Summary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: It's a race against time when a rogue prince reluctantly teams up with a rival princess to safeguard a magical dagger that gives its possessor the power to reverse time and rule the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrSummary: Examines the history of modern youth culture and the evolution of the idea of the "teenager", from the late 19th century to the beginning of the post-War period. Consists of archival film footage, diary entries, and dramatic recreations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEESummary: Captain America teams with the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, in a fight for the future of mankind. Following the cataclysmic events in New York with the Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CAPCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Captain 2014Summary: While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races, Hiccup and Toothless journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HOWSummary: Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon travel to England to find out who killed Chon's father. The killer steals the Chinese Imperial Seal that Chon's father was protecting. While they are in England, they stumble upon a conspiracy to murder the entire British royal family. Only with the help of Chon's beautiful, but deadly sister, can the trio stop the assassination and return the Imperial Seal to its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHASummary: A group of Starship Troopers hide in an abandoned outpost after battling alien bugs. The group recovers but fails to realize that more danger is ahead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRESummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Night 2007Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIG RATED PGSummary: When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Night 2009Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIG RATED PGSummary: Based on Radical Comics' Hercules by Steve Moore, this ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth. It offers the truth behind the myth by presenting the fashioning of a warrior who, for all his strength and courage, is flesh and blood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERSummary: When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Goldeneye 2007Summary: In a world plagued by demons, a young demon hunter risks everything to conquer three demons; embracing them as his disciples. But in order save the common people, the four of them must embark on a journey to the West that's full of challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOUSummary: The rousing story of lowborn William Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KNISummary: A group of freelance intelligence agents work together to steal a mysterious package, only to have a doublecross throw things into confusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RONSummary: Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Joan of ArcSummary: Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jupiter 2015Summary: Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a descendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he has to steal it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NaSummary: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ToSummary: In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lord 2002Summary: Pirate Morgan is pardoned and made the new governor of Jamaica on one condition - he must stop his fellow pirates from doing their criminal actions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLASummary: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONSummary: On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was searching for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. He is inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet, even though he annoys...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009