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"When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With these...
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"Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! -- In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. The true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey. At the London Zoo, Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher...
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Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
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12 CDs (approximately 12 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + workbook CD.
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English
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"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...
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A&M Records
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
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English
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"Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a celebration of Joe Cocker's magical mystery tour of the United States in 1970. Faced with a booked tour and no band, a group of friends came to his aid, forming an entourage of 42 musicians, singers, wives, girl friends, children and dogs, who set out to create the world's first flying commune. The film follows Cocker and company through airports, bus terminals, motel pools, hotel kitchens, and a picnic, but the point...
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
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15 Blu-rays : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm)
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Français
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"A progenitor of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. In an abundant career in which she never stopped expanding the notion of what a movie can be, Varda forged a unique cinematic vocabulary that frequently blurs the boundaries between narrative and documentary, and entwines...
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"Any creative person who's considering working in the music business should read this book." —Jimmy Iovine, chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records
All You Need to Know About the Music Business has long been the leading resource for both novices and pros in the business aspects of making and selling music.
With file-sharing technologies and digital streaming services changing the landscape of the music business, it's more important
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Googlepedia® Third Edition The all-encompassing book about everything Google. Not only will you learn advanced search techniques, but you also will learn how to master Google's web and software tools. It's all inside! Google Chrome Google's new web browser Google Gadgets create your own gadgets Google Gears turn web applications into desktop applications Android use Google's phone Blogger create your own personal blog Gmail Google's web-based email...
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Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-Ray edition.
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32 Blu-rays (6,253 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 27 cm).
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English
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Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, this set is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger": Jesse Owens shattering...
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Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
12 Blu-rays (1,894 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 CDs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
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Multiple
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The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse's 'Woodlands dark and days bewitched.' From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen, and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world.
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