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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNSummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine 'The new republic'. He was also a freelance writer featured in 'Rolling Stone', 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'George'. By the mid 1990's, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: A domestic drama which reveals the corrosive effects of alcoholism on a hardened young advertising executive and his attractive young wife, both of whom drink heavily to compensate for their insecurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DAYSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the joeks end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOYSummary: One of Jack London's best known tales, Call of the wild follows a young man's journey to the great Yukon gold rush and his unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck formed along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CALSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TUVSummary: When Playboy Bunny, Shelly, is tossed out of the Playboy Mansion, she has nowhere to go. She quickly falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority, all seven of whom are socially inept, are about to lose their house. The girls need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide. Eventually, the girls, and Shelly, learn to stop pretending to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUSummary: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bucket 2008Summary: Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday CSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLESummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoSummary: Captain Geoffrey Thorpe is the terror of the Spanish Main, striking crippling blows against the oppressive Spanish war machine, freeing English slaves from the galley ships and filling England's coffers with Spanish gold--with the tacit approval of England's Queen Elizabeth I. When the dashing Thorpe raids and sinks a diplomatic vessel bringing ambassador Don José Alvarez de Cordoba and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SEASummary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR NOT RATEDSummary: All men seem hopelessly obsessed with Pandora, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, but she has eyes only for Hendrick, who has been cursed to sail the seven seas for all eternity in search of a woman who will sacrifice her life for him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PANSummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROMSummary: A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003