Summary: Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentine family and follows them to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is a notorious war criminal. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor" to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GERSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRSummary: Born to great wealth, the firecely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting fascism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, a friend of Julia's is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JULSummary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFSummary: Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NIGSummary: Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OUTSummary: A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GASSummary: Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNSummary: Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SINSummary: A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHISummary: Documentary following a core group of subjects from the Admiral of the strike group to the elite fighter pilots to the junior enlisted as they navigate personal conflicts around their jobs, family, faith, patriotism aboard the USS Nimitz deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Distribution 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc CSummary: Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on a naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land, and air.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "After David Dunn emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor-- and without a single scratch on him-- he meets a mysterious stranger who believes comic book heroes walk the earth. A haunting stranger whose obsession with David will change David's life forever."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2001
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER UNBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNBSummary: Tom Dobbs makes an offhand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Man 2006Summary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: "All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise cane in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter get themselves caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang, an angry cabbie and two gorgeous femmes fatales. But, Lee and Carter manage to uncover the secret at the heart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RushSummary: FBI Agent Jack Crawford is led to believe that his partner Tom Wynne and family are killed by the infamous and elusive assassin, Rogue. Jack becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad's and Shiro the Yakuza boss. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IMICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMI RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Imitation 2015Summary: An emotionally distraught cop is traumatized by memories of an abusive childhood in which he was forced to kill the uncle who was abusing him. Fired by his corrupt boss, he is recruited to infiltrate a ring of murderous, gun-running bikers, who would kill him in a second if they found out who he was.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BeyondSummary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004