Summary: Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn adversity into triumph.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Searchlight Pictures 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 127 RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONESummary: Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent him from plunging Japan into war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 13ACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THISummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: A mysterious monster is terrorizing the Atlantic Ocean and famous marine biologist Professor Aronnax is summoned to investigate. Accompanied by his daughter Sophie, the two trail the monstrous creature -- only to discover that the beast is actually a futuristic submarine captained by the eccentric Captain Nemo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE 20,000 2004Summary: A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family 22,000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE 200Summary: When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 9Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NINSummary: Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Artificial 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI AISummary: Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACRSummary: The classic story of the flight of Huck Finn and the slave Jim down the Mississippi, and their encounters with the world at large.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADVSummary: A young cat and dog discover the dangers and delights of the outside world when they wander away from the farm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Milo 2005Summary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Adventures 2010Summary: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVSummary: Join the amazing journeys of young Indy as he crosses paths with Picasso, Freud, Edison and other larger-than-life luminaries on his travels around the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ADVSummary: A young slave in ancient Egypt must choose between joining the Christianity movement, which will give him freedom, and the woman he loves, who is his master and an atheist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALESummary: Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AmeliaSummary: A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANTSummary: An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ASTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Astronaut 2007Summary: Babe: A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward, outside of the tall tales his dad told him while growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIG RATED PG-13Summary: The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as a pirate to recover the ship and its treasure and to rescue a captive princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998