Summary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DEASummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devestating effects of alcoholism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOSSummary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
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: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2007Summary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: Comedy film about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who discovers her lover is a a Shiite terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: 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: Cpl. Eddie Birdlace is out to party hearty with his pals on their last night in San Francisco before shipping out to Vietnam. They make a wager called the Dogfight, where each Marine puts in $50 and the guy who finds the most unattractive date wins. Birdlace finds Rose, an "ugly duckling" who joins him in a night of life-transforming impact.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOGSummary: "When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to receive a Medal of Honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Courage 2000Summary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: November, 1999. A peaceful demonstration to stop the World Trade Oraganization talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared by the Mayor of Seattle. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire of civil liberties and keeping the peace are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a SWAT riot officer on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMOSummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMISummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: Back in the late '80s, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, decades past his prime, he barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. He faces health problems that may end his wrestling career and is attempting to come to terms with his life outside the ring. He wants to reconcile with the daughter he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRESummary: Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: 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: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Tom Dobbs makes an offhand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007