Summary: Vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GENSummary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brooklyn 2016Summary: A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SQUSummary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: 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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society, leading him to embark on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime that brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego, the Joker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY JOKSummary: When decisions needed to be made at the office, the owner invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind. Now, forced to bring the "Boss" face-to-face with potential purchasers and employees, he hires a failed actor to play the part. Much to everyone's surprise, the unmasked boss plays the ultimate part by becoming a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his Australian hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AFTSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANSummary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI RIDSummary: In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introverted optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. At his sister's engagement party, Weichung bumps into an old friend, Stephen, a wedding photographer who, though also married, is living the high life of a younger, single gay man. When Stephen teases Weichung for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WILSummary: On the run from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple battles vicious thugs who plan to continue the violent tradition of the now-outlawed Purge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors heralding the rise of National Socialism. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm but the authorities believe he is the problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIXSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHSummary: The 12 O'Clock Boys are a notorious urban dirt bike pack in Baltimore that pops wheelies, weaves at excessive speeds through traffic, and impressively evades the hamstrung police. Their antics are viewed through the eyes of adolescent Taekwon Ford, known as Pug, a bright kid from the Westside obsessed with the riders and willing to do anything to join their ranks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWESummary: Welsh musician Gruff Rhys documents his latest musical road trip, retracing the American journey of his 18th century relative, the explorer John Evans, during the summer of 2012 by means of an "Investigative Concert Tour." Starting at Yale University's Beinecke Library, where Evans' famous map of his expedition is said to reside, Rhys immerses himself in concerts, recording sessions, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMEContents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions, and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she uncovers a dark secret about her own past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BORSummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020