Summary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHOSummary: A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY RIOMore, Kenneth
Summary: An authentic depiction of the tragedy of the sinking of the cruise ship Titanic, in which 1500 people died.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGHonore, Christophe
Summary: Follows the lives of three friends living in Paris who begin a playful threesome until tragedy strikes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVPinon, Dominique
Summary: In a rickety apartment building, a sweet-natured clown becomes the catalyst in the lives of the unusual tenants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DELSummary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARMoretz, Chloe Grace
Summary: Two high school students investigate the death of their classmate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOVToure, Nakhane
Summary: When Xolani, a quiet, sensitive, closeted factory worker returns home to be a guide in his tribe's coming-of-age circumcision ritual in the mountains, one of the initiates discovers his secret relationship with another guide, putting both of them at risk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOUMoore, Julianne
Summary: After her husband's death, a doctor is introduced to a man with multiple personalities and discovers that several of his personalities have been murder victims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIXMoore, Julianne
Summary: Six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a vicious custody battle between her parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Media Services Inc 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHAMoore, Julianne
Summary: A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Still 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STI RATED PG-13Moore, Julian
Summary: When the manager of a financially strained orphanage learns of a mysterious and generous grant, she travels from Calcutta to New York to meet the benefactor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AFTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOOSummary: Screen legends Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance in one of the most timeless holiday classics of all time. Featuring the Academy Award-winning song, "White Christmas", Crosby plays a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. Astaire plays his former partner and rival in love. Follow the two talented pals as they find themselves competing for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSICALS HOLSummary: Mariana brings her two children from Colombia to New York to reunite with her husband, only to be abandoned by him. Desperate and alone, Mariana must find a way to survive and care for her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ENTSummary: Life imitates art as a French new wave-obsessed film student finds his muse in a mysterious actress that both he and his best friend fall in love with. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage, the three end up in a dangerous situation that leaves one of them fighting for his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PREShearer, Moira
Summary: A rising star ballerina is torn between an idealistic composer who she loves and a perfectionist impresario to whom she owes her career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Gleeson, Brendan
Summary: A young boy in medieval Ireland must brave the enchanted forest and its mythical creatures to help the master illuminator complete his magical book which will bring enlightenment to all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SECSummary: A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2004