Summary: 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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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROASummary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014Summary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEESummary: 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 IDASummary: 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: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: Kev, a fugitive who has committed a violent crime, takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. As father and son journey into the outback and an unknown future, Chook is forced to make the choice between what is right and the love of his father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINSummary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHEVianello, Yle
Summary: Thirteen year-old Marta recently moved to Southern Italy with her family and struggles to fit in with the unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic Church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CORSummary: Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Short 2014Summary: Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Magic 2014Kendrick, Anna
Summary: After a dramatic break-up, a woman moves in with her brother and his family near Christmas and her brother's wife discovers that she could be a good influence on her career and life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2014