Summary: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HISSummary: As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOUCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SOUSummary: Mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from a mental hospital, where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover, after 25 years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLISummary: Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HudSummary: A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PLESummary: Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an Orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cider 2000Summary: Film noir semi-documentary style treatment based on an actual Los Angeles Police Department case. A cop killer manages to elude detection by intercepting police radio calls and by altering his appearance. Evidence points to an alienated electronics expert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HESummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEASummary: During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WONSummary: Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PASSummary: The American Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver accepts one final mission. He has to kill Gideon no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes them both far from the comforts and codes of civilization, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SERSummary: A stock broker, who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BEFSummary: Seth is an angel who must decide if he'll forsake his immortality and become human on the chance that the woman of his dreams might love him. That woman is Maggie, a pragmatic heart surgeon who doesn't believe in angels until she meets Seth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CITSummary: The general who became a slave -- the slave who became a gladiator -- the gladiator who defied an empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2000
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Gladiator 2000Summary: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY L.A.Summary: Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SILSummary: A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NEGSummary: Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom--$3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PROSummary: Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002