Summary: Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Alternates points of view between these soldiers, the media and the local Iraqi people illuminating how each group is deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REDSummary: The world's most notorious slum is Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Presents the true story of a young man who grew up on those streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CITSummary: Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULSummary: Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELISummary: When shy, beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn't take long for the two to meet again - during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Colubia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POLSummary: Tells the stories of several people in Rio with love problems. There's Mary Ann, a widowed American schoolteacher who has given up on ever finding love again; Pedro, an attorney separated from his wife; and Tania, (the wife) who may want him back. Then there's Roberto, Pedro's shy brother; AcGacio, a soccer champ; Sharon, a law intern; and Nadine, a young bohemian who thinks she's found the man...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOSSummary: Comedy about an organizationally impaired temporary assistant who gets her first pemanent job at the age of 31 working for a curator of an art gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IVESummary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELLSummary: Hans, a fruit peddler, watches his unexceptional life disintegrate. Seduced and rejected to the point of a nervous breakdown, Hans drinks himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at the dinner table.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MERSummary: A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment Inc. 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRSummary: Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANBerthelet, Arthur.
Contents: Disc 1. Blu-ray -- Disc 2. DVD Feature -- Disc 3. DVD Bonus. From the lost to found: restoring William Gillettes's Sherlock Holmes -- Sherlock Holmes baffled (1900) -- A canine Sherlock (1912) -- Più forte che Sherlock Holmes (1913).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHESummary: November, 1999. A peaceful demonstration to stop the World Trade Oraganization talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared by the Mayor of Seattle. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire of civil liberties and keeping the peace are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a SWAT riot officer on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: A young dreamer whose blind father runs the bathhouse has convinced his father that the bathhouse is filled with customers. His brother is a ruthless industrialist who wants to destroy the building and erect a futuristic city in its place. But that struggle is soon replaced by the movie's dominant storyline, Anton's falling in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl. Aside from a few random...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HALSummary: The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALESummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004