Summary: Princess Merida, an archer and self-reliant young woman, makes a decision which defies custom and brings chaos to her kingdom. To restore her kingdom, she must rely on her bravery and archery skills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRA RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BRASummary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: Two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor, Robert Gottlieb, have worked together to create some of the greatest non-fiction books in history. Now 86, Caro is determined to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, wants to edit it. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TURSummary: A young woman, Chiara, moves into a new apartment with her husband. She conceals her true identity as member of the Red Brigades, Italy's terrorist underground, which is currently planning to kidnap the Prime Minister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: "Since 1925 the Streit's matzo factory has sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. While other matzo companies have modernized, Streit's remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation's unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the factory itself. In a neighborhood where the Jewish immigrants long ago moved on, in a nation where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSummary: In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow crevasse, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. He had gone to Bluejohn Canyon, Utah for a rock-climbing weekend alone. Not telling anyone where he was going and finding himself stuck, he knows he can't expect anyone to come to his rescue. As a trained engineer and a skilled, albeit somewhat...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray 127Summary: A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AALSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: 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: This rockin' and rollin' modern-day story finds Goofy bonding with his teenage son, Max, on a cross-country road trip. But en route to the ol' fishing hole, they find themselves up to their floppy ears in misadventure! Will Max learn there's nothing wrong with taking after dear old dad-- even if he is a little goofy?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GOOSummary: James Bond is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures in this jam-packed free-for-all of outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. Roger Moore portrays Agent 007 with lethal determination in a plot that finds him infiltrating the Greek underworld to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FORSummary: Reservoir dogs: After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY QUESummary: A fact-based, rough and tumble western depicting a young and energetic Theodore Roosevelt leading his legendary Rough Riders in their fight against oppressive Spanish rule at the turn of the 20th century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Take a dream cruise around the world's most dramatic coastlines to more than 20 countries. The stunning landscapes of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton; the beauty of the Caribbean; the Mayan ruins; the Panama Canal; Big Sur's coastline; Alaska's wilderness. Norway's fjords; Scotland's lochs and glens; the Rhine's castles and medieval cities; France's rivers; Lisbon's contrasts; Gibraltar's caves;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.2 SCESummary: A documentary that chronicles the history of westward expansion and the construction of the largest stainless steel structure ever built, the Gateway Arch. Featured are newly discovered construction footage, rare photographs of westward expansion and early conceptual drawings by architect Eero Saarinen. Dozens of interviews include World Trade Center Master Plan architect Daniel Libeskind and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.7866 GATSummary: Actual film record of the expedition (April 28, 1947 thru August 7, 1947) photographed by those 5 men who lived its great adventure of traveling 4300 miles, on a raft, across the ocean from Peru to Polynesia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Associates 1997
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KONHagen, Pal Sverre
Summary: Determined to prove a theory, explorer Thor Heyerdahl leads the Kon-Tiki expedition as he and his crew travel from South America and Polynesia on a raft made from balsa wood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KON1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KON
Summary: After his wife dies, Matt Calder and his young son begin a new life in the breathtaking, rugged Northwest wilderness, where Calder is robbed and beaten by ruthless gambler Harry Weston. When Weston's beautiful fiancée then decides to nurse Calder back to health, the insanely jealous Weston risks their lives by taking them all on a ride down a treacherous river in this spectacular looking western.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIVSummary: "Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting thier skills against ruthless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Goldeneye 2007Summary: Hijacking broadcasts from Finland with makeshift yet powerful TV antennas, the people of Estonia, while still under the rule of the Soviet Union and its propaganda, found new heroes in JR Ewing and David Hasselhoff, and quickly became obsessed with the forbidden fruit that was western pop culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DISSummary: Desperate to buy a hot-selling toy, a father endures a frantic last-minute shopping spree on Christmas Eve.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JINSummary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019