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MythBusters. Collection 3 [videorecording]
Discovery Communications, LLC ; produced by Beyond Productions Pty. Ltd. for Discovery Channel.
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2 videodiscs (ca. 540 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A large woman becomes stuck when she's suction-sealed onto an airplane toilet seat during a flight, requiring the crew to land before they could help her off-- myth or actual danger? Only two men are brave or foolish enough to find out: MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. The foremost experts on myth busting, Jamie and Adam pit their thirty years of experience in special effects work against the most dangerous and bizarre theories and tales of all time. In this explosive collection of top-rated episodes from the first three seasons, the MythBusters go to unheard of lengths in their mission to ferret out the fallacious and the phony from the factual.
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New in town [videorecording]
Lionsgate and Gold Circle Films present a Epidemic Pictures and Edmonds Entertainment film, a Safran Company production ; produced by Paul Brooks, Darryl Taja, Tracey Edmonds, Peter Safran ; written by Kenneth Rance and C. Jay Cox ; directed by Jonas Elmer.
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire community out of work, she's forced to reconsider her goals and priorities. Now she needs to find a way to save the town.
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Our daily bread [videorecording]
director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter ; producers: Nikolaus Geyrhalter ... [et al.].
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.
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Paris was a woman [videorecording]
Jezebel Productions & Cicada Films in association with Salzgeber Medien ; produced by Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss, and Frances Berrigan; written and researched by Andrea Weiss ; directed by Greta Schiller.
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Through a combination of still photos, archival film footage, and interview commentary, documents the creative community of French, English and American women, many of whom were lesbians, who gravitated to the Left Bank in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.
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Paul Robeson [videorecording] : speak of me as I am
Warner Vision International ; a BBC Wales/NJN Public Television/NVC Arts co-production ; produced and directed by Rachel Harmer.
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1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
The story of an African-American man who influenced and was one of the front-runners of the civil rights movement in the 1960's is shown in this program that also examines his life as a scholar, athlete, humanitarian, artist, and other things.
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People of the wind [videorecording]
a Milestone Film release ; Carolyn Films presents an Elizabeth E. Rogers production ; produced by Anthony Howarth and David Koff ; directed by Anthony Howarth ; written by David Koff.
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A documentary in which the Babadi, a nomadic tribe belonging to the Bakhtiaries of Iran, annually migrate across the Zagros Mountains from winter to summer pasture with their herds of sheep. The people are led by Jafar Qoli, the Kalanter (chief) of the Babadi groups who assumes responsibility for the trek.
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Pete Kelly's blues [videorecording]
Warner Bros. ; director, Jack Webb ; screenplay, Richard L. Breen.
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A Kansas City singer and his jazz band bow down to pressure from a local gangster and take on the thug's alcoholic girlfriend as a singer.
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Peter Sellers 5-film collection. Disc 2, Carlton-Browne of the F.O [videorecording]
Lionsgate ; StudioCanal ; a British Lion release ; the Boulting Brothers production of ; original story and screenplay by Jeffrey Dell and Roy Boulting ; produced by John Boulting ; directed by Jeffrey Dell and Roy Boulting.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
When news reaches Britain's Foreign Office indicating rich mineral deposits on the small island of Gaillardia, interest in the ex-colony is re-awakened, and bumbling envoy Cadogen de Vere Carlton-Browne is sent to investigate.
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Peter Sellers 5-film collection. Disc 3, I'm all right Jack [videorecording]
Lionsgate ; StudioCanal ; Charter Film productions ; a British Lion release ; screenplay by Frank Harvey, John Boulting,, and Alan Hackney ; produced by Roy Boulting ; directed by John Boulting.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Peter Sellers stars as tragic-comic socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this class struggle comedy; Ian Carmichael is the upperclass twit hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory, who becomes the unwitting pawn of both the corrupt management and the union, provoking a national strike.
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Peter Sellers 5-film collection. Disc 4, Two-way stretch [videorecording]
Lionsgate ; StudioCanal ; [presented by] British Lion Films Ltd. in association with Tudor Productions Ltd., John Harvel Productions Ltd. ; original story and screenplay by John Warren and Len Heath ; additional dialogue by Alan Hackney ; produced by M. Smedley Aston ; directed by Robert Day.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
A hilarious spoof of prison life in which Peter Sellers and his cellmates escape from jail for just one night in order to commit an outrageously funny robbery.
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Peter Sellers 5-film collection. Disc 5, Heavens above! [videorecording]
Lionsgate ; StudioCanal ; the Boulting Brothers production ; a British Lion-Romulus presentation ; original story and screenplay by Frank Harvey and John Boulting, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge ; produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting.
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
An idealistic clergyman is accidentally assigned to a wealthy parish where he insists on ministering to the rich and poor alike, infuriating the town, the religious hierarchy, and the government.
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The power of the past, with Bill Moyers-- Florence [videorecording]
produced and directed by David Grubin ; writers, David Grubin, Bill Moyers ; David Grubin Productions, Inc., in association with WETA, Washington, D.C.
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1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Guided by experts, art historians, and Florentine citizens, Bill Moyers tours Florence's rich Renaissance legacy, exploring the roots of the common artistic, architectural, and human heritage of modern Western civilization.
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