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Celluloid wars : a guide to film and the American experience of war / by Wetta, Frank J.,1942-(CARDINAL)268972; Curley, Stephen J.(CARDINAL)268971;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes."Uncle Toby's war": war films and aesthetic experience -- "Been to see the elephant": film and combat experience -- Early American wars -- Wars with Mexico -- American Civil War -- Indian wars -- New Imperial wars -- The Great War -- World War II (wartime films) -- World War II (postwar films) -- Korean War -- Vietnam War -- Banana wars and interventions -- Nuclear warfare -- War film bibliography -- General reference to film.1210L
Subjects: Catalogs.; Bibliographies.; War films; War films; War films;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / by Arsenault, Raymond.(CARDINAL)277550;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306).You don't have to ride Jim Crow -- Beside the weary road -- Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin' -- Alabama bound -- Get on board, little children -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Freedom's coming and it won't be long -- Ain't gonna let no jail house turn me 'round -- Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom -- Oh, freedom -- Epilogue: Glory bound.Presents a comprehensive study of the 1961 Freedom Rides from Washington DC to the deep south that challenged the segregated transit laws, and describes the brutal confrontation between the riders and the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and Mississippi.AdultAdult
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Segregation in transportation; African Americans; Civil rights movements; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Segregation in transportation; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Reagan : an American story / by Bosch, Adriana.(CARDINAL)219001;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Reagan, Ronald.; Presidents;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Reagan : an American story / by Bosch, Adriana.(CARDINAL)219001;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Reagan, Ronald.; Governors; Presidents;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Chasing the moon [sound recording] : the people, the politics, and the promise that launched America into the space age / by Stone, Robert,1958-author.; Andres, Alan,author.; Graham, Holter,narrator.(CARDINAL)347521;
Read by Holter Graham.An iconic young president issued the historic moon landing challenge. This book tells the stories of the visionaries who helped America win the space race with the first lunar landing fifty years ago.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Project Mercury (U.S.); Project Gemini (U.S.); Project Apollo (U.S.); Astronautics and state; Aeronautics and state; Manned space flight; Space flight; Space race.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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These amazing shadows [videorecording] / by Billington, James H.,interviewee.(CARDINAL)150450; Billington, James H.(CARDINAL)150450; Blush, Doug,screenwriter.; Blush, Doug.aus; Kopple, Barbara,interviewee.; Kopple, Barbara.; Mariano, Paul,director,producer,screenwriter.; Mariano, Paul.drtproaus; Norton, Kurt,director,producer,screenwriter.; Norton, Kurt.drtproaus; O'Malley, Christine,producer.; O'Malley, Christine.pro; Reiner, Rob,interviewee.; Reiner, Rob.; Waters, John,1946-(CARDINAL)272214; Waters, John,1946-interviewee.(CARDINAL)272214; Gravitas Docufilms.; PBS Distribution (Firm)(CARDINAL)309769; PBS Home Video.(CARDINAL)218235; Sundance Selects (Firm)(CARDINAL)340706;
MARCIVE 2/2/12Director of photography, Frazer Bradshaw ; editors, Doug Blush and Alex Calleros ; composer, Peter Golub ; director of motion graphics, Braian Oakes.Featuring James Billington (Librarian of Congress), Rob Reiner, John Waters, Barbara Kopple, Leonard Maltin, Tim Roth, John Lasseter, Gale Anne Hurd, John Singleton, Wayne Wang.Tells the history and importance of the National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and the American experience itself.Rating: Not rated.DVD ; NTSC ; 5.1 suround sound ; widescreen.2011 official selection, Sundance Film Festival.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; National Film Preservation Board (U.S.); DVDs.; Film archives; Motion picture film; Motion pictures;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Vietnam in American literature / by Melling, Philip H.(CARDINAL)357886;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index.Part I: The narrative voice -- American graffiti -- The Puritan imprint: the military, the militant, and the cultural mind -- The roots of testimony -- Soul speech -- Odd, unsovereign flags -- Part II: Errand in a wilderness -- Contemporary critical theory and debate -- Designing Vietnam -- Seeing Vietnam -- The profit of godliness.Examines the connections between colonial ideology and contemporary American writing and films concerning the Vietnam experience.
Subjects: American literature; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Puritans; Puritan movements in literature.; War in literature.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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American experience. [videorecording] / by Burns, Ric,film director.; Platt, Oliver,narrator.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Narrator, Oliver Platt.Follows the plight of the Pilgrims.Rating: TV-PG.DVD.
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The eugenics crusade [videorecording] / by Ferrari, Michelle,television director,television producer,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)536489; Halpern, Nathan,1978-composer (expression); Honeycutt, Connie,television producer.; Leonard, Thomas C.,1960-commentator.; Mukherjee, Siddhartha,commentator.(CARDINAL)347658; Stoll, Corey,1976-narrator.(CARDINAL)599348; Uz, Rafael de la,television producer.; Wailoo, Keith,commentator.(CARDINAL)283726; 42nd Parallel Films,production company.; American Experience Films,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)309769; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.(CARDINAL)189964; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.(CARDINAL)154259;
Composer of original score, Nathan Halpern.Narrator, Corey Stoll ; commentators, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Keith Wailoo, Thomas C. Leonard.Presents the story of the eugenics movement in the U.S., tracing its evolution from a force for human progress through the study of genetics to an anti-humanistic campaign for state-sponsored sterilization and the closing of the country's borders to peoples believed by some to be genetically inferior.TV-PG.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (16x9) presentation; stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944.; Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.; Eugenics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The black American experience. by TMW Media Group,Publisher(DLC)no 99043407 ;
The Black American Experience series featuring African Americans who left their stamp on history. From children of slavery to the first African American elected President, this series is an inspiring journey of courage, defeat and triumph that celebrates outstanding men and women who left their stamp on history. Their stories are a vivid reminder that Yes, We Can overcome hardship and oppression through the strength of our beliefs and personal sacrifice.DVD.
Subjects: Feature films; Nonfiction films; Documentary films; Historical films; African Americans; Minorities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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