Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KIL

Summary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO

Summary: Set in 1942, tells the story of the first B-25 crews, under the command of General Jimmy Doolittle, training for a bombing mission over Japan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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

Summary: Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COL

Qualley, Margaret

Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MY

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

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

Summary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KIT

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KIT

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Movie Kitchen 2019

Summary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIG

Summary: All Batman favorites on two discs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BAT

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

Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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

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

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Summary: Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BUT
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Butcher's

Summary: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2011

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

Summary: When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2023

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

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

Summary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Tells the story of Batman's early days, as a young Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City and launches his first endeavors at fighting injustice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BAT

Summary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILL

Summary: When a young fox and hound meet for the first time, they become friends before they know that they are supposed to be enemies; Tod and Copper's friendship is put to the test when Copper gets a chance to howl with a hound dog chorus.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FOX

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

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Fox

Summary: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIS

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MIS

Summary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUB

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PUB

Summary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLU