Summary: A multitude of family snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments are used to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, overdoses on her lithium medication. He is shot back into his real and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TARSummary: Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by the feature documentary. Along with Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein created the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His comic-based paintings reside in the greatest art galleries and can fetch more than $150 million. But some view this renowned artist as a plagiarist. WHAAM! BLAM! focuses upon the last living comic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHANarducci, Jonathon
Summary: Follows a gay couple from France who travel to Las Vegas to start a family through surrogacy, which is illegal in their country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHOSummary: Cars: Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: "In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, a small town in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania elected a charismatic judge who was hell-bent on keeping kids in line. Under his reign, more than 3,000 children were ripped from their families and imprisoned for years over petty crimes. When one parent dared to question his harsh brand of justice, it was revealed the judge had received...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIDSummary: An intimate glimpse into the harsh world of urban motherhood. Zelda is one of five "disreputable" women who meet in the late afternoon to throw back half-priced drink specials and complain uninhibitedly about life, libidos and lactation. When her best friend moves in after a near-fatal overdose, Zelda is forced to decide whether to change her lifestyle or remain trapped by the illusions of youth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARSummary: Tells the story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM, set against the dazzling and profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in Boston and nationally during the late '60s and early '70s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2022
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WBCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WBCSummary: The rebuilding Ground Zero is the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex construction project in recent American history. The struggle to develop these 16 acres of 'sacred' land has encompassed 12 years, 19 government agencies, and over $20 billion. Aside from the engineering challenges, various constituencies - politicians, developers, architects, insurers, local residents,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2014
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Summary: Like Watergate and Vietnam, it is an icon of recent history. Gov. Rockefeller's brutal re-taking of the prison--a nine-minute, 1600 bullet assault that took the lives of 29 inmates and 10 guards held hostage--put an end to the four-day rebellion. But the struggles for justice, by both prisoners and guards, endured for three decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHOSummary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSchienberg, Jonathan
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COLSummary: Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffereing from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna. After...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BORSummary: As big business takes hold of the rail industry, a local depot gang is forced to either adapt to the new managerial double-talk or take chances with receiving severance pay. Agreements set long ago are suddenly undermined by a new managing director who wipes the slate clean. Tensions mount when the men show up the the depot only to find there is no work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVHill, Simon
Summary: The Zooverse must defend itself against the notorious space villains Grimm Slice and Space Slime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ZOOSummary: An absorbing portrait of the filmmaker David Lynch, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles, in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen, in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: The story of the life of the young lion Simba and the inhabitants of the Pridelands during the reign of his father Mufasa, the Lion King, as well as his successor and younger brother, Scar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE Blu3D DVD LionSummary: Two friends who envy each other's lives wake up one morning to find they have switched bodies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHASummary: Simba, a lion cub who cannot wait to be king, searches for his destiny in the great "Circle of Life" in this coming-of-age adventure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVDLionSummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The story of the surviving members of the Viennese Hakoah sports club women's swim team, a world-dominating competitor in the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down during Hitler's reign, though all the women managed to escape capture. Combines historical footage and contemporary interviews to reconnect the women's lives and memories.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WATSummary: With hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever. Discovering that Scooby has a secret legacy and epic destiny, Shaggy remembers how he met the puppy and how Mystery, Inc. was formed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020