Summary: Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOEPike, Rosamund
Summary: The story of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who suffered an eye injury after being struck by a grenade in Sri Lanka.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINHemingway, Mariel
Summary: Mariel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, searches for a greater understanding of her family history of mental illness and suicide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films And Entertainment 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RUNSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DARSummary: Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEG RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Megan 2017Feret, Marie
Summary: Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart looks on as her younger brother Wolfgang gains fame as a musical prodigy, while she must hide her musical talent when she comes of age and is forbidden by her father from writing or playing music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOZSummary: Gone to Texas: The true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. Blue River: Based on the novel by Ethan Canin, depicts the powerful events that unfold in a small Wisconsin town driving two teenage brothers apart when later in life one brother, now a homeless derelict, arrives at the home of his brother,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: Using non-professional actors, this film follows the Gospel of Matthew to tell the story of the birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. There was no script except the Bible itself. The narrative portions are voiced by "Jesus Christ." It is presented almost as a cinema-verité documentary and without the glossy coating of the Church and Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOSSummary: 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: Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. Follow the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and make country music. At a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SHUSummary: 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 BLI1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: An exploration of an unlikely friendship that develops over a wild night in LA between a struggling journalist Danny Tate and actor Hervé Villechaize, resulting in drastic consequences for both.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: Through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, this documentary is the first to tell the life story of the Greek-American opera soprano completely in her own words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020