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Action and adventure films Law enforcement Texas Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Merchant mariners North Atlantic Ocean Drama Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Drama Sheriffs Texas Drama Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973 Film adaptations World War (1914-1918)Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD FantasticSummary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FANTASY HOBBakshi, Ralph
Summary: Frodo the Hobbit and his friends fight to save Middle-Earth from the Dark Power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LORSummary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: Hollywood legend Clark Gable stars in this soaring adaptation of the celebrated Jack London novel. Jack Thornton is a prospector who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When Jack buys Buck, a strong and loyal sled dog with part-wolf ancestry, their thrilling adventure through the Alaskan wilderness begins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALReilly, John C.
Summary: Follows the notorious hit men duo, the Sisters brothers, as they pursue a gold prospector in the Old West and get caught up in the Gold Rush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SiCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SISSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 33 RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORSummary: A dramatization of the story of Dan Morgan, an adventurer whose exploits during the Australian gold rush caused him to become a wanted outlaw and the object of a manhunt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Troma Entertainment Inc. 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MADHeigl, Katherine
Summary: Unemployed Stephanie Plum lands a job as a bounty hunter where her first assignment is to track down an ex-boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONESummary: Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COLSummary: A set of the first three James Bond films featuring Sean Connery as Agent 007. Each film is presented as two-discs, one with the feature film, and one with special features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series 007 Collection 2010Eastwood, Clint
Summary: Josey Wales is on the run after avenging his family's murder, and he must protect the group of people who have come to follow him; one man stands up to the corporate mining boss who is out to kill independent miners during the California gold rush; whilestruggling to keep his modern-day Wild West traveling show open, Bronco Billy meets a rich woman who seems to bring bad luck to him and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Sixteen German paratroopers are dropped on the coast of England with orders to bring Churchill back to Hitler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Eagle 2000Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ATOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ATOSummary: An English nurse and an American soldier have an affair on the Italian front during World War I; Hemingway's semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories are dramatized; a writer lies feverish and delirious from an African hunting accident wound and feels like a failure as he reflects upon his life; a group of expatriates lives in Paris pursuing love, sex, and alcohol but happiness eludes them; a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ERNSummary: Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE VONSummary: Lying on his deathbed, the aging Cheyenne Warrior, Windwalker, tells his life's story to his small grandchildren. He recounts his years as a young brave, marriage to beautiful Tashina, the blessing of having twin sons born to them, and his anguish at having Tashina die and one of the babies stolen during a raid by Crow warriors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Home Video 2003