Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020Ailes, Roger
Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PIE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIE
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: Dome Karukoski's stirring biopic Tom of Finland follows his life from thetrenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California, where he and his art were finally embraced amid the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Tom's story is one of love, courage and perseverance, mirroring the gay liberation movement for which his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TOMSummary: In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak, was convicted of an arson-related triple homicide and put on death row. This is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond that formed between Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, a Houston mother of two, who battled against the state for twelve years to try to save Willingham by exposing suppressed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrSummary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICSummary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECSummary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon, Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit. Featuring appearances by longtime Cave collaborators Ray Winstone, Blixa Bargeld,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TWESummary: A provocative tale of romance, lust, desire, and intrigue based on the lives of 17th century French composer Sainte Colombe and his protege, Marin Marais.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOUSummary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VINSummary: Tells the truet story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal Releasing 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONESummary: After marrying 'Willy', a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNISummary: In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMMSummary: 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