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Action and adventure films Biographical films Christmas England History 19th century Drama Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Drama Film adaptations France Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Western filmsSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: 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
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: 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 MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANSummary: An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family KingCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KINSummary: The life of Dora Carrington, the Victorian Era painter whose passionate life created one of England's greatest scandals. Unable to possess the one man she loves, Lytton Strachey, Carrington embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAREjiofor, Chiwetel
Summary: Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12 YCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Twelve 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED RSummary: 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 MADSummary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 323.1196 MLKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MLKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MLKSummary: 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: 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: 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 MARBancroft, Anne
Summary: Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a deformed man, who is discovered by a dedicated surgeon and is given a chance to live his last years in comfort rather than as a circus freak.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016