Summary: An older couple agree to mind their estranged daughters' boyfriends child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003

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

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

Summary: A heart-warming story about the day-to-day experiences of a Quaker family living in Indiana in 1862, showing their religious beliefs, their worldly temptations, their petty feuds, and their reactions in a time of crisis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

Summary: In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MAN

Summary: A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IN
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN

Summary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNI RATED R

Summary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Summary: In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER VIL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIL

Summary: In the summer of 2001, New York college student Tyler is still feeling lost from the tragedy that has strained his relationship with his father when he meets Ally, a girl who understands his pain. The last thing Tyler's looking for is love, but through their passionate relationship, he finds new possibilities for happiness. It's an unforgettable story about the power of the heart, the strength...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REM

Summary: When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUD

Summary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALI

Summary: Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jarhead 2006

Summary: Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/Fox Video 1991

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAR

Summary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: A siamese cat helps an FBI agent solve a kidnapping.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family That 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THA

Summary: The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributor 2004

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CIN

Summary: Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998

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

Summary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD L

Summary: Set amidst the landscape of 1860s Texas, a young boy named Travis wants nothing to do with a lop-eared stray. But Old Yeller quickly proves himself a loyal friend, protecting the family farm and saving Travis' life. They become inseparable pals, sharing joyous experiences, and Travis learns valuable lessons about growing up.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002

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

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

Summary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIG

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIG

Summary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

Summary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: The shipwrecked Robinson family finds new life on a deserted island far from civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002

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

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

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: Story of life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Brooklyn slums, as seen from the eyes of a bright young girl who is charmed by her drunken father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PD Entertainment. 2008

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