Summary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRA

Summary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MY

Summary: A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOM

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020

Summary: 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

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHR

Summary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPE

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Watts, Naomi

Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIA RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DIA

Summary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRI

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Molly 2018

Summary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLI

Summary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014

Summary: Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail, to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s adviser become unlikely allies in the race against...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Al

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALL

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Summary: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Co

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CON

Summary: In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUN

Summary: Tells the story of Christina Noble, who leaves the slums of her childhood in Ireland to work for the welfare of the street children of Vietnam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOB

Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Summary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DES

Summary: Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOU

Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THA

Brolin, Josh

Summary: Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of local firefighters train together to become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation and are tested when an historic wildfire threatens their town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Only 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONL