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Driver, AdamSummary: A powerhouse of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties, as love-doomed George Hurstwood throws everything away for the love of Carrie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: A housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUSSummary: A unique glimpse at more than fifty years of American history. Educator, civil rights champion, advisor to presidents, envoy to popes, theologian and activist, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh was called on by countless world leaders to tackle the most challenging issues of the day. He built a reputation as a savvy political operator with a penchant for bridging the divide between bitter enemies. Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HESSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALDriver, Adam
Summary: A New York couple hoping for an amicable divorce find themselves in a system that pits them against each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MARSummary: Written and directed by Eliza Hittman, the film is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery, and compassion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NEVSummary: Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GENSummary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJSummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD USSSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNISummary: The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BonnieSummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSummary: Documentary about Theodore Roosevelt. Explores the influence of Roosevelt's childhood, his rise to the U.S. Presidency, and the years after he left office.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRSummary: It's Christmastime as young Robbie Eunson pulls his little sister on a sled through the snow to a snug house in the woods. Robbie is fulfilling the promise he made to their dying mother- that he would find a home for each of the six orphaned children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALLSummary: Explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. From the tents of carnie roadshows of the early 20th century to "Nudie Cuties," blood-soaked gore fests, biker flicks, blaxploitation and beyond. Looks at the films, the filmmakers, shysters and hustlers who made it all happen. Includes over 2 hours of outtakes, classic grindhouse trailers, and long lost, never-before-seen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. Big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: The film unfolds with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico. Cielo learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico's societal corruption in an increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIVSummary: Shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2007