Summary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: The ever-optimistic koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet, all in the glittering entertainment capital of the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SINSummary: What a whirl, what a world! High schooler Richard Samuels lucks into a role in a daring Broadway production of Julius Caesar. Cues, staging, rehearsals, romance, rivalries; he has a lot to learn. And the first thing to learn is never upstage Mercury Theatre's genius director, 22-year-old Orson Welles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ME1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ME
Summary: When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASSummary: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOYSummary: The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POOSummary: Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLSummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEASummary: "Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR RATED GSummary: Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIVSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROGSummary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DASummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INGere, Richard
Summary: A young boy who is ill is taken on a magical adventure where he meets New York Yankee legends, both past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Hunter, Holly
Summary: After nearly dying in a car crash, a man is obsessed with recreating accidents and having sex in cars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRASummary: Directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on sixteen mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SLASummary: Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican official, who, under threat of death from the Gestapo, saved prisoners of war and others from the German forces occupying Rome during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018