Summary: One of the most legendary games in the history of sports: Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968. Harvard and Yale, both teams undefeated for the first time since 1909, meet for the annual climax of the Ivy League football season. Yale and Harvard stage an unforgettable football contest that baffled even their own coaches. Using vintage footage and bracingly honest contemporary interviews with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 HARSummary: Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Short 2014Summary: Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: Season One: Based on the best-selling book series from CJ Box, Joe Pickett is the new game warden of a town as beautiful and charming as it is corrupt and dangerous. When a poacher turns up brutally murdered, Joe decides to investigate it to keep his wife and young daughters safe. This sets off a chain of events that uncovers lies and deceit from within the community, putting Joe and his family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.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 PAUSummary: Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WON RATED PGEfron, Zac
Summary: A soldier in Iraq unwittingly evades the path of a falling bomb when he stops to look at a photograph on the ground, leading him on a search for the woman whose picture saved his life when he returns home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lucky 2012Summary: A farmer moves his family to South Africa and suffers a series of seemingly insurmountable losses. Through unlikely friendships and much needed divine intervention, he discovers his life's true purpose and it sustains his unwavering belief in the power of faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FSummary: Presents the story of a victorious Roman general whose rigid code of honor and duty proves to be his downfall. A shocking journey into the depths of the human heart, a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TITHaneke, Michael
Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASHung, Tran Anh
Summary: In 1960s Tokyo, the death of Kizuki has an influence on the relationship of his best friend Toru, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Rookie 2002Summary: When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RoSummary: In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow crevasse, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. He had gone to Bluejohn Canyon, Utah for a rock-climbing weekend alone. Not telling anyone where he was going and finding himself stuck, he knows he can't expect anyone to come to his rescue. As a trained engineer and a skilled, albeit somewhat...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray 127Summary: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the Philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC QUASummary: In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus, the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Troy 2005Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrSummary: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken different paths. While Chuck moved on with his life, Buck remained emotionally immature and developed a twisted obsession for his friend, with comic and embarrassing repercussions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHUSummary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Witness the inspirational true story of a real American hero, Ernie Davis. Rising from humblest of beginnings, Ernie Davis overcame impossible odds to become the first African-American to win college football's greatest honor-the Heisman Trophy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXPSummary: Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BROSummary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009