Summary: Turns much of its focus on the unseen James Dean, tracing the little-known television career that preceded the Hollywood legend's three famed feature films. A working actor since 1951, Dean had roles in some 38 TV productions prior to his movie breakthrough in East of Eden. Included is footage from 28 of Dean's TV appearances, and interviews with people who knew or worked with Dean in those...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JAMSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: An ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWESummary: Andrew Shepherd is a consummate politician and a man of integrity, who also happens to be a widower, ready to start dating again. He is swept off his feet by Sydney Ellen Wade. His critics rant that it is immoral and his friends proclaim that it's romantic, but one thing is certain, all that stands between true love and re-election is the approval of the American public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE AMESummary: This biography explores whether Americans should celebrate Jackson or apologize for him. The program reveals the world of America's 7th president, who founded the Democratic Party, yet was viewed by his enemies as an American Napoleon. The film contains reenactments, lithographs, letters and the insights of distinguished scholars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANDSummary: Anne Shirley is thirteen years old and finds that life in Avonlea is never simple. Torn between her free-spirited nature and her own perceived need to become sensible, Anne finds that the journey toward her goal is fraught with confusion and more than a few unfortunate yet amusing mishaps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANN RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA APOSummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDSummary: Tracks the transformation of these wild pack animals into today's popular and loyal pets. Discover the wolf connections that give dogs their hunting, courting, mating, and social traits, and found out what a dog's life is really all about.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EYESummary: Reveals the most amazing facts and folklore about our favorite furry animals. Towering or tiny, ferocious or friendly, mammals trot, hop, swim, and soar. Meet the creatures that make up this huge and varied family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EYESummary: Two nemeses become bonded jilted wives after their husbands reveal they have been having an affair with each other since the 1990s and now plan to get married. As Grace and Frankie muddle through ups and downs with their business, romantic relationships and families, they must face some realities of aging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRASummary: When self-help author Dr. Burke Ryan arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets florist Eloise Chandler, the one person who might be able to help him help himself. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance? They'll find that sometimes when you least expect it...love happens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LoveSummary: A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stella 2013Summary: Through the ages, man has depended on plants for everything from oxygen to food to building supplies. Gives a colorful tour of the world's most dazzling flora - from the most magical to the most bizarre. Watch buds burst, flowers bloom, and discover the myriad ways plants struggle to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EYESummary: GoodFellas: Follows a mid-level gangster over three decades from his Brooklyn neighborhood to his arrest by the FBI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MARSummary: Braving Alaska. Ventures to the Alaskan bush where four families are carving out lives for themselves in the tradition of the state's early settlers. Focuses on the daily challenges of surviving in an untamed wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALASummary: In the third installment of this new adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's novels, Anne Shirley, now a young adult, leaves Green Gables to attend Queen's College, preparing to be a teacher. Facing an difficult choice and being overwhelmed by loneliness, Anne finds a silver lining.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANNSummary: Four orphaned and homeless siblings happen upon an abandoned boxcar, which, with a little creativity and hard work, they gradually furnish with all the comforts of home. Fearful that they will be sent to live with the reputedly cruel grandfather they have never met, the children keep their new home a secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BOXSummary: "A forgotten action gem about a young man who faces off against the sinister sheriff who killed his brother"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2007