Lakemeier, Martijn

Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WIN

Summary: A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Trapero, Pablo

Summary: An ambulance-chasing attorney and a doctor cross paths while investigating car accidents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2011

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

Summary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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

Summary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015

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

Summary: "A landmark documentary ... Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door slesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001

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

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007

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

Summary: Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAP

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

Sharma, Suraj

Summary: Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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

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

Summary: Comedy about a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRE

Summary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010

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

Summary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: A chance meeting between an accountant and a housewife results in a 26-year affair where they meet only once a year.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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

Summary: Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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

Cotillard, Marion

Summary: The relationship of Ali, an unemployed single father, and Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a serious accident.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUS

Summary: Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUS

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

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

Summary: Gorky Park opens with the discovery of three mutilated bodies buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GOR

Summary: Scott is 15 and growing up in suburban Long Island. While caught up in his first love, Scott watches the relationships of his parents and neighbors slowly crumble as they try to keep up with the changing times.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2009

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

Summary: When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007

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

Attal, Yvan

Summary: After a wealthy industrialist is kidnapped, he deteriorates physically and emotionally as he is mistreated and the unsavory details of his private life become public.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2011

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAP

Summary: "For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANN