Penn, Sean

Summary: A mentally-challenged man seeks custody of his young daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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

Summary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Milk 2009

Summary: This adaptation of the novel by James Jones is a realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THI

Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after the brutal murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter and Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Mys

Summary: Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COL

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

Summary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.

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 SNA

Summary: City-boy Ren McCormick finds he has been moved into an uptight Midwestern town where the local officials have banned dancing and rock 'n roll music. Ren revolts with his best friend Willard and the minister's daughter. A timeless struggle between innocent teenage pleasures and adults' need for rigid morality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004

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

Summary: During WWII, nurse Eliska is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of Zelary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LON

Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHI

Summary: Munich, 1923. Edward Elric has been separated from his brother for two years because of a sacrifice that ripped him out of his world and into ours. He is now allied with Alphons Heiderich, a fellow researcher who resembles his brother. When Ed saves a quiet Gypsy girl with the power to read minds, he is quickly pulled into a plot by the Thule Society and the Nazi Party. What will happen when...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FUL

Summary: Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moby 2001

Summary: The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lawrence

McKenna, Virginia

Summary: Based on a true story of a couple who raise a lion cub and then set her free when she reaches adulthood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BOR

Summary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAW

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAW

Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAS

Summary: Ten years after the tragic events of Jean de Florette, Manon (Jean's daughter) seeks revenge against those she holds responsible for her father's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Renn Productions/Films 2001

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