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Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written. From his early years in Boston and Philadelphia to the publication of his Poor Richard's Almanac to the American Revolution and beyond, Franklin's autobiography is a fascinating, personal exploration into the life of America's most interesting founding father.
3) Gypsy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother.
Series
Criterion collection volume 200
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003], c1969
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a sauve charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale. Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England?s military strategies...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged.) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Description
Rip Van Winkle is an idler who would rather starve for a penny than work for a pound, and his wife is constantly nagging him. In search of peace, Rip heads off to the woods one day with his faithful dog, Wolf. High up in the Catskill Mountains, Rip meets an unusual group of little men. He drinks their strong beverage and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, he finds that twenty years have passed--the world has changed and so has he.
8) Wargames
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998, 1983
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([7] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
11) West Side story
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The greatest story ever told in the most acclaimed musical of all time! Experience every sensational song, dazzling dance number and magical movie moment of West Side Story in this 50th Anniversary Edition! This electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York.
Series
Fox film noir volume 8
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
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"A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items : a wallet, a letter from an angry ex-lover, and a note from one Larry Cravat, an apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat, the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles, enlisting the help of a saloon singer, her boss and a police lieutenant. When he starts asking questions, he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops, but ultimately makes a shocking discovery."--Container....
13) Public enemy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in Prohibition-era urban America" -- Wikipedia.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
15) West Side story
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
16) I-spy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alex is a federal intelligence agent who has been assigned to find a weapon which has gone missing: a stealth fighter jet which can turn invisible to the human eye. Alex learns a rogue agent has sold the jet to a powerful and unscrupulous underground arms dealer. It seems Gundars is a rabid boxing fan, so in order to get inside his organization, Scott recruits a longtime middleweight champion whose ego nearly exceeds his talent in the ring. The two...
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural.
18) West Side story
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth -- in Harlem -- and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?
20) Beyond the Rocks
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
BEYOND THE ROCKS, the silent romance starring film legends Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino was long considered one of the great "lost" films from the Hollywood golden age, only a one-minute fragment was known to exist in the Nederlands Filmmuseum.
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