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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
4) Raging bull
Description
This searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Program 3. After the Civil War the modern American novel took shape ... It was led by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain and Henry James. It was also the time that the American literary voice came from everyone and from everywhere.
Program 4. During this time frame America lost its innocence. Its writers now began to struggle with the problems that accompanied modernization and industrialization. It was also the beginning of the lost generation of American...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Program 5. This was the most turbulent period in American history, a time of extremes: the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. As the 20's came to a dreadful close and the country struggled through the 30's, America's greatest collection of writers, known collectively as "the lost generation," set a new standard for American literature.
Program 6. Through the dark years of WWII and in its aftermath, America entered the technological age. The...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 minutes) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like pays tribute to the beloved Fred Rogers and the nearly 900 episodes of the landmark children's television program first seen in 1968 on PBS. Still broadcast on PBS stations around the country, the iconic series continues to resonate with children and adults alike. In this 60-minute retrospective hosted by award-winning actor Michael Keaton, enjoy memorable segments including visits with Koko the Gorilla and Margaret...
8) Jazz
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (ca. 19 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of he Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Balck Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all.
Series
Approaches to translation studies volume 33
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations
Description
This volume aims to take the pulse of the changes taking place in the thriving field of Audiovisual Translation and to offer new insights into both theoretical and practical issues. Academics and practitioners of proven international reputation are given.
12) American beauty
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet.
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Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
13) Forrest Gump
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (783 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield₂s residents and guards.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Orphaned as a child and adopted by a police officer, Dexter has an insatiable passion for killing. So his father helps him channel this passion into becoming a cop and killing those who slip through the cracks of justice. Includes 12 episodes.
16) The Commitments
Series
Barrytown trilogy volume 1
Description
"Jimmy Rabbitte knows he's the world's greatest band manager ... Now he just needs a band. Auditioning everyone he can find, Jimmy gathers ten of the most talented, least experienced musicians from the rough streets of working class Dublin, Ireland ... with a plan to launch the best soul band ever to take the stage."--Container.
17) The accused
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What are the limits of justice? Of social responsibility? THE ACCUSED takes a powerful and thought-provoking look at human nature and individual moral conscience, and a judicial process that treats the victim like a criminal. Jodie Foster gives an **Oscar**-winning performance as the hard-living fiercely independent Sarah Tobias, who is gang-raped in the back of a neighborhood bar. But that is only the beginning of her ordeal. Now Sarah finds herself...
18) Baseball
Description
It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.




