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LBJ a KERA production in association with David Grubin Productions ; written and produced by David Grubin.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Joh Collection: VR
ISBN: 1415716846
Pub. Info: Hollywood, Calif. : PBS Home Video : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c1991.
Target Audience: Not rated.
"LBJ presents the full sweep of his amazing life: an impoverished childhood in central Texas, he assassination of President Kennedy, the War on Poverty, the war in Vietnam, the Great Society program and riots in inner cities, and his withdrawal from politics, disillusioned and defeated"--Container.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Joh Collection: VR
ISBN: 1415716846
Pub. Info: Hollywood, Calif. : PBS Home Video : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c1991.
Target Audience: Not rated.
"LBJ presents the full sweep of his amazing life: an impoverished childhood in central Texas, he assassination of President Kennedy, the War on Poverty, the war in Vietnam, the Great Society program and riots in inner cities, and his withdrawal from politics, disillusioned and defeated"--Container.
The pianist a Roman Polanski film ; a France-Poland-Germany-United Kingdom coproduction ; R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runteam Ltd. with the participation of Canal+ ... [et al.] ; produced by Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde ; screenplay by Ronald Harwood.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Szp Collection: VR
ISBN: 078327856X
Pub. Info: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, c2003.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: R, for violence and brief strong language.
Based on the book āSmierāc miasta by Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Videodisc release of a 2002 motion picture.
Special features: "A story of survival" featurette which includes insight into the making of the film, Roman Polanski's own story of survival during WWII, behind-the-scenes interviews with Oscar winners Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody and Ronald Harwood, clips of Wladyslaw Szpilman playing the piano.
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Szp Collection: VR
ISBN: 078327856X
Pub. Info: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, c2003.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: R, for violence and brief strong language.
Based on the book āSmierāc miasta by Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Videodisc release of a 2002 motion picture.
Special features: "A story of survival" featurette which includes insight into the making of the film, Roman Polanski's own story of survival during WWII, behind-the-scenes interviews with Oscar winners Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody and Ronald Harwood, clips of Wladyslaw Szpilman playing the piano.
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Guns, germs, and steel produced by Lion Television for National Geographic Television & Film.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVDR 303.4 Gun Collection: VR
ISBN: 0792292553
Pub. Info: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic ; [Burbank, Calif.] : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2005, c2004.
Target Audience: Young Adult Follett Library Resources
Based on the book by Jared Diamond.
Originally produced for television in 2004.
Disc 2 includes interactive timelines and maps, Jared Diamond biography, and book excerpt.
Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," examines the factors that have led societies to gain power and technological superiority over others throughout history, discussing geography, natural resources, social and agricultural innovations, weapons, and disease.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVDR 303.4 Gun Collection: VR
ISBN: 0792292553
Pub. Info: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic ; [Burbank, Calif.] : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2005, c2004.
Target Audience: Young Adult Follett Library Resources
Based on the book by Jared Diamond.
Originally produced for television in 2004.
Disc 2 includes interactive timelines and maps, Jared Diamond biography, and book excerpt.
Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," examines the factors that have led societies to gain power and technological superiority over others throughout history, discussing geography, natural resources, social and agricultural innovations, weapons, and disease.
Woodrow Wilson reluctant warrior / written and directed by Paul Budline ; produced by Paul Budline Productions ; produced by History Television Networks [for] A&E Television Networks.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Wil Collection: VR
ISBN: 0767090721
Pub. Info: [New York] : A&E Home Video, c1996.
Originally produced as part of the television series Biography.
The video surveys the life of Woodrow Wilson, the President responsible for the Federal Reserve Bank, American involvement in World War I and the League of Nations.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Wil Collection: VR
ISBN: 0767090721
Pub. Info: [New York] : A&E Home Video, c1996.
Originally produced as part of the television series Biography.
The video surveys the life of Woodrow Wilson, the President responsible for the Federal Reserve Bank, American involvement in World War I and the League of Nations.
Warriors don't cry : a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High / Melba Pattillo Beals.
Beals, Melba.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: B Bea Collection: TX
ISBN: 0671899007
Pub. Info: New York : Simon Pulse, 2002, c1995.
Target Audience: Young Adult Follett Library Resources. 1000 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.5 9.0 18436 IN
Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.
Beals, Melba.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: B Bea Collection: TX
ISBN: 0671899007
Pub. Info: New York : Simon Pulse, 2002, c1995.
Target Audience: Young Adult Follett Library Resources. 1000 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.5 9.0 18436 IN
Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.
Slave narratives : the journey to freedom / [compiled] by Elaine Landau.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: 920 Sla Collection: TX
ISBN: 053111743X
Pub. Info: New York : Franklin Watts, c2001.
Target Audience: 5-8 Follett Library Resources.
Contains excerpts from four slave narratives that provide insight into what life was like for African-Americans before, during, and after the Civil War.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: 920 Sla Collection: TX
ISBN: 053111743X
Pub. Info: New York : Franklin Watts, c2001.
Target Audience: 5-8 Follett Library Resources.
Contains excerpts from four slave narratives that provide insight into what life was like for African-Americans before, during, and after the Civil War.
Ansel Adams a documentary film / written and directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Ric Burns & Marilyn Ness ; a co-production of Sierra Club Productions and Steeplechase Films.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Ada Collection: VR
ISBN: 0780639391
Pub. Info: [Alexandria, VA?] : PBS DVD Video ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2003.
Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment of The American Experience.
"Portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist-for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected"--container.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD B Ada Collection: VR
ISBN: 0780639391
Pub. Info: [Alexandria, VA?] : PBS DVD Video ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2003.
Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment of The American Experience.
"Portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist-for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected"--container.
Journal of a revolutionary war woman / by Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever.
Greenberg, Judith E.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: 973.3 Gre Collection: TX
ISBN: 0531112594
Pub. Info: New York : Franklin Watts, 1996.
An annotated personal account drawn from: Personal recollections of the American Revolution / by Lydia Minturn Post. 1859.
Entries from the journal of Mary Titus Post written during the American Revolution are presented with background information to help explain their historical context.
Greenberg, Judith E.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: 973.3 Gre Collection: TX
ISBN: 0531112594
Pub. Info: New York : Franklin Watts, 1996.
An annotated personal account drawn from: Personal recollections of the American Revolution / by Lydia Minturn Post. 1859.
Entries from the journal of Mary Titus Post written during the American Revolution are presented with background information to help explain their historical context.
Frank Lloyd Wright a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, D.C. ; directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Peter Miller.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD 720 Fra Collection: VR
ISBN: 0780632346
Pub. Info: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2001, 1998.
"PBS DVD gold."
Bonus features include Ken Burns: Making history, a conversation with Ken Burns, Charlie Rose interview with producers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and PC web link to the Frank Lloyd Wright Web site.
Uses interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the melodramatic life and stunning architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: DVD 720 Fra Collection: VR
ISBN: 0780632346
Pub. Info: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2001, 1998.
"PBS DVD gold."
Bonus features include Ken Burns: Making history, a conversation with Ken Burns, Charlie Rose interview with producers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and PC web link to the Frank Lloyd Wright Web site.
Uses interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the melodramatic life and stunning architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
They called us enemy / written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott ; art by Harmony Becker.
Takei, George,
Branch: 0033
Call Number: GN-B Tak Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781603094504
Pub. Info: Marietta, Georgia : Top Shelf Productions, 2019.
Target Audience: 4.6. 9-12. GN 680 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG+ 4.6 2.0 Reading Counts RC 5.2 6.0
Japanese American actor and gay activist George Takei offer a graphic memoir describing his years as a child in Japanese internment camps during World War II and how they impacted him, his parents, and the country.
Takei, George,
Branch: 0033
Call Number: GN-B Tak Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781603094504
Pub. Info: Marietta, Georgia : Top Shelf Productions, 2019.
Target Audience: 4.6. 9-12. GN 680 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG+ 4.6 2.0 Reading Counts RC 5.2 6.0
Japanese American actor and gay activist George Takei offer a graphic memoir describing his years as a child in Japanese internment camps during World War II and how they impacted him, his parents, and the country.