Summary: 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 Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic GrapesCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRASummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks, Washington to live with her father. She begins her junior year in high school and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen. He holds a dark secret which is only known by his family. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for, a true soul mate. But he knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TWICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWI RATED PG-13Summary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: During World War II, a group of American POWs are imprisoned the German POW camp: Stalag 17. When two prisoners are killed during an escape attempt, they realize that there is a spy among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAWilliams, Robin
Summary: A divorced man takes a job in disguise as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRSSummary: A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Picture 2002
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic ToSummary: Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked and raped by a gang of thugs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DEASummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
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 SNASummary: Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegGee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMMSmith, Maggie
Summary: A Scottish schoolmistress is a bad influence on her students.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRIHawke, Ethan
Summary: Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CONSummary: Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2007McKenna, Virginia
Summary: Based on a true story of a couple who raise a lion cub and then set her free when she reaches adulthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BORSummary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Bishop'sCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BisSummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: An aging ex-vaudeville child star initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled sister, a former movie-queen of the 1930's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WHASummary: In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000