The Wild Wild West Season 2

April 13, 2015

The Wild Wild West Season 2

Call Number: DVD001330
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, ©2007.
Notes:  Originally broadcast on television 1966-1967
Summary: The wild, wild West takes you on death-defying, top secret assignments alongside the country’s best secret agents, under direct orders to protect the security of President Grant and the U.S. from all manner of threats
OCLC #: 85777837
Added: April 8th, 2015
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Susan B. Anthony

May 13, 2014

Susan B. Anthony

Call Number: DVD01176

Director/Distributor: by Monte Markham; Adam Friedman; Lee Fulkerson; Jon Wesslen; Peter Graves; Artur Rubinstein; Perpetual Motion Films.; Non Fiction Films Inc.; Arts and Entertainment Network.; A & E Home Video (Firm); New Video Group.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [New York, NY] : A & E Home Video : Distributed by New Video Group, [2005]

Notes: Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series Biography in 1995.

Summary: Looks at the life of Susan B. Anthony who fought for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. Combining archival photographs with dramatic recreations and interviews, shows how Anthony endured threats and ridicule for her efforts to reform unfair laws that governed women.

OCLC #: 61143302

Added: 5/13/14

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Summer’s Lease

Summer’s Lease

Call Number: DVD01172

Director/Distributor: by Martyn Friend; John Gielgud; Susan Fleetwood; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Acorn Media (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, ©2005, 1989.

Notes: Special features include: bios of John Gielgud and John Mortimer; cast filmographies.

Summary:

 
A family leases a Tuscan villa for vacation and becomes involved in finding the secrets of the owner.

OCLC #: 61395707 (Vol. 1), 61395776 (Vol. 2)

Added: 5/13/14

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Staying On

Staying On

Call Number: DVD01167

Director/Distributor: by Irene Shubik; Silvio Narizzano; Julian Mitchell; Trevor Howard; Celia Johnson; Saeed Jaffrey; Pearl Padamsee; Fida Bai; Z̤iyāʼ Muḥīuddīn; Ajit Saldanha; Habib Tanvir; Raj Bharti; Paul Scott; Granada Television.; HBO Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: New York, NY : HBO Video, [2003]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Adapted by Julian Mitchell from the novel by Paul Scott.

Summary: A British colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.

OCLC #: 52259706

Added: 5/13/14

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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series

Call Number: DVD01143

Director/Distributor: by Arthur Conan Doyle; Ronald Howard; Howard Marion-Crawford; Christopher Lee; Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Mill Creek Entertainment, ©2008.

Notes: Digitally remastered onto 3 extended DVDs
Includes 39 episodes.

Discs:

Disc 1:

The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
The Case of Lady Beryl
The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun
The Case of the Texas Cowgirl
The Case of the Belligerent Ghost
The Case of the Shy Ballerina
The Case of the Winthrop Legend
The Case of the Blind Man’s Bluff
The Case of Harry Croker
The Mother Hubbard Case
The Case of the Red Headed League
The Case of the Shoeless Engineer
The Case of the Split Ticket

Disc 2:

 The Case of the French Interpreter
The Case of the Singing Violin
The Case of the Greystone Inscription
The Case of the Laughing Mummy
The Case of the Thistle Killer
The Case of the Vanished Detective
The Case of the Careless Suffragette
The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter
The Case of the Deadly Prophecy
The Christmas Pudding
The Night Train Riddle
The Case of the Violent Suitor
The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids

Disc 3:

The Case of the Perfect Husband
The Case of the Jolly Hangman
The Case of the Impostor Mystery
The Case of the Eiffel Tower
The Case of the Exhumed Client
The Case of the Impromptu Performance
The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors
The Case of the Royal Murder
The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough
The Case of the Neurotic Detective
The Case of the Unlucky Gambler
The Case of the Diamond Tooth
The Case of the Tyrant’s Daughter

OCLC #: 276368481

Also: See more Sherlock Holmes on DVD00468, DVD00469, DVD00470, DVD00471, DVD00472, DVD00473, DVD00474, DVD00475, DVD01144

Added: 5/13/14

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Lorna Doone

May 9, 2014

Lorna Doone

Call Number: DVD01013

Director/Distributor: by Clive Owen; Polly Walker; Sean Bean; Billie Whitelaw;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Acorn Media, 2011.

Notes: DVD release of the 1990 motion picture.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Summary: John Ridd was just a boy when the villainous Carver Doone callously murdered his father. Now a young man, John has two driving passions: his thirst for revenge against the outlaw Doones, and his love for the beautiful Lorna, daughter of his sworn enemies.

OCLC #: 770614016

Added: 5/9/14

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King Arthur’s Britain

May 8, 2014

King Arthur’s Britain

Call Number: DVD00975

Director/Distributor: by Francis Pryor; Timothy Copestake; Channel Four (Great Britain); Acorn Media (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [London] : Channel Four Television Corp. ; [Silver Spring, Md.] : Acorn Media, [2005]

Summary:

 
Archaeologist Francis Pryor has made ancient history popular in books and television specials. In this three-part series, he uses the myth of the British icon- King Arthur- to explain new discoveries that dispute the traditional view of early Britain.

OCLC #: 61299231

Added: 5/8/14

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Crusade in the Pacific: Volume 2

April 25, 2014

Crusade in the Pacific: Volume 2

Call Number: DVD00752

Director/Distributor: by Westbrook Van Voorhis; Arthur Bernon Tourtellot; Fred Feldkamp; Digiview Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Digiview Entertainment, 2006

Notes: Originally broadcast on television in 1951-1952.

Guadalcanal: America’s First Offensive –War in the North: The Aleutians –The Road Back: New Guinea –Up to Solomons Ladders: Bougainville –Attack in the Central Pacific: Markin and Tarawa –The War at Sea.

Summary: Archival footage from both the Allies and Japan give detailed information of World War II showing both points of view from the Pacific Theater.

OCLC #: 187156479

Added: 4/25/14

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Crusade in the Pacific: Volume 1

 Crusade in the Pacific: Volume 1

Call Number: DVD00751

Director/Distributor: by Westbrook Van Voohis; Arthur Bernon Toutellot; Fred Feldkamp; Digiview Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:[Dunellen, NJ] : Digiview Entertainment, 2006.

Notes: Originally broadcast on television in 1951-1952.

Pacific in Eruption –Awakening in the Pacific –Rise of the Japanese Empire –America goes to War in the Pacific –U.S. and the Philippines –Navy holds-1942.

Summary: Archival footage from both the Allies and Japan give detailed information of World War II showing both points of view.

OCLC #: 186416284

Added: 4/25/14

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Civil War: The Ultimate Series

The Ultimate Civil War Series

Call Number: DVD00732

Director/Distributor: Dan Nance; Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: U.S.A. : Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012

Notes:  Disc 1 – Chapter 1: Sins of the Father–Chapter 2: A Deep, Steady Thunder –Chapter 3: Days of Infamy –Chapter 4: The Turning Point
Disc 2 – Chapter 5: Not War but Murder –Chapter 6: The Killing Fields –Chapter 7: New Birth of Freedom.

Summary: The documentary mini-series traces the causes, courses, major events and personalities of the American Civil War.

OCLC #: 808363045

Added: 4/25/14

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Napoleon

March 20, 2012
Napoleon
Call Number: DVD01063
by: Christian Clavier; Isabella Rossellini; Gérard Depardieu; John Malkovich; Jean-Pierre Guerin; Didier Decoin; Yves Simoneau; Alliance Atlantis in Association with France 2/RAI/Telecino/Kirchmedia/MA Films/ A & E Networks. [Remstar] ©2004.
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Alliance Atlantis in Association with France 2/RAI/Telecino/Kirchmedia/MA Films/ A & E Networks. [Remstar]  ©2004.
Notes: Originally released as a television mini-series in 2002. Disc 4 includes bonus material: Napoleon: Behind the scences; Napoleon and Wellington; Napoleon Bonaparte: The glory of France. Special features: behind the scenes featurette; bonus programs; cast biographies and filmographies; interactive menus; scene selections. Nominated for 7 Emmys in 2003 (4 discs 6 hours 4 min.).
Summary: Follow young Bonaparte’s ascent from a simple Corsican soldier to the most powerful man on earth, and go beyond the battlefield to examine the political intrigues, personal struggles, and complicated romances that mark Napoleon’s rise and fall.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 20, 2012
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Iron Jawed Angels

March 16, 2012
Iron Jawed Angels
Call Number: VHS01703
by: Katja von Garnier; Sally Robinson; Eugenia Bostwick Singer; Raymond Singer; Jennifer Friedes; Hilary Swank; Frances O’Connor; Julia Ormond; Anjelica Huston; HBO Films.; Spring Creek Productions.; HBO Studio Productions.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  New York : HBO Studio Productions, ©2004.
Notes: 123 min.
Summary: Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and the women of the 1918 Womens Suffrage movement fight for future generations right to vote and run for office. Sacrificing their health, marriages and the limited amount of freedom they had, women were imprisoned and force fed after picketing and hunger-striking against war-time president, Woodrow Wilson; but survived to see the results of their efforts.
OCLC #: 55118834
Added: March 16, 2012
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Greatest Mysteries

February 14, 2012
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Greatest Mysteries
Call Number: DVD0000473
by: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir; Ronald Howard; Howard Marion-Crawford; Arthur Wontner; Basil Rathbone; Reginald Owen; Christopher Lee; Mill Creek Entertainment.
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Minneapolis, MN] : Mill Creek Entertainment, 2009.
Notes: Originally broadcast on television from 1954-1955. Includes 39 episodes of the 1954 television show, The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and eight feature films. Discs 1-3 include introduction and closing comments by Christopher Lee.  5 videodiscs total running time 26 hrs.
Summary: Disc one: “Cunningham Heritage” –“Lady Beryl” –“Pennsylvania Gun” –“Texas Cowgirl” –“Belligerent Ghost” –“Shy Ballerina” –“Winthrop Legend” –“Blind Man’s Bluff” –“Harry Croker” –“Mother Hubbard” –“Red Headed League” –“Shoeless Engineer” –“Split Ticket”  Disc two: “French Interpreter” –“Singing Violin” –“Greystone Inscription” –“Laughing Mummy” –“Thistle Killer” –“Vanished Detective” –“Careless Suffragette” –“Reluctant Carpenter” –“Deadly Prophecy” –“Christmas Pudding” –“Night Train Riddle” –“Violent Suitor” –“Baker Street Nursemaids”. Disc. 3: “Perfect Husband” –“Jolly Hangman” –“Imposter Mystery” –“Eiffel Tower” –“Exhumed Client” –“Impromptu Performance” –“Baker Street Bachelors” –“Royal Murder” –“Haunted” –“Gainsborough” –“Neurotic Detective” –“Unlucky Gambler” –“Diamond Tooth” –“Tyrant’s Daughter”. Disc 4: “The Sign of Four” (1932) –“The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes” (1935) –“Murder at the Baskervilles” (1937) –“The Woman in Green” (1945). Disc 5: “A Study in Scarlet” (1933) –“Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon” (1943) –“Terror by Night” (1946) –“Dressed to Kill” (1946).
OCLC #:496285981
Added: February 14, 2012
Notes: Episodes also available on DVD00468, DVD00469 & DVD00470
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The Country Girl

November 30, 2011
The Country Girl
Call Number: VHS01571
by: Clifford Odets; Faye Dunaway; Dick Van Dyke; Ken Howard; Group W Cable Productions, Inc.; Thorn EMI Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Thorn EMI Video, 1982.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1982 made for TV movie by Group W Cable Productions, Inc.” (137 min.) Based on the play by the same title by Clifford Odets.  
Summary: This is the story of three sensitive people caught in a painful tangle: Van Dyke is the aging, alcoholic star, desperate for a chance at a comeback; Howard is the brash, insolent young director, who believe’s that the actor’s wife is responsible for his downfall; and Faye Dunaway’s luminous presence carries off the day as the wife whose love for her husband might destroy him.
OCLC #: 9283846
Added: November 30, 2011
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Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
Call Number: VHS01570A
by: John Ford; Ronald Reagan; Lowell Thomas; Perry Wolff; Frank Capra; United States. War Dept.; United States. Army Air Forces. Motion Picture Unit.; Madacy Entertainment Group.; IRJA Films.; United States. Army Pictorial Service.; United States Navy.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Madacy Entertainment, 2001.
Notes: Originally released the single documentary “Kamikaze” (76 min.) in 2001. This videocassette release also contains: “Know your enemy: Japan” by Frank Capra (62 min.); “Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941” directed by John Ford (33 min.); “Now it can be told” (8 min.); “Formal Japanese surrender” (9 min.); “Recognition of the Japanese Zero fighter” (20 min.); “Appointment in Tokyo” (55 min.); “Japan’s air war” (24 min.) Total running time is approximately 5 hrs. 
Summary: “Kamikaze”: A documentary on the Pacific War beginning with Japanese preparations before the attack on Pearl Harbor and ending with the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. “Know your enemy”: A Frank Capra propaganda film that was used to give the American soldier a look into the mentality of the Japanese enemy. “Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941”: A classic recreation of the Pearl Harbor bombing combined with actual footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. “Now it can be told”: A newsreel special report of the Pearl Harbor attack. “Formal Japanese surrender”: Newsreel footage of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. “Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter”: An Air Force training film that dramatizes how to identify the Japanese Zero fighter plane and the American P-40 plane. “Appointment in Tokyo”: A documentary covering the entire American Pacific campaign under the leadership of General MacArthur from the Bataan retreat to the surrender of Japan. Some scenes were taken from captured official Japanese newsreels. “Japan’s air war”: From the Asian mainland and newly liberated Pacific islands, American airborne firepower hammers at Japan itself. Film sequences include bombing missions, aerial dogfights and scenes of the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
OCLC #: 43314199
Added: November 30, 2011
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Lincoln / The Colt

November 9, 2011
Double Feature: Lincoln / The Colt
Call Number: DVD00804
by:  Mary Tyler Moore; Sam Waterston; Richard Mulligan; Ernest Kinoy; Lamont Johnson; Gore Vidal; Ryan Merriman; Steve Bacic; Darcy Belsher; Scott Heindl; Matthew O’Connor; Yelena Lanskaya; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov; Hallmark Entertainment (Firm); Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, ©2009.
Notes: Double Feature – “Lincoln” (188 mins.) originally produced for television broadcast in 1988, based on the book of the same name by Gore Vidal. Nominated for six Emmy Awards in 1989.
“The Colt” (83 mins.) originally produced in 2004, based on the short story of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. Summary: “Lincoln” : Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
“The Colt”: A newborn colt joins the First Michigan Cavalry’s march into war as both an omen of good fortune and a reminder that some creatures are blessedly innocent to the careless ways of man.
OCLC #: 476741979
Added: November 9, 2011
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The Three Stooges – Vagabond Loafers

November 2, 2011
The Three Stooges
Call Number: VHS01533
by: Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Shemp Howard; Christine McIntyre; Herbert Evans; Ben Welden; Hugh McCollum; Edward Bernds; Elwood Ullman; Jules White; Felix Adler; Fayte Browne; Henry Freulich; Three Stooges (Comedy team); Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1996.
Notes: Three comedic shorts originally released 1949-1952. Running time 48 mins.
Summary: “Vagabond Loafers” (1949): the Stooges unleash a flood of laughter as plumbers hired to fix the leaky pipes during a pompous high society party.
 “The Pest Man Wins” (1951): Larry, Moe and Shemp are shady exterminators who wreak havock on a society matron’s lavish dessert party.
“Three Dark Horses” (1952) the Stooges are delegates to the Presidential convention and get involved with crooked politics.
OCLC #: 36655367
Added: November 2, 2011
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The Three Stooges – I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

The Three Stooges
Call Number: VHS01532
by: Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Shemp Howard; Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1993.  
Notes: Three comedic shorts originally released in 1948. Running time 55 mins.
Summary: “I’m a Monkey’s Uncle” (1948): The Stooges play cavemen who must fight for their mates – Aggie, Maggie and Baggie.
“Mummy’s Dummies” (1948): The Stooges are Honest Moe, Honest Shemp, and just plain Larry – used chariot dealers who use their half-wits to get in favor with the king.
“Squareheads of the Round Table” (1948): Troubadour Stooges play Cupid by helping a lowly blacksmith unite with his true love – the daughter of King Arthur.
OCLC #: 123100625
Added: November 2, 2011
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The Three Stooges – Monkey Businessmen

The Three Stooges
Call Number: VHS01531
by: Three Stooges (Comedy team); Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, ©1993.
Notes: Three comedic shorts originally released 1942-1946. Running time 55 mins.
Summary: “Beer Barrel Polecats” (1946): Trouble brews when the Stooges decide to make their own beer.
“Three Smart Saps” (1942): It’s the Stooges to the rescue when they find out their sweetheart’s father, the local warden, has been imprisoned by a crooked administration.
“Monkey Businessmen” (1946): The Stooges seek rest and relaxation at a sanitarium run by a quack named Doc Mallard.
OCLC #: 35793400
Added: November 2, 2011
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The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show
Call Number: VHS01530
by: Dean Martin; Jerry Lewis; Vera Miles; Jack Benny; Bud Yorkin; Ernest D Glucksman; Front Row Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Edison, NJ : Front Row Entertainment, Inc., 1995.
Notes: An episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis which aired in June 1948. Running time 55 mins.
Summary: In this program Dean and Jerry are joined by Vera Miles and surprise guest Jack Benny. Jerry gets to show off his serving skills when he gets a job as a waiter in Dean’s Diner. Mr. & Mrs. Martin, (Dean & Vera) adopt “little boy” Jerry. 
OCLC #: 41169324Added: November 2, 2011
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