Summary: Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ENL

Summary: Ken Burns presents and follows the transformation of a single struggling, impoverished Atlanta neighborhood over several years as community members apply a radical holistic revitalization program to improve the lives of every resident.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EAS

Summary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAC

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAC

Summary: Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOV

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOV

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOV

Junker, Patricia A.

Summary: As counterpoint to all his other work, especially in the 1880s, they serve to underscore Homer's passion for and dedication to fly-fishing. Examines Homer's lifelong devotion to fishing as it related to his connection to the American landscape, and his extraordinary ability to evoke the atmosphere of pastoral locales. Over 180 color and b/w figures, plates and photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: 702 HOMER JUN

Summary: Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5" -- a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CEN
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CEN

Summary: Examines the life of Muhammad Ali in and out of the boxing ring, covering his ties with the Nation of Islam, his political postions, including his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, his role as a symbol of Black masculinity, and life after boxing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUH