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: Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SAP

Cooper, Bradley

Summary: When Pat is released from a mental health facility after being treated for bipolar disorder, he meets a recent widow and the two develop a unique friendship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SIL

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Silver 2013

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

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

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

Gyllenhaal, Maggie

Summary: A mysterious governess uses magic to regain control of the misbehaved children of a woman whose husband is away at war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NAN

Summary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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

Murray, Bill

Summary: With Great Britain facing war with Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invites the King and Queen of England to his home in upstate New York, while engaging in an affair with a distant cousin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HYD

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

Franco, James

Summary: A group of celebrities are faced with the apocalypse while attending a party at James Franco's house.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013

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

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

Patrick, Lee

Summary: A young man reminisces about his upbringing under the care of the unconventional aunt who was his guardian.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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

Summary: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEC

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Aging rocker Danny Collins can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015

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

Summary: Spain, 1966: Antonio is a teacher and a Beatles fan, facets he combines by getting his pupils to recite the lyrics from Help in English class. When he learns that his idol John Lennon is making a film in Almeria, he resolves to meet him. On the journey he picks up two young runaways: Bethlehem, a pregnant girl fleeing a convent, and Juanjo, a boy escaping a dictatorial father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIV

Summary: Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GOO

Summary: When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: Arriving at her new college, Beca finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca leads this a cappella singing group out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Entertainment 2012

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pitch 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Pi

Summary: Four young men form Jamaica's first bobsled team, in hopes of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Loosely based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COO RATED PG

Summary: Two amateur TV hosts land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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