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Publication Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As we age, it is so important to stay active, strong. and flexible. Toning and stretching the body promotes weight loss and also protects our bones, reduces joint stress. and increases brain function. Both upper- and lower-body workouts build lean, healthy, and supple muscles. And they are fun to do! Try these 20-minute workouts a few times a week and you'll be healthier and stronger and feel great!
Publication Date
©1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (271 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Topper: Cosmo Topper, a shy, stuffed-shirt banker, finds his life turned upside-down by two fun-loving ghosts who enter his world to bring some fun into his life for their needed "good deed". Topper takes a trip: Marian Kirby, one of the ghosts from Topper returns into his life so she can join her husband "up there" by helping the meek banker. Topper returns: Topper turns amateur detective as the ghost of a beautiful murdered girl enlists him to try...
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philo Beddoe, a regular easy-going, beer-drinking truck driver and the toughest barroom brawler west of the Rockies, lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. When he finally falls in love, it's with a flighty singer who leads him on a crazy chase across the Southwest.
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inherited from Maria Montessori in 1907, the Montessori Method is a child-centered educational approach celebrating and nurturing each child's desire to learn. It is an approach valuing the human spirit and full child development: physical, social, emotional, and cognitive. Curious to see how the Method works first hand, filmmaker Alexandre Mourot sets his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France (with kids from 3 to 6 years of age) and...
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The shocking truth behind the right-wing media machine that changed a father -- and the nation. Jen Senko looks at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her WWII vet father who changed from a life-long, nonpolitical Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of talk radio on his way to work one morning.
10) Sons of liberty
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 clash between the dedicated colonists and the superior...
Publication Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lamb to the slaughter: When Mrs. Maloney's philandering husband asks for a divorce, she'll do anything to keep him, but can she get away with murder? Case of Mr. Pelham: Buttoned-down businessman Mr. Pelham hasn't been himself lately. Actually he's been more like two of himself. In a bizarre series of near misses, he draws closer to a riveting confrontation with ... himself. Banquo's chair: A murder suspect goes to a dinner party, unaware that a visit...
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes viewers back to the glory years of Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius. Opening the door to his studio, Balanchine's private laboratory, they reveal new facets of the groundbreaking choreographer: taskmaster, mad scientist, and spiritual teacher. Today, as his former dancers teach a new generation, questions arise: what was the secret of his teaching?...
14) Slay the dragon
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Gerrymandering has become an immensely powerful weapon of partisan advantage, creating an unresponsive and unaccountable government. But ahead of the 2020 elections and a new round of redistricting, voters are fighting back. With exclusive access to influential, citizen-led activist groups, as well as the legal team that brought the most important voting rights case in a generation to the Supreme Court, the film chronicles the civic grit that is turning...
15) Punch-Drunk Love
Series
Criterion collection volume 843
Formats
Description
Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affections of a mysterious woman named Lena. But their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss.
16) The band's visit
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Egyptian police band becomes stranded in a desolate Israeli village and the people discover that love, music, and life are universal.
17) Varian's war
Publication Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The story of Varian Fry, a forgotten hero of World War II. He constructed an elaborate underground rescue network saving some of the most influential figures of that era, including painter Marc Chagall. The safe arrival of these treasured individuals in the United States permanently changed the face of American culture and enriched our lives.
18) Skinwalkers
Publication Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Steel Magnolias is an American comedy-drama television film directed by Kenny Leon that premiered at Lifetime Network on October 7, 2012. It is the remake of 1989 film of the same name. The new film stars an all-African American cast.
Publication Date
©1998
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"France, 1792. It is the height of the French Revolution. The country is gripped by revolutionary fever and the evil Head of Secret Police, Chauvelin, keeps the guillotines busy executing innocent peasants, aristocrats and priests. Only the mysterious stranger known as the Scarlet Pimpernel constantly foils Chauvelin's plans with his heroic missions to save innocent lives"--Box.
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