Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD LordSummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: In season five, $1.8 million in gold coins is missing, an elusive precious diamond is about to be found, and Neal Caffrey has a new handler, and a new love interest. But all is fair in love and crime, and the closer Neal gets to the mysterious Rebecca Lowe, the greater the danger for everyone in his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WHISummary: A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of babes, all bets are off. He becomes involved in an automotive duel of epic proportions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2007
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEASummary: This episode interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It explores why Darwin's "dangerous idea" might matter even more today than it did in his own time, and reveals how science might be used to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DARSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 3Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VICSummary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Herbie 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERSummary: 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: Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real-life TV chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye, and taste buds, of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton, and they soon both write a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Love's 2011Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: Secret agent Flint finds himself going up against a secret society of women plotting to take over the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE INSummary: First permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the Pilgrims arrived in 1565. America's Untold Story uncovers the story of America's past that never made it into textbooks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A new mockumentary that looks at the exciting world of local government. Examines the mundane but necessary ways that people interact with their government, and asks why it's frequently so complicated - standing in line at the DMV, applying for home construction permits, or trying to get the city to fix a pothole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pa 1Summary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZELSummary: Annie is left in the care of her elderly and out-of-date grandfather and is sure her summer is doomed. When her attempt at escape goes awry, she meets new friends who help her connect with her grandfather and bring the power of forgiveness into her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY COMSummary: The Behavioral Analysis Unit's founding member Agent David Rossi returns with his elite team of FBI profilers to stop the country's most twisted criminal minds before they strike again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRISummary: Bobby J. Brown exposes countless dark secrets of the Hall of Fame band Parliament Funkadelic. Members open up about the unorthodox methods in which they were paid, heavily exploited, and the creativity behind this unique genre of music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TEASummary: For gorgeous and smart Diana there is no choice but to work her way through college. It is difficult to resist the money that the club owner of the Players Club offers her to strip. She avoids the pitfalls of dancing by trusting no one except the respectable and funny DJ. But her naive cousin joins the club and gets into all sorts of trouble. Diana has to figure a way out for both of them...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PLASummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006