Summary: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHI

Summary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Summary: John Turturro plays an extremely uptight engineer whose entire life is punctual and routine to the point of absurdity. He finds himself struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age. Then a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience when he meets some bizarre but sincere strangers: a free spirit played by Sam Rockwell, a phone sex operator...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1997

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOX

Summary: A small-town family travels to the State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family State 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STA

Summary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blackboard 2005

Summary: Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIF

Summary: In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a European summer vacation before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses. He goes to work at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland - a place where the games are rigged and the rides make you sick. There, he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Films 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADV

Summary: A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BAR

Summary: "This collection features three classic noir films from the 1950s. Thunder on the Hill (1951)--directed by the great Douglas Sirk, a nun (Claudette Colbert) races against time to prove the innocence of a convicted murderess (Ann Blyth) who is being escorted to prison for a date with the gallows. The Price of Fear (1956)--a woman (Merle Oberon) guilty of a hit-and-run accident frames another...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FIL

Summary: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more imporant than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing their virginity with the girl of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their awkward friend Fogell gets a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Superbad 2007

Summary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIF

Summary: A writer is asked to speak by her old professor. Soon she is deeply involved in the lives of a group of students.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I

Summary: After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WAN

Summary: An animated musical version of Lewis Carroll's tale about a girl named Alice. Alice follows a White Rabbit through a very small door and enters Wonderland, where she has many unusual adventures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALI RATED G

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Al

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4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALI

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALI

Summary: An older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter is disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem. He wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOM

Summary: Carousel: (50th Anniversary edition) On the coast of Maine, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAR

Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Summary: The Hurst's are a married couple who are both dentists. Dana has been unhappy with their marriage lately. Backstage at a community theater production, David sees Dana in the arms of another man and is immediately certain she's having an affair. Slater, a disgruntled patient of the Hursts, has gone public with his unhappiness over their work. As he observes the obvious tension in David and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEC

Summary: Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHI

Summary: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED PG 13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Li

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lion 2017

Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tuskegee

Summary: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more imporant than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing their virginity with the girl of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their awkward friend Fogell gets a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUP

Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIO