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Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Summary: 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 FOR

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Summary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OED

Summary: On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA SUL

Summary: The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ja

Summary: Set in the early 1900's. "[The film] tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROO

Summary: Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OTH

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Summary: Tells the story of an immigrant family in Spain of the 19th century struggling to establish a farm amidst the hostility of the townspeople.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAR

Summary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEA

Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Drums

Summary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROM

Summary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAR

Summary: V.3 Goldfinger : From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nightclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond's third screen adventure is an exhilarating, pulse-pounding thrill-ride! Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Danjaq LLC, and United Artists 2006

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAM

Summary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008

Summary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJ

Summary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRI

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRI

Summary: Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OF

Summary: The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy; these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THI

Summary: Night key: An ingenious inventor of a security system is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BOR

Summary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.

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