Summary: Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Summary: Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Irvine, Jeremy

Summary: Albert Narracott enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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

Summary: Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOW

Summary: The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008

Summary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CAS

Summary: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Packed with special features including an exclusive sneak-peek at the upcoming Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, an interview with Jennifer Grey and her screen test, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INF
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INF

Summary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie is not about to retire quietly in a trailer park. Instead he jumps in his Cadillac and hits the road with his estranged grandson for one last wild adventure filled with guns, women and booze. It's just another night in Old Mexico.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Summary: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LOO

Summary: This heartwarming comedy centers on two brothers, John Joe and Jimmy, who haven't seen each other in twenty years. Having parted on bad terms, they meet at the All Ireland traditional music finals as leaders of rival Irish dance bands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRA

Summary: A tale of a man who decides to tear down his house and winds up rebuilding the world around him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Four renegade soldiers are desperate to stay alive during one of World War II's most shocking and unforgettable battles in Hurtgen Forest in the fall of 1944.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JAC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE JAC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Tuck

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: "New York's most controversial fashion photographer Laura Mars exhibits a mystifying psychic ability. In her mind's eye, she "witnesses" a series of bizarre murders with terrifying clarity"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER EYE