Summary: When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FRASummary: Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMSummary: The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynets operations, where they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Terminator 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TERSummary: Steve attemps to relocate a hugh crocodile to save him from poachers. But what Steve doesn't know is that the big croc has swallowed a top-secret U.S. satellite beacon... making them both targets of the U.S. special agents assigned to retrieve the beacon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: DVD Family Crocodile 2002Summary: When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAFSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MUTSummary: Story of a life-changing experience for a biologist studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North. A green young biologist named Tyler (Smith), is sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NEVSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: A group of present-day archeology students are stunned to discover a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357 ... from their own professor. He's been blasted back in time to the 14th century. To rescue him, they must travel back and survive one of the most violent battles in world history--and make it back to the 21st century alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Timeline 2004Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TIMSummary: Vacationing journalists try to track down a missing war criminal in one of Eastern Europe's deadliest regions. What begins as an impulsive reporting adventure immediately turns dangerous, as hostile locals, shady underworld figures and a case of mistaken identity put them squarely in their target's crosshairs. Amid the bullets and bombs, they discover that getting the scoop is one thing--...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuSummary: Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth, the giants strive to reclaim the land they one lost, forcing Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE JACSummary: In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ELYSummary: Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MATGordon-Levitt, Joseph
Summary: An assassin known as a "Looper" discovers that he must kill his future self sent back 30 years in time by mobsters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LOOSummary: Based on a the 1943 documentary about the famous plane of World War II, the Flying Fortress. Story of the crew of the Memphis Belle one of the B-17s flying and their last mission before they can go home to a hero's welcome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEMSummary: Cloud Strife struggles with his past, and decides to live a solitary life, in a peaceful town with orphans. Then one ordinary day, Cloud receives a phone call for a job asking protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FINSummary: A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger. First, he must complete one last mission, even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 3DACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER THRSummary: "A close-knit team of six young men sailed away from Ireland in 1977 with dreams of a better life. Thirty years later, they reunite at the wake after one of them suddenly dies. Hardened by years of disappointment and drink, they quickly realize that their bonds of friendship have weakened, provoking regret, jealousy and tension. As they reveal their guilty feelings about their dead friend and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI EQUSummary: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HUNSummary: With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007