Summary: Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th Century, and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Amazing 2007Summary: Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLESummary: Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulfur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BARSummary: Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RIGSummary: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs,"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLASummary: Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GoneCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GONSummary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOYSummary: Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel. Guided by leading scientists and mystics, she finds that if reality itself is not questionable, her notion of it certainly is. Plunge into a world where quantum uncertainity is demonstrated - where Amanda's neurological processes, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASummary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The deeply personal story of a man who confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse by a local priest, only to find his decision shatters his relationships with his family, community, and faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWISummary: A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, Earth will be destroyed by the more advanced planets of the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2002