Doret, Thomas
Summary: After eleven-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KID1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KID
More, Kenneth
Summary: An authentic depiction of the tragedy of the sinking of the cruise ship Titanic, in which 1500 people died.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGKore-eda, Hirokazu
Summary: Follows one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, as they gather for a commemorative ritual.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STISummary: Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the death of their mother, a set of twins make a life-altering discovery. The pair travels to the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about the father they thought was dead who is still very much alive, and the brother they never knew existed. Along the way they will piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF INCSummary: A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROSummary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1904, well bred Samantha Parkington finds friendship with servant girl Nellie O'Malley when she comes to visit New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AmeSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1980
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FAMHarden, Marcia Gay.
Summary: Felicity tries to rescue a horse mistreated by its owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AmeSummary: The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage, about an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PHASummary: 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 HAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAMSummary: A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistant questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZSummary: A gritty look at the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse are common, and hope is not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NILSummary: George Bailey, a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment, Inc. 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ITSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IT'SSummary: Marcus Aurelius Antonius is philosopher-emperor of Rome who summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FALSummary: Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREDehaan, Dane
Summary: When three ordinary high school friends discover they have unusual powers, harmless pranks escalate to dangerous activities as their darker sides develop along with their powers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEHBellini, Vincenzo
Summary: During the English Civil War of the 1640's, a Puritan bride goes mad when she feels betrayed by her Royalist bridegroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PURSummary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVEKline, Kevin
Summary: Middle-aged French chambermaid Hélène suddenly finds she has a talent for chess and, much to her family's consternation, seeks out a reclusive American expat to teach her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2011