Summary: A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DOD
Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAYSummary: 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 THESummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Mewes, Jason
Summary: An actor tired of being type-cast adopts method acting and gradually descends into madness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MADSummary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in this cinematic portrait, the pioneering conceptual American artist comes alive. Using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world, director Chris Teerink explores the artist's work and philosophy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOLSummary: At the heart of this film is the question of whether Leni Riefenstahl was a Nazi, as her detractors claim, or whether she was the victim of society-- a naive, young woman who made Triumph des Willens on assignment, and simply did a very good job. This film does not judge, and Riefenstahl (a fiesty 90 during production) is genuine in her protest. Or has the passage of 50-plus years simply...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WONSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHASummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: 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 MAURiefenstahl, Leni
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRESummary: A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ZIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZIESummary: 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: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: 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 FORCarroll, Lewis
Summary: The interweaving of ballet, mime, acrobatics, and theatre gracefully dramatizes the story. Performed by the Prague Chamber Ballet and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: V.I.E.W. Video 1993
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALILewis, Gary
Summary: The early life of veterinarian James Herriot against the backdrop of the rise of fascism in Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YOUSummary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPSummary: The year without a Santa Claus: When Santa decides to take Christmas off, two elves go to find children to convince Santa to come back, but first they have to get past the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007