Summary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AJASummary: Babe: A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a harsh winter threatens the majestic Scottish Highlands, Rob Roy MacGregor is forced to borrow money from the less-than-noble Marquis of Montrose to provide for his clan. When Montrose's evil henchmen conspire to take the wealth for themselves, they thrust Rob into the most challenging battle of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROBSummary: It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the joeks end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOYSummary: Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MOUSummary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LosSummary: A divorced man disguised as a woman takes a job as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRS RATED PG-13Summary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GONSummary: Barry, a socially awkward man who is constantly being tormented by his seven sisters, falls madly in love with a mysterious woman. But a loose thread from his past may threaten their happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PUNSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHIWilliams, Robin
Summary: A divorced man takes a job in disguise as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRSSummary: Every year Scranton High's 1957 champion basketball team reunite to relive the glory and reinvent the myths. At their twenty-fourth reunion the coach is rallying his boys. Friendship and betrayal, success and failure, past and present--the dreams and realities of the game of life are explored in a moving experience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1983
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THASummary: Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment/Miramax Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FARSummary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: City-boy Ren McCormick finds he has been moved into an uptight Midwestern town where the local officials have banned dancing and rock 'n roll music. Ren revolts with his best friend Willard and the minister's daughter. A timeless struggle between innocent teenage pleasures and adults' need for rigid morality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOO RATED PGPenn, Sean
Summary: A mentally-challenged man seeks custody of his young daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "John Doe," a genial and aimless tramp, is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero; John Doe clubs are formed and a spontaneous movement begins. John Doe is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 1998Summary: A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fried 1999Summary: Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AUGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FIC AUGSummary: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Roach Studios 2000