Summary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006

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

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

Summary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008

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

Summary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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

Summary: When a harsh winter threatens the majestic Scottish Highlands, Rob Roy MacGregor is forced to borrow money from the less-than-noble Marquis of Montrose to provide for his clan. When Montrose's evil henchmen conspire to take the wealth for themselves, they thrust Rob into the most challenging battle of his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997

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

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

Summary: A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment Inc. 2001

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

Summary: Tom (Cunliffe), an alienated 15-year-old, forced to move away from his friends in London when his family relocates to rural Devon, struggles with the change and becomes an observer of the family. His mother (Swinton) is pregnant, his father (Winstone) is vocally abusive, and his 18 year old sister (Belmont) is sexually active. Troubled by his own emerging sexuality, the boy comes to suspect his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000

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

Summary: Young Frances and Elsie believe in fairies. The photographs the girls take of the winged beings put them at the center of a real-life controvery that sweeps through a recovering World War I England during 1917. Everyone is caught up in the excitement, including two of the era's most renowned men: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and master illusionist Harry Houdini. Are the photographs real or just a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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

Summary: Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003

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

Summary: A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: 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

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

Summary: Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUS

Summary: Catherine is the only heir to her stern father's vast estate. When a dashing fortune hunter named Morris Townsend wants her to elope, she is threatened with disinheritance. On the eve of their marriage he deserts her. Seven years later Morris returns, and a wiser Catherine plots her revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Universal Home Video 1985

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

Summary: A woman athlete of enormous promise in the worlds of both tennis and golf is pursued by a shady promoter who hopes to make her famous and make some money in the process.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Loew's Incorporated [producer] 1952

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAT

Summary: A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001

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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIG

Summary: A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAR