Summary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRESummary: Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOvie Harriet 2020Summary: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIRSummary: First Sgt. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas. His wife, the senior editor for the New York Times, relates the story of their relationship to their son as he grows up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOUSummary: Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOXEjiofor, 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
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12 YCopies Available at Woodmere
2 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: This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Post 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POSTSummary: The incredible true story of the spy who defied her government to stop a war. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on UN council members to force the vote for the invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world rush into war. Gun makes the decision to leak the memo to the press, igniting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OFF1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OFF
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OFFSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUBSummary: 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 THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THASummary: Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 15Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 15:17Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FIFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIFSummary: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HID RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hidden 2017Summary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESBoseman, Chadwick
Summary: The story of Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer who became the first African American to be Solicitor General and a Supreme Court justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARSummary: Based on journalist Kim Barker's memoir "The Taliban shuffle: strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Whiskey 2016Garfield, Andrew
Summary: Follows the rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist, Tammy Faye Bakker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EYECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EYESummary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONTHanks, Tom
Summary: Tells the story of the friendship between the host of television series "Mister Rogers' neighborhood" Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEASummary: The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost, on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself; of one of the most dangerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie First 2019Summary: Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Can 2019Summary: On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FILSummary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023