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Moretz, Chloe GraceSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: Hearing that her father is suffering with dementia, Dana, a thirtyish Seattle ballet teacher, reluctantly returns to her childhood home on Orcas Island to discover that it is threatened with foreclosure. To save the farm and the family, she must tame her mother's dangerous Friesian horse and ride him to victory in the year's biggest dressage competition. She must also reconcile her warring...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MarVista Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DARSummary: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family AnnieSummary: 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoSummary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: 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 Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Over 2,000 passengers and crew are celebrating New Year's Eve aboard the luxury cruise ship 'Poseidon' on the open sea. Without warning, at midnight, a rogue wave hundreds of feet high, slams into the ship and rolls it upside down. Most of the passengers and crew are killed outright, but several hundred remain alive in the ballroom, where the party was being held. Realizing their only hope of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poseidon 2006Summary: An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QueenCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUE RATED PG-13Summary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: 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: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUBSummary: A young boy, Ali, loses his sister Zahra's school shoes. In order to stay out of trouble, the two come up with a plan to share Ali's shoes, but they must keep it a secret from their parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHISummary: Okwe is an illegal immigrant living in London. He was a doctor in his homeland and now works two jobs - during the day as a taxi driver, at night as a hotel desk clerk. When a prostitute tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. Using his previous knowledge of medicine, he begins to solve the case of where the heart came from and soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DIRSummary: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer. Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful Italian country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: When an Iranian widow takes over her husband's truck stop restaurant after his death, she must hide in the kitchen so she doesn't cause a scandal. Now her brother-in-law wants to be with her for the cafe, while a customer just wants to be with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ASPSummary: Friends, Kurt and Mark, reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, a long series of carefree adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OLDSummary: An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAPSummary: There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BloSummary: CIA operative Roger Ferris is on a covert mission. He is working in Jordan and searching for terrorists who have been bombing civilian targets. Ferris uncovers information on the Islamist mastermind Al-Saleem. He devises a plan to infiltrate Al-Saleem's terrorist network with the help of his Langley boss, Ed Hoffman. Ferris enlists the help of the Chief of Jordanian Intelligence, Hani Salaam on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BODSummary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARG RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ARGSummary: Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisor must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer, Walter Raleigh, captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies and secure her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabeth 2008Summary: A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010