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Charrière, Henri 1906-1973 Drama Escapes Escapes French Guiana Devil's Island Drama Merchant mariners North Atlantic Ocean Drama Merchant ships North Atlantic Ocean Drama Prisons French Guiana Devil's Island Drama Prisons French Guiana Drama Supernatural Drama United States World War, 1939-1945 North Atlantic Ocean DramaSummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNASummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Summary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOOSummary: The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as the Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit. Everyone that is, except Doris Walker, his boss, who is raising her daughter not to believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIRSummary: At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OlSummary: 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 GRESummary: Set in near-future Seattle, follow couple Jude Williams and Emma Ryerson as their relationship grows amidst the global epidemic from the Alzheimer's-like condition, Neuroinflammatory Affliction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA LITSummary: Jujutsu High is about to host its Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event an annual competition of Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High campuses. Fushiguro, Kugisaki, and second-years Maki, Toge, and Panda meet up to greet Todo and the other Kyoto students on arrival. Sparks immediately start to fly when Gojo rushes in late to the meetup and starts handing out the souvenirs he brought from his business trip...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME JUJSummary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPSummary: On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOL1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOLSummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: After Frank 'The Fixer' Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: He wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer, or as he calls it, 'LILYHAMMER.' Thrust into a brand new world, Frank is confronted with a colorful cast of characters totally unlike the New York variety.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LILSummary: Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WomanCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF WoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMSummary: A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series My 2019Summary: Living among the ordinary citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are four teenagers who are not there by choice. Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess are humans with extraordinary gifts. They are human/alien hybrids, sent here as replacements for the royalty of an alien race. This year the show will be built around around the relationships between human and aliens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROSSummary: Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge, an army of undead zombies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: 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: In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FINBee Gees
Summary: Twenty years after his grandfather was a hit in World War I, the new Sgt. Pepper tries to carry on the tradition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2003
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SGTGere, Richard
Summary: A young boy who is ill is taken on a magical adventure where he meets New York Yankee legends, both past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HENSummary: At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performances, a dysfunctional sonic collective faces power struggles, vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022