Summary: In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUSummary: Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPIPutnam, Tom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Callbox LLC 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BURSummary: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOMSummary: The Tardis materializes on the runway of Gatwick Airport, where Polly witnesses a murder only to be kidnapped before she can report it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCLinney, Laura
Summary: Two adult children of an elderly, cantankerous man must come together to care for their father despite that fact they have not spoken to him or each other in years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVSummary: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HANSummary: A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRBSummary: Revolutionary forces of Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara prepare to move in on the city of Havana. The owner of a nightclub struggles to hold together his family and the love of a woman. The culture vanishes and the people are transformed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lost 2006Various
Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOCSummary: Paul is in his mid-'20s and is a man with little in the way of ambition. Among his friends, Paul has a reputation as a ladies' man, but he's not at all good with long-term relationships. Deep down, Paul senses that he would like to lead a different life, and that feeling becomes all the more clear when he meets Noel. Paul and Noel soon fall in love, but for Paul this is a different sort of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLSummary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR NOT RATEDSummary: Caroline just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and provide a better home for her handful of a son, Toby. When she moves to Seattle and meets Dwight, she thinks she's got it made. Toby, however, feels differently after spending time with Dwight while away from Caroline. Dwight seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but to do so he emotionally, verbally, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDASummary: A legendary depression-era hobo and his young accomplice battle a sadistic railroad worker in a determined bid to hitch a ride.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EMPSummary: A party girl decides she has had enough of the wild lifestyle and returns to her childhood home, where she finds security with a new husband but soon finds herself in an affair with his best friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLAEfron, Zac
Summary: A soldier in Iraq unwittingly evades the path of a falling bomb when he stops to look at a photograph on the ground, leading him on a search for the woman whose picture saved his life when he returns home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lucky 2012Summary: Guided by a determined Navy psychiatrist, a troubled sailor embarks on a personal, emotionally inspiring journey to confront his past and connect with the family he never knew. Inspired by the true life experiences of Antwone Fisher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANTSummary: A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHISummary: A comatose five-year-old girl travels through a darkly surreal industrial wonderland, haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears. Through her fear, she must follow her mother's voice -- staticky and cutting out -- to find her way back to consciousness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024