Summary: Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: All-American co-ed: With enrollment on the decline, girls college Mar Brynn needs notoriety to promote their school. Their target: the boys in Quinceton College's Zeta fraternity, who are publicly tarnished as "least likely to succeed". Out for revenge, Zeta plans to embarrass Mar Brynn by having one of their boys pose as a girl. Starring songstress Frances Langford and former silent Our Gang...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1941

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COM

Summary: A documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, focusing on a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where a young man was killed during violence between the crowd and the Hell's Angels hired to "keep order." A disturbing portrait of one aspect of the rock and drug culture of the late 60's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GIM

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 TOP

Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REV

Summary: 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 MUS

Summary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CRO

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3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO

Summary: A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SIL

Summary: 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 TAL

Summary: 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 BEC

Summary: Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013

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

Summary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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

Summary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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

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

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ARG

Summary: A rock music group is catapulted into fame almost overnight when their signature song hits the top of the chart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NO

Summary: 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 ALM

Summary: 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 HUN

Summary: Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SAP

Summary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009

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

Summary: A musical comedy based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy. When Eddie's wife dies, leaving him with seven children, he puts the kids into the act and takes the show on the road.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Brentwood Home Video 2000

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 1949

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEV

Summary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARM

Summary: In the wake of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes, five lethal experts are assembled by the Israeli intelligence agency to execute eleven known terrorists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc 2004

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

Summary: Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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

Summary: Americans have been taken hostage in Iran, but in the seedy dying discos of 1979 Los Angeles, a naive young immigrant is hostage to his own American dream. Houshang, or "Hank" when he is pretending to be Italian to get past prejudiced doormen, sees the disco club circuit as his ticket to a better life. Houshang's ambition leads to a chaotic and desperate journey of lost identity, forbidden love...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinéma Libre Distribution 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AME