Summary: 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 PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: The gambler: Kenny Rogers stars as the high-rolling frontier gambler Brady Hawkes, who has been summoned to Yuma, California, to rescue the son he never knew. Along the way, he befriends Billy Montana, a young Easterner who fancies himself a professional poker player. Brady teaches Billy a few lessons--about cards and also about life--and the two men end up forming a strong team.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WESTERN GAM

Summary: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAL

Summary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC 2016

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

Summary: Legion follows the story of David Haller, a man who believed he was schizophrenic but discovered he might be the most powerful mutant in the world. With help from a team of specialists, David harnessed his unique abilities and learned he had been haunted by a malicious parasite. Now, David is all that stands in the way of Amahl Farouk from attaining infinite and world-ending power.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: With the emergance of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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

Summary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Horn, Dara

Summary: Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years-ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOR

Bunn, Cullen

Summary: "Like a bolt from the blue, the original X-Men reunite - like never before! This time, Jean Grey is in charge! Cyclops, Iceman, Angel and Beast follow her into action, bringing mutant criminals to justice and restoring a heroic sheen to their team. But how can they do that when their new mentor is their old mentor's arch-frenemy? That's right - Magneto has joined the original X-Men! And not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 XME

Summary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAI

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

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

Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999

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

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

Summary: Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 1998

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE In RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 1998

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: Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1980

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

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