Summary: An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000

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

Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

Summary: Set against the backdrop of the changing seasons, Paul, a short-fused ex-con, finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job in park maintenance. On his first day, he's teamed with Murph, a groundskeeping veteran who manages to defuse an outburst between Paul and their snide supervisor. Paul sticks with the job, and, as the months pass, he and Murph work their way...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: During the Korean War, three U.S. Army surgeons defy military authority when they are not performing their duties.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD !GB

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

Summary: Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th Century, and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Amazing 2007

Summary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Bob Crane became well known as the star of the comedy hit series "Hogan's Heroes." With fame and success, Crane drove headfirst into the darker, destructive side of celebrity life. He eventually teamed with a video technician who helped him document his numerous sexploits. But when his fast living got out of control, the end result was a brutal murder that remains one of Hollywood's most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: A famed mystery playwright with a recent string of flops may be planning to murder a talented former student in order to steal his work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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

Summary: 10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Everyone's

Summary: Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: The story focuses on the early years of St. Francis of Assisi.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount [Home Video] 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Movie 2003

Summary: Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005

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

Summary: An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of his beautiful models scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are lead into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous surroundings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Disguised as Zorro, a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black, Don Diego Vega works to restore his father, the deposed Alcalde, back to power and return tax money stolen by the villanous tyrant--while finding time to romance the tyrant's beautiful niece.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: "A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001

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

Summary: A restaurateur stages a hoax rare bird sighting to save his failing business.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001

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

Summary: Gorky Park opens with the discovery of three mutilated bodies buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GOR

Summary: Bree Osborne, a pre-operative transsexual, learns she fathered a child back when she was Stanley Osborne. The wheels of fortune take Bree and her teenaged son on a cross-country trip that will change both their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

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

Summary: A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ATL

Summary: In the unfamiliar Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a gut-wrenching fight for survival. .

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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