Summary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: 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: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersSummary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MYGordon-Levitt, Joseph
Summary: An assassin known as a "Looper" discovers that he must kill his future self sent back 30 years in time by mobsters.
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 LOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LOOSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNGordon-Levitt, Joseph
Summary: A bike messenger in Manhattan attempts to deliver a mysterious letter to Chinatown while evading a malevolent detective who wants to intercept it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PRESummary: Hired by an international cartel, soldier of fortune Jamie Shannon (Walken) organizes a strike force to wrest control of an impoverished but mineral rich west African nation from a madman. An intricate game ensues where double cross is the rule: Shannon and his handpicked men find themselves caught between the cartel and the dictator they were to depose. To escape this dilemma, Shannon and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOGSummary: The biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN WYACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: DVD WYASummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An undercover cop gets pulled into a gang that races cars late at night through city streets when the leader is suspected of stealing electronic equipment. The cop is swept up by the adrenaline rush of the race and falls for the gang leader's sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAASummary: Every night is a championship race on the turbo-charged streets of Los Angeles. Dominic and Johnny are rivals who are the boldest, the baddest, the best, and turn their challengers into dust. Along comes a challenger. Dominic and Johnny know that he is tough and fast, what they don't know is that he is a speed demon detective trying to bust up a theft ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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Summary: April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FUR1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FUR
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FuCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fury 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RATED RSummary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCSummary: Shows events that led to the conflict in 1877 between the Nez Percés and the U.S. Army. Chief Joseph led the 300 Nez Percé braves, their women and children in the historic running battle against ten separate commands of the Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Total-Content 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: Utilizing historical documents and interviews with scholars and churchmembers, this multi-part PBS documentary chronicles the formation and development of the Mormon Church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MORSummary: Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RULSummary: When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. Is this Fogg's way of avoiding arrest? The detective following him believes so, and his butler is becoming unsure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AROSummary: Jack Harper is the lone security repairman stationed on a desolate, nearly ruined future Earth. When he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft, her arrival triggers a nonstop chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows, and leaves humanity's fate in his hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OBLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OBLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OBL RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI OBLSummary: When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY OTHSummary: When a flood of lawless gunmen invades his once peaceful town, Marshal Cass Silver knows it's up to him to force them out. But the only chance he might have is to gain the help of a gunslinger named Thad, who wrongly believes the marshal is responsible for his father's death. To save the town, Silver will have to earn the aid, and trust, of a man sworn to send him to his grave!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN PROSummary: Jake and Elwood Blues, two hoodlum brothers searching for redemption, set out to locate and reenlist the members of their defunct rhythm and blues band in order to raise some honest money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on actual events. When the commander of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Siciliy in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Home Entertainment 2012