Summary: A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEM
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LEM

Summary: A faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams's classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WAT

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WAT

Summary: Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends them. One day, when returning from Central Park with Walter, Tarek is arrested for jumping a stuck subway...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Visitor 2008

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

Summary: Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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

Gere, Richard

Summary: In the early 20th century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007

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

Various

Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOC

Summary: A fox terrier and a black labrador escape from an animal research station and must run for their lives when it is rumored they are carriers of a plague.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PLA

Summary: Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

Summary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Ki

Summary: Will is the quirky street performer with a free spirit and a heart of pure gold. The object of Will's lifelong affection is Emma, the beautiful young actress whom he has never stopped loving since they were childhood sweethearts. But when they reunite, and Will gets swept up in Emma's complicated past, his innocence and all-consuming passion could cost him everything he's ever wanted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011

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

Summary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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

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

Summary: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: Love and sex complicate the lives of Nora Evans and her two teenage daughters in this coming of age film set in a small New Mexico town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007

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

Summary: Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blosssoms into full womanhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures Corp. 2005

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE RAI

Summary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CAS

Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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

Summary: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Roach Studios 2000

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

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

Summary: During a global pandemic, a man must battle swarming hordes of the undead to rescue a female neighbor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: Inspired by the true story of Ken Carter, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COA

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Coach 2005

Scharf, Yuval

Summary: The rivalry between father and son professors of Talmudic studies comes to a head when the father is slated to receive Israel's most prestigious national award for his work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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