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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI EQUSummary: Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SERSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 2002
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Summary: An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN METSummary: The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Cincinnati 2005Summary: "A tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF HIGMaine, Regis.
Summary: Hailed as the Prince of the Forest at his birth, wobble-legged Bambi the fawn lives deep in the woodland with his mother. His youth is filled with friends--Thumper, a jovial rabbit who says all the wrong things; Flower, a skunk with an inferiority complex; and Friend Owl, misanthrope of the treetops. As he grows, fun-and-games give way to the hardship of winter and the most terrifying,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DISKingsly, Ben
Summary: A retelling of Shakespeare's comic tale of identical twins, girls disguised as boys, practical joking, and love at first sight, set in the country of Illyria.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Sombogaart, Ben
Summary: Three Dutch women become friends as they fly to New Zealand to get married and begin new lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRIHarper, Ben
Contents: CD. Don't look twice (3:13) ; I'm in I'm out and I'm gone (4:37) ; We can't end this way (3:37) ; I don't believe a word you say (3:34) ; You found another lover (I lost another friend) (4:13) ; I ride at dawn (4:42) ; Blood side out (2:52) ; Get up! (6:17) ; She got kick (2:56) ; All that matters now (4:53) -- DVD. Short feature about Get up! (featuring interviews with Ben Harper and Charlie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HARAffleck, Ben
Summary: Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang, decides he wants to leave town and the life of crime behind when he falls in love with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, but he finds the choices he has to make more difficult than he imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOWSummary: Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses, who turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom outside Egypt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TENSummary: When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a well spring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town past a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIFSummary: Episodes of the television program aired from 1965 to 1967.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEASummary: A merry mashup of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan, who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE POL1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POLSummary: Phoolan Devi was a murderer, kidnapper and living folk legend who had endured a life of rape and abuse after beng sold into marriage at the age of eleven. A spree of murders known as the Behmai Massacre to avenge the death of her lover made Devi the object of a police hunt. In prison from 1983 until 1994, she spent years being prosecuted by the Indian police, only to be turned into a legend by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANSummary: Building the Titanic has been a huge financial effort, and White Star Line president Bruce Ismay wants her maiden voyage to hit the headlines. It is at Ismay's urging that Capt. Edward J. Smith pushes for a record speed in their voyage to New York, and that eventually sows the seeds for later disaster. This Titanic features a number of rich, decadent British passengers and a handful of noble...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004