Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray Movie PhilomenaSummary: Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAMSummary: It is a time of both splendor and despair for the deeply divided French nation where the self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people starve. Believing he is all-powerful, Louis fears no one -- except the one person who could bring an end to his absolute power: the man he condemned to wear an iron mask and be imprisoned for life. But when the king's selfish...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FULLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADSummary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOUSummary: Over the years Tsar Nicholas cannot satisfy the needs of the people or prevent Russia's entry into World War I, and the Empress falls under the spell of the evil monk, Rasputin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NICSummary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUFSummary: In the international world of classical music, Lydia Tár is widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. As her accolades grow, so does her hubris, bleeding into her personal life where it eventually brings reprecussions into her career and reputation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA TARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TARSummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Woodlawn 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOO RATED PGSummary: Inspired by actual events, follows notorious contract killer Richard Kuklinski from his early days in the mob until his arrest for the murder of more than one hundred men. Appearing to be living the American dream as a devoted husband and father, in reality Kuklinski was a ruthless killer-for-hire. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium 2013