Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Summary: "During the first half of the 1970s, several West German musicians excaped the traditional rock influences of British and American bands and created a new way of making rock music. This movement--which involved psychedelic, electronic, jazz, folk, and noise music--came to be known as Krautrock. The Krautrock bands that pioneered this movement created something never heard before: They took the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KRA

Summary: The location has brought over seven million fans, and the world's biggest musicians, to a patch of rural Washington farmland 150 miles from nowhere. Despite overwhelming odds, a small family winery, with a makeshift plywood stage, eventually became a Pollstar, Billboard, and ACM-winning music venue. It follows the stories of Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, and Pearl Jam (among many other artists),...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ENO

Summary: A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AMA

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AMA

Summary: In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. In this riveting and star studded documentary, Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, corporate-radio and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEW

Summary: "When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son hires Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them. This iconic tale of pride,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS DRI

Summary: French-born Michel Gondry is known for his visually groundbreaking imagery and re-interpretations of reality. A former drummer, his first collaboration with Björk for "Human Behaviour" (featuring Bjork as a hunter who eventually winds up inside a bear's stomach), helped revive what was then a dwindling music video industry, and went on to win nearly every music video award. A collection of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Train Productions 2003

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WOR

Summary: "Reset documents the creation of Benjamin Millepied's first ballet as Artistic Director of the Paris Opera Ballet, the oldest national ballet company in the world - and one of the most prestigious. The appointment of Millepied, best known for his choreography for the film Black Swan (2010), was an untraditional choice and his first ballet was eagerly anticipated. The film shows a work of love...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RES

Contents: Introduction: Star Spangled banner/A day in the life (underscore) -- Sugar mountain -- I am a child -- Comes a time -- After the gold rush -- Thrasher -- My my, hey hey (out of the blue) -- Stage announcements -- When you dance I can really love -- The loner -- Welfare mothers -- The needle and the damage done -- Lotta love -- Sedan delivery -- Powderfinger -- Cortez the killer -- Cinnamon girl...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Visual Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RUS

Summary: Compilation of music videos, clips of televised and non-televised performances, and live concert recordings by David Bowie, spanning the 1970s to the 1990s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records 2002

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BES

Contents: Disc 1. High voltage -- It's a long way to the top (If you wanna rock 'n' roll) -- School days -- T.N.T. -- Live wire -- Can I sit next to you girl -- Baby please don't go -- Hell ain't a bad place to be -- Rocker -- Rock 'n' roll damnation -- Dog eat dog -- Let there be rock -- Problem child -- sin city -- Bad boy boogie -- Highway to hell -- The jack -- Whole lotta Rosie -- Bonus features.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music 2007

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AC

Summary: A celebration of an artist's life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus is the swan song of one of the world's greatest musicians. As a parting gift, just months before his death in 2023, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and a piano, directed by his son, Neo Sora. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC RYU

Summary: Tells the rags-to-riches story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colors. A filmed performance of the staged musical.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS JOS

Summary: After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) pieced together a narrative of Gray's life to create the documentary And Everything is Going Fine. Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one-man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AND

Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AID

Summary: Andrew Dominik's One More Time with Feeling is a black-and-white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' album 'Skeleton Tree'. Originally a perfomance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Also features live performances by the band in the studio.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NIC

Summary: Presents the first-ever Prairie Home cinecast, shown in movie theaters across the United States and Canada. Guests include Elvis Costello, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, Heather Masse, Robin and Linda Williams, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Erica Rhodes, Tom Keith, Fred Newman, plus the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, episodes of "Guy Noir" and "Lives of the Cowboys," and the News from Lake Wobegon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2010

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS PRA

Summary: An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time, with over 90 million albums sold. Takes you inside the studio, the counseling sessions the band went through together and the difficult process of finding a new band member.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MET

Summary: "Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Tennesee's Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain's acclaimed Mumford & Sons hopped on a beautiful vintage train and set out across America on a 'tour of dreams.' With poignancy and beauty, Malloy documents these incredible musicians as they ride the rails and wow the crowds from Oakland to New Orleans"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: S2BN Films 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF BIG

Summary: A Saint Petersburg official wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared from his face and has assumed a life of its own, pretending to be human.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VAI 2010

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA NOS

Summary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOB

Mather, Craig

Summary: Follows the adventures of Ratty, Badger, and Mole as they are swept up in the impulsive Toad's insatiable need for speed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2021

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WIN