Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STO

Summary: Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2006

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

Bolger, Sarah

Summary: In 1963 Yokohama, Japan, a friendship begins between two high school students, but a secret from their past emerges and threatens to pull them apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FRO

Summary: Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, is troubled high school student Luke Shapiro who is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAC

Summary: The heartwarming true story of a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station everyday and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Even after his master passed away, he continued to return to the same spot at the station every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits he touched many lives and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAC

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Hachi

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

Summary: A stunningly shot meditation on love and loss, New York newlyweds peter and Chloe fall into marital crisis while on a research vessel en route to Antarctica. As romantic bliss sours, Chloe takes comfort in the company of the ship's captain, a man who has good reason for setting himself adrift. As they sail towards the end of the Earth, filmmaker Scott Cohen's astonishingly assured, elegantly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: High school soccer prodigy Sara Davis juggles life, love and sports on her way to becoming the youngest player ever selected to the U.S. National Team. Conflicts arise as Sara deals with her over-zealous sports dad, a free-spirited boyfriend and her hectic existence in the social quicksand commonly known as high school.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: A taut thriller about the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the military. Both a politico-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends, Time Of Favor raises important questions of faith to one's religion, duty to one's nation, and love for oneself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002

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

Summary: Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUN

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Juno 2008

Summary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRE

Summary: Set during Gandhi's rise to power, Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Scary tale of a series of grisly murders in Manhattan, and the rumpled cop who finally discovers who (or what) is responsible.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WOL

Krasinski, John

Summary: After a man agrees to host an aspiring filmmaker in his home, he forms a relationship with the young woman that affects the rest of his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: After gambling away his freedom, one king becomes slave to another, and uses his lowered position to expose corruption and win the love of his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008

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

Summary: In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UGE
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC FOREIGN UGE

D'Arcy, James

Summary: After being faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse, a group of college students at an international school in Jakarta must determine which ten of them will take shelter underground and reboot the human race.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films (usa) Llc 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: After merciless taunting from classmates and abuse at the hand of her mother, Carrie's anger, and her telekinetic powers, are unleashed. And when a prom prank goes horribly wrong, events spiral out of control until the terrifying conclusion of this powerful, pulse-quickening horror story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

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