Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: "While vacationing in Morocco, Ben and Jo McKenna are suddenly immersed in a dangerous situation after a French spy dies in Ben's arms. Discovering that their son has been kidnapped and taken to England, the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of espionage, assassinations and terror. Soon, all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth that leads to a chilling climax...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER MANSummary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MANSummary: In this Christmas classic a man is saved from a suicide attempt when his guardian angel shows him how important he is to the people who love him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IT"SStewart, James
Summary: The story of Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic ocean.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPIKarloff, Boris
Summary: There is a mad butler in a house where travelers stranded by a storm seek refuge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 1999
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLDSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREStewart, James
Summary: Broke and depressed, George Bailey contemplates suicide, but is brought back from the edge by an angel who shows him the impact he has made on the lives of others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE IT'SSummary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GORSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERASummary: U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRUSummary: Kirk and other members of the crew of the original Enterprise attend the launching of the new Enterprise. The ship receives a distress call and they must try to rescue two ships engulfed in a ribbon of energy. Among those saved are Soran and Guinan. Kirk is killed in the process of saving the Enterprise from destruction. Four generations later, Picard receives a distress call and rescues Soran....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1998
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: A former Union soldier brokers peace with the Apaches in 1870 Arizona, but still faces opposition from the U.S. military and other tribes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BROSummary: Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) at the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise is one of the franchise's most prominent and beloved captains. With his crew, Captain Picard strives against foes of all kinds, from dangerous alien races to cyborgs to even himself. His thrilling adventures in space and time are presented in Blu-ray high definition to bring you four films--Star Trek: Generations,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures Corp. 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV STASummary: An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Studios 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Manchester 2017Summary: In August, 1892 Lizzie Borden is famously charged with the murder of her stepmother and father. It causes a huge media sensation, perhaps the first example of a tabloid court case. But what really happened on that night? Did Lizzie really do it? What happened in her quietly idyllic Massachusetts life that unfurled this chain of events? Did her father's strict hand send her down this treacherous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY HOLSummary: In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, who is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become normal, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and Jailbreak. Together, these unlikely heroes embark on an epic app-venture through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the code that will fix Gene!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD EMO RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EMOSummary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMSummary: "Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019