Summary: It all ends with a bang! In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin, Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner, Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of "Heisenberg" gains steam, leading up...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRE RATED R

Summary: Franȯis and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLA

Summary: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, and the entire crew from the popular MTV show return with the most insane tricks and pranks to date.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JAC

Roth, Vanessa

Summary: A look at the American education system through the eyes of four teachers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME

Summary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIG

Summary: An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. A dramatic tale of human potential and transformation that closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Freedom Behind Bars Productions 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DHA

Summary: Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2007

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEN

Summary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIT

Vreeland, Diana

Summary: Documents the life and career of Diana Vreeland, one of the most influential women of twentieth-century fashion and culture.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIA

Summary: A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP

Summary: Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BLI
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLI

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blind 2010

Summary: Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BAR

Summary: About Los Angeles elementary school teacher and winner of the American Teacher Award, Rafe Esquith, who teaches his students to understand and perform Shakespeare as a motivational teaching tool and unique method of education.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOB

Summary: Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife dead of heart failure. Police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contacted the FBI. Only hours after his wife's tragic death, he found himself detained as a suspected "bioterrorist," as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suites scoured his home, seizing his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STR

Summary: At the heart of this true story is Hossein Sabzian, an unemployed movie buff who finds himself mistaken for the enigmatic director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The misunderstanding takes on a life of its own and Sabzian ends up in jail where his trial is filmed by Kiarostami.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 1990

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLO

Summary: Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas from an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOM

Summary: This documentary exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system. Takes a nonpartisn, clear-eyed look at the secrecy, cronyism, and incompetence of elections in present-day America as it captures a citizen's movement intent on taking back elections and democracy itself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAC

Summary: "Elements of Shakespeare's stories are woven into this beautiful and enchanting tale that details the beginning, end and rebirth of a love affair between William and Venus, a member of the mystical Native American Lightning Clan. Though society, cultural circumstances, and family pressures conspire to keep them apart, a young William and Venus devise ways to meet and strengthen the bond between...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family From 2013

Summary: Ten-year-old Paul slowly begins to realize that his mother is an addict and, with the help of a local waitress, tries to rescue his mother from her boyfriend/dealer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Indican Pictures 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PUR

Summary: A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantánamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROA

Summary: After not being able to recall the time he spent on an Israeli Army mission during the Lebanon War, Ari attempts to unravel the mystery by traveling around the world to interview old friends and comrades. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, his memory begins to return in illustrations that are surreal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAL
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAL
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAL

Summary: "Shot entirely in Siam, the film tells the story of a farmer and his family who have settled a small patch of land on the edge of the jungle. Their existence is a constant struggle against the many wild animals around, "--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHA