Summary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NATSummary: Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Secretariat 2011Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PGSummary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEASummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEASummary: Ken McLaughlin has a new horse, Crown Jewel, with whom he hopes to win enough money to help his father raise money for Goose Bar Ranch's financial crisis. Crown Jewel's heart is not in the race, since she is more captivated by the stallion Thunderhead.
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 GRESummary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIRSummary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Rudy 2000Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUD RATED PGSummary: Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Finding 2000Summary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PICSummary: Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OPESummary: Jess and Moss are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer, they venture out on a journey exploring deep secrets, identity, and hopes for the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Baxter Bros. 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESSummary: Katy dreams of filling her father's shoes by taking over their ranch, while her father wants better for her. When she finds and tries to tame a wild horse, she learns how alike she and this stallion truly are.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLISummary: The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUE
Summary: After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabethtown 2006Summary: The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: In 1965, the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse is recruited into the hunt for a missing schoolgirl and finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDSummary: Follow the rise, fall and rise again of promoter Tony Wilson and the wild rave culture he brought to England and the rest of the world. Pulsates with the rhythmic energy from the post punk movement through the evolution of rave music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie to the secrets of her late father's past. She takes to the countryside, where horses run free, true love really exists, and Natalie discovers her own past and an enlightened future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Thicker 2006Summary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999