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Action and adventure films Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 Drama Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 Teatro Feature films Feature films United States Imagination Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Peter Pan (Fictitious character) Drama Peter Pan (Personaje literario) Teatro Video recordings for the hearing impairedFilter By Subjects
Action and adventure films Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 Drama Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 Teatro Feature films Feature films United States Imagination Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Peter Pan (Fictitious character) Drama Peter Pan (Personaje literario) Teatro Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: 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 DEASummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RSummary: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONSummary: Follow five clueless buffoons as they plan to strike a blow on their own turf, showing that while terrorism is supposed to be about ideology, it can also be about idiots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alamo Drafthouse Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOU
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF FoHarris, Rachael
Summary: After her husband suffers a stroke, a devout childless Christian woman sets out on a trip to find his illegitimate adult ex-convict son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NATHarris, 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 FrSummary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwSummary: Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POM RATED PG-13Summary: A young man's spiritual odyssey, filmed on location in Rishikesh and Bharatpur, and based on Hesse's novella.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIDSummary: Commander Agamemnon stands ready to launch his infamous thousand ships to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy. As the wind refuses to blow, a priest condemns him for sacrilege, and the powerful general is pressured to sacrific his daughter to save the states. Threatened and tormented, Agamemnon is faced with sending his child like a lamb to the slaugher and betraying his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A film about a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A businessman becomes the subject of a criminal investigation when a story about him is purposely "leaked" to an investigative reporter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A remarkable portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman. Earthy, sexy, romantic, filled with laughter and warmth, it's a joyous celebration of simple pleasures and enduring passions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANTSummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
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 GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MULSummary: 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 FORSummary: Working as a hostess in a trendy bar, a young beauty finds herself mercilessly torn between two men: Hao-hao, her neurotic and jealous live-in boyfriend, and Jack, the mysterious and enterprising gangster who may be her undoing. Chronicles the fleeting, finite blooming of a young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MILSummary: Meet McKenna Brooks, a determined and confident young gymnast, in this all-new, modern-day adventure. McKenna is on track to make the regional competitive gymnastics team, but off track in school, where she's suddenly struggling to keep up. When her teacher suggests a tutor, she's embarrassed and desperate to keep it a secret from her friends. Then a bad fall at the gym sidetracks her from her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMSummary: "We are the Army of Two!" So begins the video diary of Andre and Cal, two ordinary, alienated high school students who have meticulously planned a "big-ass mission" that will shock and terrify their community. They have officially declared war, stockpiled their weapons, and set the day for destruction. Now, "let the countdown begin." The two teenagers decide to stage a Columbine-style assault...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ZERSummary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2011