Summary: Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CHISummary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROGSummary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYCSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRASummary: Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOHSummary: Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SERSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: After sixteen years of working a thankless job at Life magazine, Walter Mitty is assigned to travel the world to track down the quintessential cover image from their star photographer for the magazine's final issue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SECSummary: The next installment in the blockbuster franchise follows vampire death dealer Selene as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: Years after he fought his way out of prison, Ray Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from to save his friend from the prison's brutal human battleground, known as Hades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EsSummary: On the run from dirty cops who committed murder deep in the woods, a lone hiker finds an unlikely ally in retired cop Jack Harris. The pair must stick together to survive the wilderness and the human predators within it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OUTSummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHASummary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: James Bond turns renegade to hunt down a master criminal. James leaves the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter is brutally attacked by drug lord Franz Sanchez.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LICSummary: James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
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 MOOSummary: When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO RATED PGSummary: 007 James Bond's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As James unravels the astonishing truth, he must fight deadly assassins, sexy femme fatales and even a poisonous tarantula. With the help of CIA agent, Felix Leiter, and the beautiful Honey Ryder, he searches for the headquarters of Dr. No. The doctor is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DR.Summary: A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dunkirk 2017Summary: The "Spider-Man" trilogy features the three critically- acclaimed "Spider-Man" films directed by Sam Raimi. Follow Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) in these three adventures as he swings into action fighting super-villains Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman and Venom and wins the heart of Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SPISummary: James Bond travels to San Francisco to thwart an industrialist intent on creating a microchip monopoly by flooding Silicon Valley. Features Roger Moore in the role of the MI6 super spy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2012