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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
3) Hombre
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
Description
In April 1994, one of the most heinous genocides in world history began in the African nation of Rwanda. For 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen. This harrowing HBO Films drama focuses on the almost indescribable human atrocities that took place a decade ago through the story of two Hutu brothers, one in the military, one a radio personality, whose relationship...
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Floods can cause enormous devastation that has lasting social, psychological, economic and environmental impacts on a community. Flooding can also be a seasonal weather event that helps sustain life across many ecosystems. In this interview led program we look at the causes and consequences of the 2005 flood event in Carlisle, UK, the 2011 flood event in Queensland, Australia, the impact of climate change and flood management and mitigation alternatives....
6) The violin
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He...
7) Muslims
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Looks at what it means to be a Muslim in the 21st century. Filmed in Egypt, Malaysia, Iran, Turkey, Nigeria and the United States, this program explores the influence of culture and politics on religion, looks at the political forces at work among Muslims around the world, emphasizes Islam's kinship with Christianity and Judaism, and examines the diverse interpretations of Islam among the Muslim people.
8) Raging bull
Description
This searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
Pub. Date
[2002], c1947.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-G.I Rip Murdock tries to find out who framed his pal Johnny and then killed him. While tracking his war buddy's shadowy past, Rip becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his friend's sweetheart.
10) Jazz
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Formats
Description
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
11) Time regained
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Internationally acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz directs "Time regained", the most successful and ambitious film adaptation to date of the writings of Marcel Proust. Based upon the last volume of his masterwork "Rememberance of things past", widely regarded as the greatest literary work of the 20th century, the film features stunning cinematography and a star studded cast. Brilliantly recreating the timelessness of Proust's work, Ruiz blends...
Formats
Description
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like pays tribute to the beloved Fred Rogers and the nearly 900 episodes of the landmark children's television program first seen in 1968 on PBS. Still broadcast on PBS stations around the country, the iconic series continues to resonate with children and adults alike. In this 60-minute retrospective hosted by award-winning actor Michael Keaton, enjoy memorable segments including visits with Koko the Gorilla and Margaret...
13) The bravados
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An expert tracker and gunman is anxious to see justice exacted upon four violent men whom he believes raped and murdered his wife.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (60 min.)
Description
"This video focuses on the critical first session with clients with disabilities. Three vignettes with different therapists and three clients with disabilities are used to illustrate Disability-Affirmative Therapy (wheelchair user with speech involvement in her cerebral palsy, blind female, ambulatory but significant physical disability). Dr. Rhoda Olkin discusses each case, and gives highlights of what went right (or wrong) in each instance. A teacher's...
15) Marty
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
34- year old Bronx butcher Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine) remains as shy and uncomfortable around women today as on the day he was born. So when he meets Clara (Betsy Blair), a lonely schoolteacher, Marty's on top of the world. But when his friends and family continually find fault with Clara, even Marty begins to question his newfound love - until he discovers the courage to follow his heart. Winner of 4 Academy Awards® including Best Picture,...
16) The corporation
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. 1 pamphlet.
Description
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the Corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The Corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy...
17) American beauty
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet.
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Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
18) Summer of love
Series
Formats
Description
A look into the hippie revolution of San Francisco during the '60s, and how the free love and music turned into a life of drug use, violence, and broken dreams.
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"This program shows how we came to understand that our planet is not the center of everything but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding cosmos. Viewers discover the critical contributions of medieval astrologers and Renaissance thinkers as well as those of everyday craftsmen in the development of astronomy. The film also describes what drove Galileo to perfect his telescope and, in so doing, upend Church-dominated visions of the universe."--Container....
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.


