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 NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SavingCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OTHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Other 2008Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTH RATED PG-13Summary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SOUSummary: Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Conspirator 2011Summary: Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOWSummary: 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 NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13Summary: It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the immiment war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeSummary: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015