Summary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sammy Glick is a Jewish boy born in New York's Lower East Side. He decides to climb the ladder of success by any mean necessary. Through backstabbing and double-crossing, Sammy fights to become the motion picture industry's top screenwriter. A rags to riches story about the world of 1930s Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHASummary: It's Mississippi, the summer of 1970, and two children are determined to build the ultimate treehouse with their friends, while their father, a newly returned Vietnam vet, has equally high hopes to rebuild his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WARSummary: Anastasia: Based on a true story and brought to life with stunning animation, this story is an epic tale of breathtaking action and intrigue certain to captivate the entire family. A spellbinding mix of adventure, romance, comedy, and music, this acclaimed animated spectacular tells the thrilling story of the lost Russian princess Anastasia and her incredible quest to find her true identity....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANASummary: Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALSummary: After Peter gets engaged to the woman of his dreams, he realizes he has not one friend to serve as his best man. To rectify the situation, he goes on a series of man-dates before he meets Sydney Fife, with whom he instantly bonds. While Peter and Sydney become closer, his relationship with his fiancee begins to suffer, forcing him to choose between her or his new B.F.F.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ISummary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNI RATED RSummary: The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD THOSummary: When Emma and Noah find a mysterious box of toys on the beach, strange things start happening. The kids develop special powers and with their parents and teachers, they realize that their mission is far more important than they had ever dreamed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LASSummary: Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power, and influence to outmaneuver the other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BILL RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BILSummary: Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMSummary: The place is Las Vegas. The time: Midnight, New Year's Eve. Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and 10 of his ex-commando buddies get ready to rob the vaults of 5 casinos simultaneously!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Ocean's 1988Summary: Set in late nineteenth-century Russia, a Russian aristocrat returns home after a long absence and learns her family fortune has been squandered and she may have to sell her mansion and the beloved cherry orchard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS CHESummary: Everybody has a superhero inside of them; it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word, this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into an adult superhero, courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart, inside a ripped, godlike body, he revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHASummary: Darby O'Gill and the little people (1959, 91 min., full screen): An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DISSummary: Join the four best friends as they finish their first year of college and dive into a summer of excitement. Bridget journeys to Turkey on an archeological dig. Carmen plunges into the hectic, creative world of summer theater in Vermont. Lena discovers new love and old heartbreak at the Rhode Island School of Design. Tibby takes a big step in her relationship with Brian in the Big Apple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISSummary: Lorelai and Rory are a mother and daughter who are sharing life's ups and downs in a small Connecticut town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A modern-day princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Roman 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROMSummary: Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE QUACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie QuantumCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUA RATED PG-13Summary: 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