Summary: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Then he encounters police officers in a transit station. They kill him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FRU
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRU

Summary: Left wheelchair-bound by a sniper's bullet, long-time San Francisco Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside, becomes the head of his own special police unit. Operating from a specially equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Ironside fights crime using intelligence and action. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger, and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IRO

Summary: At the center of this hard-hitting television drama is Lt. Mike Stone, assigned to the homicide detail of the San Francisco Police Dept., and his young, energetic partner, Inspector Steve Keller. In this volume, Stone and Keller confront a hired assassin, a ruthless bank robber, and a trio of escaped convicts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STR

Summary: Set in the ruthless world of San Francisco in the late 1800s, rival Chinatown crime families are pitted against each other, against the police, and against an overtly racist white working class.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WAR

Summary: "Rizwan, an Indian man with a unique way of looking at the world, moves to San Francisco and meets a vivacious single mother named Mandira. They form a special bond and fall in love against all odds, but fate and tragedy conspire to tear them apart. That's when Rizwan embarks on a remarkable journey across America to win back the love of his life"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MY

Summary: A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ZOD

Summary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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

Summary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLO

Summary: The dynamic relationship between the longtime cop-turned-homicide detective and his whip-smart protǧ ťakes a serious turn as they pursue an ever-widening circle of devious prison-gang kingpins, murderous land developers, female vigilantes and narcs gone bad. But whether it's calming turf wars or chasing leads, they're committed to keeping the Golden Gate city a safer place for all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Paramount Pictures] 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STR

Summary: Twenty year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Steve Keller who has a lot to learn about being a police detective on the Streets of San Francisco.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STR

Summary: A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CHA

Summary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIM

Summary: Lt. Col. Caldwell and Police Inspector Jay Austin don't like each other because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years before. Now these two enemies are forced to team up to solve a brutal murder at The Presidio military compound.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD PRE

Summary: When a magnitude nine earthquake leaves California in ruins, a helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way to San Francisco to save their only daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie San

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

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

Summary: John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GOO

Summary: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEN

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

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

Summary: Amy, Ty , Jack and Tim sacrifice Christmas at Heartland to save starving horses trapped by and avalanche in a remote mountain area, in the process bringing together and town and a family divided by a long-ago tragedy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2011

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday H

Summary: Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

Summary: Errol Flynn is one of Hollywood's greatest leading men: a lusty and vivacious actor who lived a swashbuckling life of glamour and scandal on and off the screen. Btu few remember the icon's last May-December romance that shocked a nation. It's a sensational, unforgettable look at Hollywood's golden age and the desire for fame and acceptance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015

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

Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VAL

Summary: In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist and recent bike accident victim Steve Lopez more than his banged-up face, was his pressing need for story ideas. He soon discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a skid row schizophrenic street musician, who possesses extraordinary talent - even though he only has half-broken instruments to play. Inspired by Nathaniel's story, Lopez writes an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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

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

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