Summary: The original unedited British version, this mini series alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova and the swan song of the world's most notorious lothario.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Home Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: A six-part BBC mini-series, filmed in Austria, New York and London. This series examines Freud's complex life, his groundbreaking work and his relationship with his patients. Special features include a newly filmed interview with David Suchet and a gallery of Suchet's personal Freud archive including production photos, press clippings, etc.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRESummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Cora, fleeing slavery, embarks on a treacherous quest for freedom and is menaced by violence, supported by a clandestine community fighting for liberation, and haunted by the people she loses along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV UNDSummary: Bringing to life the true story of how the people of Texas fought for freedom against the mighty Mexican military that had overtaken the Alamo. The legendary Texas Rangers assembled for the first time against General Santa Anna's massive military might. United under the leadership of Sam Houston and with the help of his ragtag army, they passionately battled for life and country and the Lone...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Relives the grand hopes, dreams, loves, and adventures of generations of residents in Centennial, Colorado-- from their risky attempts to establish a settlement in 1795 through the politics and power plays of the 20th century. Begins with French and Scottish trappers interacting with Native Americans and follows the increasing conflicts as more permanent settlers arrive. Shows how the town of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal City Studios, Inc. 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: As riots consume the streets of Boston, a dangerous game plays out between a British governor and ringleader Sam Adams, which escalates to extreme measures, street brawls, black market dealings, espionage, and murder. A sizzling, romantic affair percolates against a backdrop of rising civil unrest, the infamous Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere's legendary ride. From the Battle of Lexington, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoSummary: This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NORSummary: On the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward VIII formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. Follows the true story and the unforgettable romance that developed between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she was already married and rumored to have had other affairs,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EDWSummary: This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar®-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OFFSummary: A sweeping look at nearly five decades of global history, a crystallization of a massive, three-year-long effort helmed by award-winning documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Isaacs's team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and gathered archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COLSummary: Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUNSummary: Set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, he is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage. Risking his life, Mercier works in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SPISummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHESummary: A PBS miniseries in which a black jazz band becomes a huge success and ends up entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANSummary: Follow the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee, they navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss, and marriage. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this story is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USSummary: It explores the life of one of history's most fascinating figures, a cowboy, soldier, statesman, conservationist, adventurer, reformer, author, and finally, U.S. president. Featuring over five hours of expert interviews, rich archival material, and vivid live-action sequences, this two-part documentary charts Roosevelt's journey from his sickly childhood to being a champion for the working man...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THESummary: Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNTSummary: Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Shows how "Pug" and his family are drawn into the center of the conflicts that lead to America's involvement in World...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004