Summary: A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC THECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie There 2008Summary: Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHASummary: The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORMenochet, Denis
Summary: When glamorous Evelyne Ducat suddenly disappears during a blizzard in rural France, the lives of five people, each harboring their own secrets, become intertwined in their connection to her disappearance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONLSummary: The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: Lured by the canoe-sized legend of a two-hundred-year-old fish, the gang packs their bags for a canoe trip upriver. Dragonfly spills the beans to the local town bullies, who follow the gang in hopes of beating them to the catch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Multimedia Group 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Great 2009Summary: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOGSummary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002Summary: Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOOSummary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ASPSummary: The tale of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and is transported to a magical world of wonderful creatures and mystical adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALISummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: Self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for money and power. Working with his "son and partner," 11-year-old H.W., he becomes a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. His only challenge comes from a young, ambitious charismatic preacher, Eli Sunday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THEStreep, Meryl
Summary: After the death of their father, three grown daughters, each with their own personal issues, return to their Oklahoma home and dysfunctional mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AUGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AUGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AUGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie August 2014Summary: A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALLSummary: With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope and her trusted right-hand man DS Joe Ashworth face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERSummary: Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003