Summary: A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. She has recently lost her job as a teacher due to the lack of families with young children. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life. Reluctantly, she offers him hospitality, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEASummary: 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 DIMSummary: In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VIVBoseman, Chadwick
Summary: Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FORBoseman, Chadwick
Summary: Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Mortensen, Viggo
Summary: During the nineteen sixties, a bouncer, whose nightclub closes for renovations, finds a temporary employment as a driver for black pianist Don Shirley going on a tour into the Deep South states.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Green 2018Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: Set in 1901. After a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight from the Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BALSummary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: An Indian woman's visions and a geologist's investigation of an earthquake come together to reveal secrets about the atrocities that took place at a Native American boarding school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLDSummary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UNDSummary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PAPSummary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOvie Harriet 2020Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNDSummary: In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's speaker system to participate in a series of murderous moral decisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELSummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAISummary: "What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DESSummary: "This set includes the first three seasons of this Golden Globe and multi-Emmy Award-winning series, bringing Downton Abbey from pre-war England through the storms of World War I and into the social upheaval of England in the 1920s as the lives of its inhabitants are shaped by romance and heartbreak, ambition and betrayal."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013