In Darkness

cover image Barcode: 58965031 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 145 min. Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Angieszka Holland Description: "A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov." -IMDb Rating Audience (Video Only): R Collection: Language Resource Center

Kanal

cover image Barcode: 58923925 Call Number: V-POL 002 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 96 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Andrzej Wajda Description: The almost hallucinatory portrait of a group of Polish citizens who attempt to flee the Nazis through the sewer system of war-devastated Warsaw. (Wajda, 1957) Rating Audience (Video Only): NR Collection: Language Resource Center

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

cover image Barcode: 58961420 Call Number: V-POL 027 Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: PAL Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Marek Nowicki; Jan Rybkowski Description: "An unemployed man goes to Warsaw to look for a job. By accident he gets into the high society circles and starts a spectacular career." -iMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

Knife in the Water

cover image Barcode: 58957651 Call Number: DQ-58957651 Material Type: Video -Digital Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Roman Polanski Description: On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization. Collection: Language Resource Center

Kobieta samotna = Single Woman / A Woman Alone

cover image Barcode: 58957750 Call Number: V-POL 024 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 91 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Agnieszka Holland Description: "A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. They live in a drab apartment. She is a mail carrier and her son is her only pride and joy. She hardly communicates with anybody else in a humanly open and natural way. She also cares for a sick relative. One day when delivering a monthly pension to a crippled young miner Jacek, she faints at his doorsteps. Even though she is determined to live alone after divorcing her drunken first ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Korczak

cover image Barcode: 58957595 Call Number: Holocaust Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 118 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Andrzej Wajda Description: A film of emotional urgency and great lyrical power, KORCZAK tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930’s Warsaw. After the German invasion of Poland, friends urge Korczak to flee the country. But Korczak refuses to abandon his children and so must move his orphanage into the Warsaw ghetto. As the war continues it becomes plain that, despite Korczak’s tireless efforts, the children will be deported to concentration ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Księga strachów

cover image Barcode: 58962819 Call Number: FR-POL Nie Material Type: Print Language: Polish Creator: Zbigniew Nienacki Collection: Language Resource Center

Langenscheidt's Pocket Polish Dictionary

Barcode: 58954765 Call Number: IL-POL Lan Material Type: Print-Reference Language: Polish, English Description: The classic Pocket Polish by Professor Tadeusz Grzebieniowski, revised and updated by Dr. Andrzej Kaznowski Collection: Language Resource Center

Pan Tadeusz

cover image Barcode: 58949193 Call Number: V-POL 010 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 150 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Andrzej Wajda Description: A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able unite as one with the patriotic and rebelious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control. Collection: Language Resource Center

Photographer

Barcode: 58948113 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 80 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Polish Creator: Darius Jablonski Description: In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred color slides from World War II were found. As it turns out, they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto's chief accountant Walter Genewein. The picture of Ghetto life contained in some of the first color slides ever-became the basis for a film about holocaust as seen by a German accountant. The colorful world in the slides is set against vivid recollections of Arnold Mostowicz-a man who witnessed the holocaust as a Jewish doctor in ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Piranesi

cover image Edition: Polish Edition Barcode: 58994786 Call Number: FR-POL Cla Material Type: Print Language: Polish Creator: Susanna Clarke (author); Wojciech Szypuła (translator) Description: Długo wyczekiwany powrót autorki sprzedanego w milionach egzemplarzy bestsellera Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Poland: 1000 Years Of History And Culture

Volume Number: parts 1-2 Barcode: 46300021 Call Number: L-SP19A Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 43 min. Language: Polish Description: Part 1: Piast Poland Earliest Origins To 1370 (23 Minutes) Traces The Country's Evolution From A Slavic Tribal Confederation To A Full-Fledged Participant In The Medieval Latin West Under The Reign Of The Last Piast King, Casimir The Great. Part 2 Jagiellonian Poland 1386-1572 (20 Minutes) Chronicles The "Golden Age" Of The Polish Kingdom Under The Jagiellonian Dynasty When Union With Neighboring Lithuania Made It The Largest State In Europe. (Conant, 1989) Collection: Language Resource Center

Poland: 1000 Years Of History And Culture

Volume Number: parts 3-4 Barcode: 46300022 Call Number: L-SP19B Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 120 min. Language: Polish Description: Part 1: Piast Poland Earliest Origins To 1370 (23 Minutes) Traces The Country's Evolution From A Slavic Tribal Confederation To A Full-Fledged Participant In The Medieval Latin West Under The Reign Of The Last Piast King, Casimir The Great. Part 2 Jagiellonian Poland 1386-1572 (20 Minutes) Chronicles The "Golden Age" Of The Polish Kingdom Under The Jagiellonian Dynasty When Union With Neighboring Lithuania Made It The Largest State In Europe. (Conant, 1989) Collection: Language Resource Center

Poland's History In Painting

Barcode: 46300020 Call Number: L-SP18 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 109 min. Language: Polish Description: Chronicles Poland's History In Painting From Prehistoric Times To 1945. Major Historical Events In Artistic Visions Of Top Polish Painters: Jan Matejko, Wojciech, Jacek Malczewski, Piotr Michalowski, Artur Grottger, Jzef Brandt And Others. Paintings Include The Battle Of Grunwald, Prussian Homage, Stanczyk, Wernyhora, Nicolaus Copernicus, May 3rd Constitution, Death Of Elenai, Pilsudski On Horseback. (Walter, 1988) Collection: Language Resource Center

Rejs = A Trip Down the River

cover image Barcode: 58963256 Call Number: V-POL 028 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 65 min. System Requirements: NTSC Region 1 Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Marek Piwowski Description: A stowaway on a cruise ship is mistaken for an entertainment director. Collection: Language Resource Center

Sami Swoi = Our Folks

cover image Edition: Colorized version Barcode: 58965119 Call Number: V-POL 029 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 80 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Plays on VLC Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Sylwester Checinski Description: "Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms." -- IMDb First film in a Polish comedic trilogy Collection: Language Resource Center

Seksmisja = Sexmission

cover image Barcode: 58956295 Call Number: V-POL 016 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 117 min. Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Juliusz Machulski Description: Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, the World War III breaks out and life have been wiped out of the surface of the Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women. Max used to be woman-chaser so he finds ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Słownik angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski = English-Polish, Polish-English Dictionary

cover image Barcode: 58963501 Call Number: IL-POL Buc Material Type: Print Language: Polish, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Swiety Interes = Holy Business

Barcode: 58956333 Call Number: V-POL 020 Material Type: Video -DVD Language: Polish Creator: Directed by Maciej Wojtyszko Description: Two brothers inherit an old car which is said to have belonged to bishop Karol Wojtyla, better known as John Paul II. The car is soon considered miraculous, and both men perceive it as a chance for a better life. Collection: Language Resource Center

Teach yourself Polish

Edition: New ed. Barcode: 58926123 Call Number: IL-POL Got Material Type: Language Kit Language: Polish, English Description: A complete course covering vocabulary, script, pronunciation, and both written and oral exercises. Consists of 11 units on one CD. Contents: Disc 1. Units 1-11 -- Disc 2. Units 12-20. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Land Of The White Eagle

Volume Number: part 2 Barcode: 46300005 Call Number: L-SP05B Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 90 min. Language: Polish Description: A Series Of 10-Minute Films Highlighting Poland's History And Traditions, Cultural Heritage, Architecture And Landscape. Part 1 Of The Series Features The Following Programs: 1) The Cradle Of Polish Statehood; 2) The Tatra Mountains; 3) Chopin's Birthplace; 4) The Baltic Coast; 5) In The Footsteps Of The Piasts; 6) A Concert At The Rogalin Palace; 7) The Pienny And Beskidy Mountains; 8) Silesia; 9) Where Eagles Nest. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Land Of The White Eagle

Volume Number: part 3 Barcode: 46300006 Call Number: L-SP05C Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 89 min. Language: Polish Description: A Series Of 10-Minute Films Highlighting Poland's History And Traditions, Cultural Heritage, Architecture And Landscape. Part 1 Of The Series Features The Following Programs: 1) The Cradle Of Polish Statehood; 2) The Tatra Mountains; 3) Chopin's Birthplace; 4) The Baltic Coast; 5) In The Footsteps Of The Piasts; 6) A Concert At The Rogalin Palace; 7) The Pienny And Beskidy Mountains; 8) Silesia; 9) Where Eagles Nest. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Land Of The White Eagle

Barcode: 46300004 Call Number: L-SP05A Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 95 min. Language: Polish Description: A Series Of 10-Minute Films Highlighting Poland's History And Traditions, Cultural Heritage, Architecture And Landscape. Part 1 Of The Series Features The Following Programs: 1) The Cradle Of Polish Statehood; 2) The Tatra Mountains; 3) Chopin's Birthplace; 4) The Baltic Coast; 5) In The Footsteps Of The Piasts; 6) A Concert At The Rogalin Palace; 7) The Pienny And Beskidy Mountains; 8) Silesia; 9) Where Eagles Nest. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Polish Pantheon: The Wawel

Barcode: 46300027 Call Number: L-SP24 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 40 min. Language: Polish Description: A Look Back To The City's Glory Days, When Cracow Was The Capital Of A Flourishing Country. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Vistula

Barcode: 46300028 Call Number: L-SP25 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 45 min. Language: Polish Description: From The Brutality Of The Tatars To The Inhumanity Of The Nazis, The Blood Shed Along The Banks Of The Vistula Has Colored Its Historical Image: Cracow, Scene Of Casimir The Great's University; Warsaw, Famous For Its Ghetto; Gdansk, Site Of Walesa's Rise To Promise And As Danzig, The Cause Of Countless Battles. Copernicus Was Born In Warsaw, Solidarity In Gdansk, Uncounted Numbers Died At Auschwitz - A Checkered Past, Not Without Glory, Is Recounted In This Program. Collection: Language Resource Center