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Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TOD

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Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A naive roustabout is drawn to a mysterious and very sexy young woman who propels him into a secret clan of savage, roaming vampires who prowl the night, and sometimes the day, seeking victims.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NEA

Summary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWA

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

Summary: A bored Manhattan housewife becomes convinced her next-door neighbor has committed a murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOR

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

Summary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRE

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

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

Summary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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

Summary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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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: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHA

Summary: Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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

Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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

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

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Summary: A gracious society matron decides to give her husband one last chance, but soon his ex-mistress shows up, brewing trouble and murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007

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

Summary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RID

Summary: Aliens are everywhere, attacking Planet Earth! Rockets sent into space to probe for future space flights, but the rockets keep disappearing. They are being intercepted by an army of space aliens, who must be stopped.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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Summary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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

Summary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999

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

Summary: Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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

Summary: U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: The small town of Suddenly is invaded by professional assassin John Baron and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Baron sets up vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. Baron is hoping to become "someone" by killing the President.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Legend Films 2009

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

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