Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Sixteen German paratroopers are dropped on the coast of England with orders to bring Churchill back to Hitler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Eagle 2000Summary: A transport plane crashes on Labrador's frozen tundra. The pilot must keep his crew alive while waiting to be rescued. Based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ISLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie IslandSummary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEASummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: 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: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001Johnson, Dwayne
Summary: The G.I. Joes are now fighting not only against Cobra, but also threats by the government which jeopardize their existence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD G.I.Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIWeine, Robert
Summary: After a train accident, the hands of a concert pianist are amputated and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer, triggering his slow descent into madness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HANSwayze, Patrick
Summary: A story about teenage hopes, fears, bravery and violent rebellion and living on the right side of the tracks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTSummary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOBarry, Gene
Summary: Martians invade a small town in 1950s California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI WARSummary: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOJCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOJCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOJOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOJSummary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDSummary: An English nurse and an American soldier have an affair on the Italian front during World War I; Hemingway's semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories are dramatized; a writer lies feverish and delirious from an African hunting accident wound and feels like a failure as he reflects upon his life; a group of expatriates lives in Paris pursuing love, sex, and alcohol but happiness eludes them; a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ERNSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: Details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie -- two young brothers -- and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRIBaye, Nathalie
Summary: Set during the time of World War I, follows a group of women in rural France who have to run the family farm while their men got shipped off to combat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GUASummary: The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018