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Summary: After the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, scribe Topilzin rebels against the new state-imposed religion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13

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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Summary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFK

Summary: The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

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 AMA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Amazing 2007

Summary: Set in 19th century New England, this is a classic tale of greed, lust and family hatred which shatters a family's life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: "Emma is the story of a rich, clever and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: "A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Summary: One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005

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

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PG

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PRI NOT RATED

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pride 2001

Summary: Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SEN

Summary: Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Presents the life of an Irish man whose dreams inspired hope, whose words ingited passion, and whose courage forged a nation's destiny.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Rich teenagers Tenouch and Julio's girlfriends are gone for the summer. When they meet Luisa, an older woman at a wedding the three head out of Mexico City on a wild road trip. Luisa seduces both boys which may destroy the boys' friendship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN Y TU

Summary: 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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Summary: As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SOU

Summary: True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antarctica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHA

Summary: A combat-weary, paranoic Captain Queeg, loses his nerve during a typhoon and is relieved of command by his first officer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOY RATED PG-13

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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