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African American baseball players Drama African Americans Social conditions History 20th century Drama Baseball players United States Drama Documentary films Major League Baseball (Organization) Drama Miller, Warren 1924-2018 Race discrimination United States History 20th century Drama Rodeos Drama Skis and skiing United StatesSummary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MASSummary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHASummary: After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police task force.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BanditSummary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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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 ONTSummary: Bert Kalmar always wanted to be a magician, but all it takes is a disastrous opening night to make his dream go poof! So, Kalmar moves on and finds songwriting magic with collaborator Harry Ruby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THRSummary: The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 8Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIRSummary: It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WIZSummary: J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JBoseman, Chadwick
Summary: Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoSummary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016Summary: "Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story chronicles the life and times of the legendary filmmaker who, through his annual ski films and national tours which began in the early 1950's, was a driving force in the development and promotion of the ski industry in America and throughout the world. Miller, who died in 2018 at the age of 93 while the documentary was still in production, sat with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOMCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020Summary: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED PG 13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lion 2017Boseman, Chadwick
Summary: Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FORSummary: The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLASummary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: "A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INTSummary: The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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1 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 2019Hanks, 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Beautiful 2020Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEAEjiofor, 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