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Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 455 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 622 Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)) Focus Features spotlight series Focus features spotlight series Full screen DVD collection John Wayne collection Shirley Temple (Series) ; 3 Studio classic ; 17Filter By Subjects
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Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 455 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 622 Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)) Focus Features spotlight series Focus features spotlight series Full screen DVD collection John Wayne collection Shirley Temple (Series) ; 3 Studio classic ; 17Summary: A young woman visits her grandmother one summer to think over a marriage proposal, and the women in a quilting bee confide to her the stories of the loves that have shaped their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Universal Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHISummary: Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets the lonely lamb Cardigan, he immediately strikes up a friendship. When Cardigan gets sold to another farmer, he realizes that he must embark on an unforgettable journey to find his friend. Along the way he discovers that with courage, heart and the love of your friends, you can accomplish...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CSummary: A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ISummary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVMullan, Peter
Summary: Joseph, a widower who finds himself battling rage, earns a chance to turn his life around after meeting Hannah, a Christian worker at a charity shop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TYRPullman, Bill
Summary: After being sent to prison for the murder of his wife, a jazz musician mysteriously becomes another person.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LOSSummary: When Alice's husband dies and leaves her with their eleven-year old son, she leaves for California, but is stranded in Phoenix. She lands a waitressing job and meets a rancher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Mrs.2004Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrSummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: "This inspiring and entertaining film chronicles Jobs' early days as a college dropout to his rise as the co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. and forced retirement from the company. More than a decade later, Jobs returns and single-handedly sets a course that will turn the once-tiny startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. His epic journey blazes a trail that changes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOB RATED PG-13Summary: Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY AKECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AKESummary: Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DEVISummary: A one-night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in the English Midlands, in an emotionally naked film that's both a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living, and a portrait of a love affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WEESummary: Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author, but when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAKSummary: A reclusive hearing-impaired woman forced to take a vacation finds a temporary job caring for an injured oil rig worker burned and blinded by an accident, over time the two develop an emotinal relathionship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SECSummary: An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005