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Action and adventure films Adventure and adventurers Drama Closed caption video recordings Great Depression, 1929-1939 Fiction Historical films Kirk, James T. (Fictitious character) Drama Spock (Fictitious character) Drama Television adaptations United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Drama VideodiscsWinfield, Paul
Summary: Tells the story of an African American boy, his dog, and his family overcoming adversity in Depression-era Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUSummary: A former United States Air Force general and three other convicts escape from a military prison. The four men take over a nuclear base and proceed to hold America hostage, threatening to launch the base's missiles if they don't receive ten million dollars and if the president fails to release a top-secret document on the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWISummary: A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHISummary: [Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Huckleberry 2005Bosley, Tom
Summary: A collection of short stories which educate children on the ten commandments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV KIDSummary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005