Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

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

Summary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAN

Grant, Cary

Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TO

Clooney, George

Summary: When his wife ends up on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King discovers she was having an affair, so he takes his two daughters on a trip to Kauai to confront the man she was seeing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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

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

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

Summary: "Another illuminating performance by Rachel Weisz and a brilliant screenplay by the distinguished British playwright David Hare make Denial one of the most powerful and riveting courtroom dramas ever made."--Rex Reed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA DEN

Summary: "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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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SEN

Summary: When Jesse, a 35-year-old New York college admissions adviser, is invited to his Midwestern alma mater to attend his favorite professor's retirement dinner, he quickly falls back in love with the university life. But when he meets 19-year-old student Zibby, the daughter of his professor's friends, he suddenly finds himself caught in a moral dilemma: does he pursue a relationship with this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIB
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Liberal 2012

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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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY REP

Summary: The story is simple: a quartet of college kids head out to a cabin in the woods and stumble across a dusty old manuscript that conjures demons. "Equinox" is noteworthy as a missing link of sorts between the fantastic cinema of "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Star Wars," marking the transition from artisans like Harryhausen to a new breed of special effects artist. Made by in 1967 for a mere...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Blethyn, Brenda

Summary: After the 2005 London terrorist attacks, a British Christian mother searches for her daughter while a Muslim man searches for his son, and when they meet they discover that their lives are connected.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LON

Summary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIE

Summary: Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRA

Rock, Chris

Summary: When a comedian, having become a reality TV star at the hands of his fiancée, allows a newspaper profile writer follow him around for a day, he explores the issues in his life and learns about the writer's life as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015

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

Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MID

Summary: A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Drafthouse Films 2012

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

Summary: What a whirl, what a world! High schooler Richard Samuels lucks into a role in a daring Broadway production of Julius Caesar. Cues, staging, rehearsals, romance, rivalries; he has a lot to learn. And the first thing to learn is never upstage Mercury Theatre's genius director, 22-year-old Orson Welles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ME
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ME

Summary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAW

Summary: A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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