Summary: Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: Katie Lapp is a beautiful Amish girl who has always felt like something in her life was missing. But she just may find out what that is when a mysterious 'Englisher' comes to Lancaster County hoping to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption nineteen years ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family ShunningCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHUSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FRASummary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD INGSummary: An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family KingCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KINSummary: An Indian woman's visions and a geologist's investigation of an earthquake come together to reveal secrets about the atrocities that took place at a Native American boarding school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLDSummary: Takes you from the terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Mexico (where waves are created by massive oil supertankers) to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Told trough the voices of legends, pros, and everyday surfers alike, it is not a film just for surfers, but for anyone with an appreciation for sport and an inkling of what it means to be "stoked."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STESummary: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RULMurray, 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 HYDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HYDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HYD RATED RSummary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CANSummary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's 2011Summary: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY SNOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED PG-13Summary: Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ILOSummary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO
Summary: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Up 2010Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UP RATED RSummary: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THASummary: Sharpshooter Quigley travels to western Australia, only to find himself saddled with a half-loco lady, and locked in a lethal battle with a wealthy rancher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Quigley 2001Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN QUISummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.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 FRU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRU
Summary: A tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a tangled web of wealth, corruption, passion and betrayal in 1860s London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005