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 TOPSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSSummary: A precocious teen-ager and burgeoning music writer gets the chance to escape his overprotective mother when he is hired by Rolling Stone to tour with an up-and-coming band and write a story about them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALMSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Summary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: Presents the life of an Irish man whose dreams inspired hope, whose words ingited passion, and whose courage forged a nation's destiny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MICSummary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BECSummary: Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, fueled by his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Washington, D.C., in the mid-to-late 1960s, vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to become a unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. to fully express himself and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the new ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TALSummary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARWatts, Naomi
Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIA RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DIASummary: In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Navy flight navigator Lt. Burnett and his pilot are shot down over Bosnia during a routine reconaissance mission after seeing something the Serbian forces didn't want them to see. Once on the ground, deep inside enemy territory, the chase is on as they are tracked by rebel forces who want to make sure they are dead. Meanwhile back on the aircraft carrier, the commander, who wants to mount a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEHSummary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Adventures 2010Summary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SavingCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: 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
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOWSummary: 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 DANSummary: 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 LIVSummary: Adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages. Also includes a Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Two Mouseketeers, and a swashbuckler movie trailer gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IVAMurray, 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