Summary: Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmf┬⌐╞´hrer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

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

Summary: Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Saving 2007

Summary: Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MID

Summary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007

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

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

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

Summary: Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Woman 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED PG-13

Summary: Alan's desire for success in music and love is hampered by one thing -- himself. He decides to leave his band and heads for New York City for a new musical adventure. There, he is only half-heartedly romancing radio DJ Sara and promoting his fledgling band, Mutual Appreciation. Alan tries to stay focused and manages to fend off some of his distractions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: Four adopted brothers come back home to avenge their mother's death at what appeared to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boy's investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local gangster. Two local cops, who are trying to solve the case, may also not be what they seem.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

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

Danquart, Pepe.

Summary: Follows speed climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber as they attempt to break the record for scaling "The Nose" rockface of El Capitan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TO

Summary: The story behind the early years of Monday Night Football and its sportscasting team of Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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

Summary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13

Summary: 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 SHA

Owen, Clive

Summary: Two brothers in 1970s Brooklyn on opposite sides of the law face off as one is released from prison and gradually slips back into his criminal ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2014

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

Summary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000

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

Summary: An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2011

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Black 2011

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLA

Summary: George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVE HER

Summary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008

Summary: Henry spends his time working in the brickyard owned by his family and grieving the loss of his wife. When a young boy enters Henry's life, both man and child find what they desperately need in each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2010

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Last 2010

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

Summary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAM

Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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