Summary: The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 8Summary: Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man" when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect, and dignity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: In an attempt to recapture the happiness she knew in the past, an elderly woman journeys back to the small town where she raised her children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRISummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRSummary: In turn-of-the century Morocco, a sheik kidnaps a feisty American woman and her children, holding them hostage until President Roosevelt sends in the troops to free them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: The true dauphin is kidnapped and imprisoned, but the villains fail to take into account D'Artagnan and the three musketeers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROSummary: "A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her unconscious mind."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WHISummary: Zulu is set in Africa in 1879 only hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A small group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of wave after wave of Zulus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor] 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZULSummary: City-boy Ren McCormick finds he has been moved into an uptight Midwestern town where the local officials have banned dancing and rock 'n roll music. Ren revolts with his best friend Willard and the minister's daughter. A timeless struggle between innocent teenage pleasures and adults' need for rigid morality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOO RATED PGSummary: A tortured love affair ends between Heathcliff and Cathy when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE WUTSummary: Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town past a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIFSummary: Escapees from a Confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MysSummary: Optimistic hobo Isa, with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working factory jobs and selling cards. After she loses a garment-factory job, her coworker Marie lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters, an apartment belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter. Isa goes through two tempestous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRESummary: The classic story of the flight of Huck Finn and the slave Jim down the Mississippi, and their encounters with the world at large.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADVSummary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that will determine the fate of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHRSummary: The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her life, Nell's life will never be the same again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013