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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 778 Criterion collection ; 1005 Criterion collection ; 1205 Criterion collection ; 162 Criterion collection ; 514 Criterion collection ; 661 Criterion collection ; 774 Criterion collection ; 826 Criterion collection ; 949 Criterion collection ; 953Summary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASCSummary: Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEVSummary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IVASummary: Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KAMSummary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: In her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RATSummary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RIDSummary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPESummary: Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CallSummary: The beloved characters of Downton Abbey take to the big screen, and it turns out that they've got a major event to prepare for. After all, it's not every day that royalty makes an appearance. Of course, it's not long before tensions are running high. The property isn't even close to ready when it becomes clear that Carson the butler will need to come out of retirement to help run this sinking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Downton 2019Summary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COLSummary: This stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUDSummary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England. Includes Extended; Theatrical; and First Cuts. Also contains Making 'The New World', a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016