Summary: Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an ackward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Edges 2005Summary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFSummary: The true story of Solomon Perel, born in Germany in 1925 of Polish-Jewish parents, who survives World War II by concealing his true identity and by living as a Nazi for seven years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EURSummary: A highly competitive financial executive finds his career is quickly rolling downhill after he loses confidence in his abilities. When his 7-year-old daughter invites him into her fantasy world, he may find the solutions to all of his problems waiting for him. As father and daughter embark on a whirlwind journey of comic proportions, they are about to discover that sometimes all you need is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMASummary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: 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: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAWDietrich, Marlene
Summary: Young princess Catherine is forced into a marriage with Peter of Russia, and becomes the Empress Catherine the Great.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Universal 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIASmith, 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 PRISummary: Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: A tale of two brothers, one born of royal blood, one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them apart, as one becomes the ruler of a powerful empire, the other is the chosen leader of his people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: 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 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENSummary: Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an Army officer who is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family LittleSummary: Biting drama that tells the story of a ruthless, manipulatve movie producer who lets nothing and nobody stand in his way. Now he's broke and needs the help of the very people he used and betrayed on his climb to the top.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BADSummary: The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play the department store's Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIR FAMILYSummary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODSummary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORSummary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POLMcKenna, 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: Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002