Summary: CIA operative Roger Ferris is on a covert mission. He is working in Jordan and searching for terrorists who have been bombing civilian targets. Ferris uncovers information on the Islamist mastermind Al-Saleem. He devises a plan to infiltrate Al-Saleem's terrorist network with the help of his Langley boss, Ed Hoffman. Ferris enlists the help of the Chief of Jordanian Intelligence, Hani Salaam on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOD

Summary: 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 127

Summary: A heartwarming and light hearted look at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. The story of a family facing hardships who must rely on their faith for miracles to happen during the holiday season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn adversity into triumph.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Searchlight Pictures 2010

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 127 RATED R

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

Teatro Alla Scala

Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008

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

Summary: Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLE

Summary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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

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

Summary: "Contains strong language, violence, sexual situations, drug use, and disturbing images"--Container

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HID

Summary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Milk 2009

Summary: A tongue-in-cheek look at the insect world, ultimately portraying the insect as an indomitable menace and potential threat to nature and the human race.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEL

Summary: CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sum 2002

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SUM

Summary: 1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless town from the murderous rancher. Their efforts become complicated and their friendship is tested when a young widow arrives in town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Appaloosa 2009

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN APP

Summary: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015

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

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

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI EX

Summary: Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2010

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday N

Summary: In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Millennium Entertainment 2013

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

Summary: They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Alcon Entertainment 2014

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

Summary: Film noir semi-documentary style treatment based on an actual Los Angeles Police Department case. A cop killer manages to elude detection by intercepting police radio calls and by altering his appearance. Evidence points to an alienated electronics expert.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: A group of female friends keeps ties by sharing a pair of blue jeans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

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

Summary: Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC FLA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flash 2009

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

Summary: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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

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

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

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

Summary: A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Nothing 2009

Summary: 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 RES