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Summary: The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIS RATED R

Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAS

Summary: The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DAN

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAN

Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13

Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: When a devastating attack leaves Mark Hogancamp shattered and without his memory, no one expected recovery. But by putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous fantasy world, where he draws strength to triumph in the real one. His astonishing art installation becomes a testament to the powerful women who support him on his journey.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Welcome 2019

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

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

Summary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999

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

Summary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AIR

Summary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ON

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

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOE

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

Summary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014

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3 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WIN

Summary: In 1974 a young gallery assistant is drawn into the wild, never-ending party that is artist Salvador Dalí's life in New York City. As he helps the aging genius prepare for an important show, he discovers not everything is as it seems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 15

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 15:17

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIF

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HID

Summary: "In the spirit of The Blind Side comes this inspiring true story of family, faith, and football... Jon Abbate [is] a rising football star at Wake Forest University... [L]ives are suddenly shattered when the family's youngest son, Luke, is killed in a tragic accident. Inspired by Luke's memory, Jon courageously leads the Wake Forest team to a series of last-minute victories--leading to a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011

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

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

Summary: Brimming with the sounds and personalities of 1950s Nashville, this is the story of legendary guitar player Hank Garland, who played music on his own terms with the likes of Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Elvis Presley. Details the life of a star who burned out too quickly; Garland pioneered music from country to jazz, but a hot temper and whirlwind romantic life lead to early...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CRA

O'Toole, Peter

Summary: Follows the life of Adolf Hitler from his Austrian childhood, to World War I veteran, to leader of the Nazi Party.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2007

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

Summary: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CUR

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

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CUR

Summary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's 2011

Summary: Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEI

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

Summary: 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 127

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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