Summary: An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009

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

Summary: The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOT

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Motel Hotel 2005

Summary: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2018

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

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

Summary: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: When a group of Yankee tourists take a detour and wind up in the small Southern town of Pleasant Valley, which has magically rematerialized 100 years after its destruction during the Civil War, they find themselves welcomed by the eager townsfolk as guests of honor at their centennial celebrations. Little do the Northerners know that the festivities are set to include torture, death and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR TWO

Summary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAP

Summary: Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUE

Orange, Tommy

Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORA

Orange, Tommy

Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT ORA

Summary: Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2007

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Orange, Tommy

Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ORA

Summary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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

Summary: When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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

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

Summary: Phoolan Devi was a murderer, kidnapper and living folk legend who had endured a life of rape and abuse after beng sold into marriage at the age of eleven. A spree of murders known as the Behmai Massacre to avenge the death of her lover made Devi the object of a police hunt. In prison from 1983 until 1994, she spent years being prosecuted by the Indian police, only to be turned into a legend by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004

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

Summary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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

Summary: Set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Follows the life of Polish artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF AFT

Benaron, Naomi

Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012

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

Summary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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

Summary: "Welcome to Wakaliwood, Uganda: home of "DA BEST OF DA BEST MOVIES!" and the vanguards of DIY commando cinema! Under the guidance of Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (IGG) and Alan Ssali Hofmanis, these self-taught filmmakers produce gonzo action films with budgets that rarely exceed $200 USD. AGFA is proud to bring the most reckless films in the Wakaliwood canon to home video for the first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WAK