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Women of World War II [DVD video] : the untold stories.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

940.53082 WOM

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:803265

Dante [DVD video] : inferno to paradise

Burns, Ric, television director, screenwriter.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

851.1 DAN

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:721543

Leonardo da Vinci [DVD video]

Burns, Ken, 1953- film director, film producer.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

927 LEO

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:787992

Tony Robinson's VE Day [DVD video] : minute by minute

Joyce, Rebecca, film director.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

940.534 TON

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:680656

Ruthless [DVD video] : Monopoly's secret history

Ives, Stephen, film director, film producer.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

794 RUT

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:684969

The king who fooled Hitler [DVD video]

Elston, Paul, televisiton director, television producer, screenwriter.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

941.084 KIN

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:684970

Casa Susanna [DVD video]

Lifshitz, Sébastien, 1968- screenwriter, film director.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

306.76809 CAS

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:693549

Buffalo soldiers [DVD video] : fighting on two fronts

Holley, Dru, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

973.0496 BUF

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:693561

Plague at the Golden Gate [DVD video]

Yu, Li-Shin, television director, television producer.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

616.9 PLA

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:659586

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The codebreaker [DVD video] : wife, mother, secret American hero

Gazit, Chana, television director.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

652.8 COD

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:608484

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Tulsa [DVD video] : the fire and the forgotten : a centennial exploration of the 1921 race massacre

Silvers, Jonathan, television director, television producer.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

976.686 TUL

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:624107

12.

14 cows for America [DVD video]

Jones, Andy T., film director.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

327.676073 FOU

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:621495

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Based on (work): Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park.

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Bellows, Susan, television producer.

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Bosch, Adriana, television producer, screenwriter.

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Bradler, Wolfgang.

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Canadian Museum of Civilization.

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Cole, Lily, 1987- actor.

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Collins, Michael, 1930- on-screen participant.

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Collinson, Craig (Director), television director, television producer.

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Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.

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Cragg, Tim.

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Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society.

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Cromwell, James.

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Cyr, Luc, 1957-

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Deane, Elizabeth (Elizabeth K.), television director, television producer, screenwriter.

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