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Amish Social life and customs Drama Child witnesses Pennsylvania Drama Feature films Feature films United States Films for the hearing impaired Foreign films Hellman, Lillian 1906- Film and video adaptations Man-woman relationships Drama Silent films Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: This drama is set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semetic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GARSummary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PGSummary: Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMSummary: A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America when a car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Crash 2006Summary: A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Freedom 2007Summary: Teena Brandon alters her appearance to appear as a man, and assumes the name Brandon Teena. She moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under her new identity. All goes well until her new friends discover her secret. Based on a true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Charlie, who has recently lost control over his life, searches New York City for a mysterious stranger who holds the key to his recovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: Potemkin re-creats the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians - that reflects the spirit of the times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment, Inc. 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BATSummary: "In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-- a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMPSummary: Noah Calhoun regularly visits Allie Nelson who is in a nursing home because of Alzheimer's. He reads to her from an old, faded notebook containing the account of a young couple, how they met, fell in love, and confronted obstacles to their happiness. It is their own story and sometimes she remembers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NotebookCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE NOTSummary: In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUSummary: "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: Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and co-workers are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Truman 1999Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TRUSummary: A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Janus Films 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CriSummary: Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an ackward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Edges 2005Summary: After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DISSummary: An Amish boy witnesses a murder, and the cop on the case discovers it's part of a conspiracy in his department. Includes all-new special features including a five part documentary and much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005