiwei [videorecording] : never sorry / Sundance Selects & United Expression Media present in association with Muse Film & Television a Never Sorry production ; produced by Alison Klayman, Adam Schlesinger ; directed by Alison Klayman.
[United States] : MPI Media Group ; New York, NY : Sundance Selects, 2012.
This is a documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government. Follows Ai "from the close of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (for which he helped design the acclaimed 'Bird's Nest' stadium) to his arrest and 81-day detention in 2011" (container)
N7349.A5 A4 2012.
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Brace up! [videorecording] / The Wooster Group ; director, Elizabeth LeCompte.
[New York, NY] : The Wooster Group, [2009].
The Wooster Group re-imagines Chekhov's Three Sisters through an assemblage made from three performances in April, 2003. In this filmed performance, the setting incorporates close-up recordings of the performers with continuous wide-angle footage, while simultaneously those same performers are in the background
PG3456.T8 S352 2003B.
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The intouchables [videorecording] / the Weinstein Company presents ; a Quad Gaumont, TF1 Films production, Ten Films, Chaocorp coproduction ; produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun ; written and directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2013.
Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common
PN1997.2 .I577 2011B.
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Won't back down (Motion picture). TITLE = Won't back down [videorecording] / Walden Media presents a Gran Via Production ; produced by Mark Johnson ; written by Brin Hill and Daniel Barnz ; directed by, Daniel Barnz.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2013], c2012.
Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school
PN1997.2 .W668 2012.
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High noon (Motion picture). TITLE = High noon [videorecording] / Stanley Kramer Productions presents a United Artists release ; screenplay by Carl Foreman ; directed by Fred Zinnemann.
[St. Charles, Ill.] : Olive Films, 2012.
Just-married lawman Will Kane is about to retire as a small-town sheriff and begin a new life with his bride when he learns that gunslinger Frank Miller is due to arrive at high noon to settle an old score. Kane seeks assistance from deputies and townsfolk but soon realizes he'll have to stand alone in his showdown with Miller and his henchmen
PN1997.2 .H54 2012.
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The well digger's daughter [videorecording] / Kino Lorber ; director, Daniel Auteuil.
[United States] : Mongrel Media, 2012.
Pascal, a well-digger and widower, lives with his six daughters in the Provence countryside during World War I. Pascal dreams of marrying his daughter off to his loyal assistant, but his dream is dashed when she is impregnated by a wealthy young pilot who abandons her for the war front
PN1997.2 .W45 2012.
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Invasion of the body snatchers (Motion picture : 1956). TITLE = Walter Wanger's invasion of the body snatchers [videorecording] / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents ; screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring ; produced by Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc. ; directed by Don Siegel.
[Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount Home Entertainment ; [St. Charles, Ill.] : Olive Films [distributor], c2012.
Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying race, for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people
PN1997 .I58 2012.
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Flight [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents ; directed by Robert Zemeckis ; written by John Gatins ; produced by Walter F. Parkes ... [et al.] ; an ImageMovers production ; a Parkes + MacDonald Image Nation production.
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, c2013.
A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid- air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane
PN1997.2 .F588 2012.
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Alpeis [videorecording] = Alps / a Haos Film production ; in co- production with Ert Faliro House Productions, Feelgood Entertainment ... [et al.] ; with the support of the Greek Film Centre & the Media Programme of the European Union ; produced by Athina Rachel Tsangari & Yorgos Lanthimos ; written by Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou ; directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
New York, NY : Kino Lorber ; [Keoln] : The Match Factory, 2012.
"An oddball group of four people (made up of two hospital employees, a gymnast, and her coach) form a secret society that sets out to ease the grieving process for those whose loved ones have died. For a fee they will act the part of the missing family member -- learning their hobbies and eccentricities -- in order to help the customer accept their loss. As methadone is to heroin addiction, so are the Alps, as they call themselves, to the mourning process. But when the nurse known as Monte Rosa begins to attach too deeply to her subjects, their project spirals out of control into violence and confusion."-- Container
PN1997.2 .A47457 2012.
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The ballad of Narayama [videorecording] / director, Keisuke Kinoshita.
[United States] : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2013].
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife
PN1997 .B35 2013.
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A late quartet [videorecording] / Entertainment One and RKO Pictures present ; an Opening Night Productions production in association with Concept Entertainment, Spring Pictures and Unison Films ; producers, Vanessa Coifman ... [et al.] ; produced by Tamar Sela, Yaron Zilberman ; screenplay by Yaron Zilberman and Seth Grossman ; directed by Yaron Zilberman.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2013].
Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of illlness, retirement, competing egos, and lust
PN1997.2 .L38 2012B.
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The loneliest planet [videorecording] / director, Julie Loktev.
[United States] : IFC Films : MPI Home Video, [2013].
An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves
PN1997.2 .L656 2011B.
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Ovsianki [videorecording] = Silent souls / Igor Mishin presents ; a film by Aleksei Fedorchenko.
[United States] : Zeitgeist Films ; Waterville, Maine : Shadow Distribution, 2013.
A widower and his friend transport his wife's remains across west-central Russia to comply with the rituals of her Merya tribe. Along the way, he fills the hours relating the intimate details of his marriage
PN1997.2 .O948 2010B.
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The sessions [videorecording].
[United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2013].
Paralyzed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien has overcome adversity time and time again. But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist, a sympathetic priest, and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humor, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous pleasures that make life worth living
PN1997.2 .S47 2013.
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Pioneers of television (Television program). TITLE = Pioneers of television [videorecording] / a film by Steven J. Boettcher, Michael J. Trinklein ; produced by Boettcher/Trinklein, Inc. ; director/producer, Steven J. Boettcher ; writer/producer, Michael J. Trinklein.
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2008.
This four-part series features archival clips to offer a fresh take on the first celebrities of television, including interviews with several of them
PN1992.3.U5 P56 2008.
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Hipsters [videorecording] / writers, Yuriy Korotkov, Valeriy Todorovskiy ; director, Valeriy Todorovskiy.
[United States] : Kino Lorber, 2013.
While the Cold War heats up on the world stage, rebellious youth in 1955 Moscow wage a cultural battle against dismal Soviet conformity, donning brightly colored black-market clothing, adopting American nicknames and reveling in forbidden jazz
PN1997.2 .H57 2013.
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Pioneers of television (Television program). Season 2. TITLE = Pioneers of television. Season 2 [videorecording] / PBS ; produced by Botticher/Trinklein Television Inc.
[United States] : PBS Distribution, [2011].
Each episode melds interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on televisions founding celebrities. Season two profiles science fiction, crime dramas, kids' shows, and westerns. The Science fiction episode features clips from The twilight zone, Lost in space, Star trek, The lieutenant and Time tunnel. The Western episode features clips from Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The rifleman, The big valley, Daniel Boone, The wild wild west, Maverick, Support your local sheriff, Lady of burlesque, and High chaparral. The Crime dramas episode features clips from Columbo, Dragnet, Freedom highway, Hawaii five-o, I spy, Mannix, Mission impossible, Police woman, Rockford files, Sunset range, Unsolved and Untouchables. The Local kids' TV episode features clips from Wallace and Ladmo show, Bozo's circus, Garfield Goose and friends, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids, Muppet commercials, Sam and friends, Time for Beany, Chuck McCann show, Children's corner, Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, Whizzo the clown, Axel and his dog, Terry tell time, Porky Pig, Romper room and Sesame Street
PN1992.75 .P56 2011.
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A raisin in the sun [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; screenplay writer, Lorraine Hansberry ; director, Daniel Petrie.
[Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1999].
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations
PN1997 .R159 1999.
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Skyfall [videorecording].
[United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, 2013.
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust - Bond. 007 aided only by field agent Eve, follows a trail that leads to Silva, whose motives have yet to reveal themselves
PN1997.2 .S59 2013.
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Beasts of the southern wild [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; in association with Cinereach ; a Cinereach and Court 13 production ; in association with Journeyman Pictures ; produced by Dan Janvey, Michael Gottwald, & Josh Penn ; screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin ; directed by Benh Zeitlin.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2012.
Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day
PN1997.2 .B43 2012.
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Lina Wertmüller collection [videorecording].
New York : Kino Classics, c2012.
Seduction of Mimi: Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, refuses to vote for the Mafia's candidate and consequently loses his job, his wife, and his home. He revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor--an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences. NOTE = Love and anarchy: Love and Anarchy plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Tunin, a freckle-faced innocent became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salome, a prostitute with her own sob story. While they prepare for the assassination, Tunin falls in love with Tripolina, which threatens the entire operation. NOTE = All screwed up: Gigi and Carletto, two southern country boys, travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live in a communal home with other migrant workers, including some combative love interests. Their dreams of wealth devolve into a series of slapstick adventures, from an uproarious attempt at petty crime to the daily indignities of life in a restaurant kitchen
PN1998.3.W48 L563 2012.
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Four films [videorecording] / [director], Luchino Visconti.
Port Washington, NY : Entertainment One Films USA, c2012.
This four film collection includes two of Visconti's greatest films from his early neorealist period, La Terra Trema (1948) and Bellissima (1951), and two of his most celebrated epics from his later career, Ludwig (1972) and L'innocente (1976)
PN1998.3.V57 F685 2012.
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A simple life [videorecording] / Bona Entertainment Co. Ltd., Focus Films Ltd., Sil-Metrople Organisation Ltd. present ; produced by Chan Pui Wah ; screenplay by Susan Chan ; produced, screenplay and directed by Roger Lee.
[United States] : Well Go USA, 2012.
Roger is a successful movie producer. Ah Tao has worked for Roger's family as a nanny and maid over the course of four generations. When Roger comes home to find Ah Tao's suffered a severe stroke and she is unable to care for herself, he agrees to help her relocate to a nursing home. He wants to help, but fears he'll fail her. She needs his kindness, but doesn't want to be a burden. As their roles reverse, he becomes her caregiver, and comes to understand how much she means to him
PN1997.2 .S558 2011B.
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Jian guo da ye [videorecording] = The founding of a republic / Zhongguo dian ying ji tuan gong si ling xian chu pin fa xing ; Dian ying pin dao jie mu zhong xin ... [et al.] lian he chu pin she zhi ; bian ju Wang Xingdong, Chen Baoguang ; [zong] dao yan Han Sanping, Huang Jianxin.
[London, England] : Metrodome Distribution, 2010.
Historical drama follows Mao and the Communist Party as they win a civil war, secure control of China, and send Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the rival National Party, to exile in Taiwan
PN1997.2 .J5123 2009B.
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Seven pounds [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media an Overbrook Entertainment production, an Escape Artists production ; produced by Todd Black ... [et al.] ; written by Grant Nieporte ; directed by Gabriele Muccino.
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2009.
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give "pounds of flesh" that will give new life to 7 deserving individuals to make up for the 7 lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself and to bestow gifts to 7 worthy people, which includes body organs and material possessions. He personally investigates 7 people to verify that they are indeed the right people he should help and plans to have his best friend see that his wishes are carried out after he is dead. When he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help, his plan threatens to unravel
PN1997.2 .S48 2009.
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Down Argentine way [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; screen play by Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg ; music and lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren ; dances staged by Nicholas Castle and Geneva Sawyer ; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck ; directed by Irving Cummings.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006].
Musical romance about Glenda, a rich New Yorker who collects fine horses and Ricardo, an Argentine rancher renowned for his prize jumpers. Their families have been feuding for years so they have to conduct a Romeo and Juliet romance
PN1997 .D696 2006.
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Honolulu [videorecording]/ a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presentation ; original story and screenplay by Herbert Fields and Frank Partos ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Edward Buzzell.
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2011].
Handsome movie heartthrob Brooks Mason is tired of being besieged by adoring fans. When he meets his exact double, a shy Hawaiian plantation owner named George Smith, they decide to switch for a month. Mason sails to Hawaii, falls in love with a beautiful dancer. Smith is sent to a New York hospital, thanks to overzealous fans
PN1997 .H66 2011.
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Sound of music (Motion picture). TITLE = Rodgers and Hammerstein's The sound of music [videorecording] / Argyle Enterprises ; Twentieth Century Fox ; produced and directed by Robert Wise ; written by Ernest Lehman.
Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2010].
As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children
PN1997 .S58 1965B.
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Ziegfeld follies (Motion picture). TITLE = Ziegfeld follies [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Arthur Freed ; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006].
A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show. A who's who of credited and uncredited Hollywood talents
PN1997 .Z544 2006.
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Esther Williams [videorecording]. Vol. 1.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2007.
"America's mermaid" Esther Williams stars as a teacher at a women's college, a woman accused of being a marriage-breaker, a star shooting a film in the tropics, a woman in love with the captain of the South American polo team, and a woman who swims the English Channel and meets a handsome Frenchman
PN1998.3.W5657 E88 2007.
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Fritz Lang, the early works [videorecording] / Fritz Lang.
New York : Kino Classics, 2012.
An adaptation of Madame Butterfly, Harakiri indulged Lang's fascination with Asian culture and Orientalist design. The wandering shadow was the first collaboration of Lang and Thea von Harbou, following a woman who in the wake of a sex scandal seeks solitude in the Bavarian Alps. Four around the woman involves a society woman who must navigate through a complex web of criminal and emotional intrigues
PN1998.3.L36 A25 2012.
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The Chicago 8 [videorecording] / director and writer, Pinchas Perry.
[United States] : Passion River Films, [2013].
The true story of the explosive trial that resulted, when seven leaders of the Vietnam antiwar movement, along with the Chairman of the Black Panthers, were charged with conspiracy to incite the devastating riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It is one of the highest profile criminal court cases in US history
PN1997.2 .C45 2013.
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Breathing [videorecording] / An EPO production ; produced by Dieter Pochlatko, Nikolaus Wisiak ; written and directed by Karl Markovics.
New York, N.Y. : Manufactured and distributed by Kino Lorber, [2013].
Portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and starts to come to terms with his own youthful crime
PN1997.2 .B74 2013.
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The story of film : an odyssey [videorecording] / Hopscotch Films ; director, Mark Cousins.
[Chicago, Ill.] : Music Box Films, c2012.
Covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times and by each other, providing a worldwide tour of the greatest movies ever made
PN1993.5.A1 S76 2012.
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Les 7 paroles de Robert Lepage [videorecording] = The 7 faces of Robert Lepage / Cinéma 3180 B.E. présente ; une réalisation de Michel Duchesne ; réalisation et entrevues, Michel Duchesne ; producteur, Michel Préfontaine ; Cinéma 3180 B.E. inc. ; Télé-Québec.
South Fremantle, Australia : Contemporary Arts Media, [200-?].
Robert Lepage, an innovative director and playwright who sees a written play as something to be modified freely by actors and directors together, discusses how he works with actors and other members of his troupe. Actors rehearsing his play The seven streams of the River Otha share their impressions of how their work has evolved. Throughout, footage of Lepage's plays illustrates and complements the interviews
PN2308.L46 A23 1997B.
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The war you don't see [videorecording] / a Dartmouth Films production ; Strand Films ; a film by John Pilger ; directed, produced & written by John Pilger ; director & producer, Alan Lowery.
Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2010.
Traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. Lays out the often willing collusion of journalists with governments' use of spin to justify war
PN4784.W37 W3859 2010.
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Henry VIII [videorecording] / Shakespeare's Globe presents ; producers, Conrad Lynch, Lotte Buchan ; stage director, Mark Rosenblatt ; screen director, Robin Lough.
West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c2010.
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Boleyn, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome
PR2817 .A23 2010.
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The Brig [videorecording] / a film by Jonas Mekas and Adolfas Mekus ; stage play written by Kenneth H. Brown ; stage production by Julian Beck and Judith Malina ; film produced by David C. Stone.
[Paris, France] : Potemkine Films : agnès b : Re:Voir, 2012.
Mekas filmed this play about a Marine Corps prison on the stage of the Living Theatre after it had been closed down by the police for tax evasion. He and the cast slipped into the theater through a coal chute and made the film in five hours. The furious rhythms of the play convey the inhumanity of military discipline with the raw force of a battle document
PS3552.R69 B73 1964.
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Mädchen in Uniform [videorecording] / Drehbuch, Christa Winsloe und F.D. Andam ; Regie, Leontine Sagan.
Germany : Germanwarfilms.com, [c200-?].
Living in the prison-like confines of a Prussian boarding school for the daughters of army officers, a young girl finds herself choked by the institution's strict regimentation and rigid discipline. Under the unbending rule of a matriarchal staff, she falls in love with the school's only caring teacher. When the principal finds out about the affair, she is isolated from the rest of the students and attempts suicide
PT2647.I67 G42 1931B.
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Climate of doubt [videorecording] / written by Catherine Upin and John Hockenberry ; produced and directed by Catherine Upin ; A FRONTLINE production with the Documentary Group.
[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2013], c2012.
Four years ago, climate change was hot. Politicians from both parties, pressed by an anxious public, seemed poised to act. But that was then. Today, public opinion about the climate issue has cooled, and politicians either ignore the issue or loudly proclaim their skepticism of scientific evidence that human activity is imperiling the planet. What's behind this reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate debate
QC903 .C55 2013.
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Pistés par nos gênes. English. TITLE = Tracked down by our genes [videorecording] / shot and directed by Philippe Borrel ; written by Philippe Borrel and Gilbert Charles ; produced by Dissidents, Pascal Dupont, Amalric de Poncharra ; with the participation of France 5, Centre National de la Cinématographie ; and the collaboration of RTBF ... [et al.].
Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, [2007?].
Explores the ethical and legal issues generated by the genomic revolution, sparked by the Human Genome Project, including possible dangers such as racial profiling, government control, and genetic discrimination
QH438.7 .P5713 2007B.
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Rachel Carson's Silent spring [videorecording] / writer and producer, Neil Goodwin ; a Peace River Films production for the American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation, WNET/Thirteen and Peace River Films.
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, [2007].
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy
QH545.P4 R23 2007.
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Project Nim [videorecording] / Roadside Attractions ; HBO Documentary Films, BBC Films and UK Film Council presents a Red Box Films production in association with Passion Pictures ; directed by James Marsh ; produced by Simon Chinn.
Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2012].
The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. But as Nim's natural instincts take over and the humans trusted with his well-being fail to protect him, Project Nim uncovers the unflinching and extraordinary journey of one animal thrust into human society
QL737.P96 P76 2012.
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Guatemala, syphilis laboratory [videorecording] / Journeyman Pictures.
[London] : Journeyman Pictures, 2011.
Investigates the repercussions of experiments by an American doctor, who deliberately infected Guatemalans with syphilis without their knowledge or consent and then watched the progress of the disease without providing treatment. Nearly seventy years later the victims, their descendants, and Guatemalan society are still suffering
R853.H8 G83 2011B.
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Semper fi [videorecording] : always faithful / Bullfrog Films presents ; Wider Film Projects presents in association with Chicken & Egg Pictures ; a Tied to the Tracks Films production ; a film by Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon ; Wider Film Projects ; directed and produced by Rachel Libert, Tony Hardmon ; produced by Jedd Wider, Todd Wider.
[Cambridge, MA] : Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. ; Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2011].
"Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he struggled for years to make sense of what happened. His search for answers led to a shocking discovery of Marine Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. Semper Fi: Always Faithful follows Jerry's mission to expose the Marine Corps and force them to live up to their motto to the thousands of soldiers and their families exposed to toxic chemicals. His fight reveals a grave injustice at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune and a looming environmental crisis at military sites across the country"--DVD jacket
RA592.N8 S46 2011.
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How does it feel [videorecording] / National Film Board of Canada ; written and directed by Lawrence Jackman ; produced by Annette Clarke.
[Montréal] : National Film Board of Canada, c2011.
Explores the life and music of Kazumi Tsuruoka, a Japanese Canadian who uses singing to overcome speech issues brought on by his cerebral palsy
RC388 .H69 2011.
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Last call at the oasis [videorecording] / ATO Pictures and Participant Media present ; a film by Jessica Yu ; produced by Elise Pearlstein ; produced, written, and directed by Jessica Yu.
[S.l.] : Docuramafilms : New Video Group, c2012.
Water. It's the earth's most valuable resource. Our cities are powered by it, countless industries depend on it, and all living things need it to survive. But it's very possible that in the near future, there won't be enough to sustain life on our planet. This film sheds light on the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system, and shows communities already struggling with its ill effects
TD313.5 .L37 2012.
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