Summary: Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Mo

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moneyball 2012

Summary: For Becky, running a TV show in New York City was the big break she dreamed of, until star co-anchors Mike and Colleen declare an all-out, on-air war. Making the show work with its cast of eccentric characters and outrageous story angles will take a major miracle, but Becky is ready to rise and outshine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Morning 2011

Hardy, Tom

Summary: A bartender finds himself in trouble with dangerous criminals after the bar he works at is robbed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Dr

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DRO

Sharma, Suraj

Summary: Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LIF

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIF RATED PG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Li

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIF

Owen, Clive

Summary: Two brothers in 1970s Brooklyn on opposite sides of the law face off as one is released from prison and gradually slips back into his criminal ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLO

Summary: When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WHI

Murray, Bill

Summary: With Great Britain facing war with Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invites the King and Queen of England to his home in upstate New York, while engaging in an affair with a distant cousin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HYD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HYD RATED R

Shannon, Michael

Summary: After a man begins having disturbing visions of storms, he begins building a shelter in his family's yard to protect his wife and daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAK

Summary: "When Dane and his little brother Lucas move from the city to the suburbs, they're in for a big surprise. Along with cute next door neighbor Julie, they unlock a trap door to a mysterious hole in their basement. Once opened, long buried secrets are unearthed and the three must confront their darkest fears in a fierce battle for survival!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Big Air Studios 2012

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HOL

Summary: Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 1984

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR RATED R

Summary: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Then he encounters police officers in a transit station. They kill him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FRU
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRU

Summary: "Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2010

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

Summary: A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEA

Summary: Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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

Summary: A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2011

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

Summary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

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 PAU

Summary: Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD L

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIN RATED R

Summary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAR

Harris, Ed

Summary: A sheriff in Arizona investigates an illegal Mexican immigrant for the murder of the former sheriff's wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fr

Summary: Widower Andrew Shepherd decides it's time to get back into the dating game, but there is one slight problem, he is the President of the United States. He falls for an environmental lobbyist and is lofted even more into the public eye.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE AME

Summary: Bill and Kate hopelessly try to find some hint of an explanation after finding out that their only son committed a mass shooting at his university before taking his own life. They struggle numbly through the funeral, the media onslaught, and the awkward pity from relatives and friends. Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEA

Summary: "Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock ... becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma ... as he sets out to make the film"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA HIT