Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: An abbreviated television adaptation of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional turmoil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRESummary: Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLASummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLAlbert, Edoardo
Summary: In 604 AD, Edwin, the deposed king of Northumbria, seeks refuge at the court of King Raedwald of East Anglia. But Raedwald is urged to kill his guest by Aethelfrith, Edwin's usurper. As Edwin walks by the shore, alone and at bay, he is confronted by a mysterious figure--the missionary Paulinus--who prophesies that he will ascend to greater heights than any of his forefathers. Through battles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Calvert, Howard
Summary: "Barbara Hendricks, a tortoise, has entered a road race, but what was she thinking? With only a week to go before the big day, she worries that she doesn't stand a chance against the other animals competing. Barbara's friend and owner, Lorraine, inspires her to train a little bit more each day and coaxes her out of her shell when the race day arrives. How intimidating to line up next to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023