Summary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OMASummary: Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROSSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRJalili, Abolfazl
Summary: Kaim, a young Afghan boy, runs into Iran after his mother is killed in a bombing and, not knowing where his father is, he finds a home with a married couple running a café.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DELSummary: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: In turn-of-the century Morocco, a sheik kidnaps a feisty American woman and her children, holding them hostage until President Roosevelt sends in the troops to free them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINSummary: A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantánamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROASummary: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "October, 1940. Manchester, England. As valiant Jewish RAF pilot David defends the skies against the Luftwaffe, Harry and Kasia finally arrive home. How will Robina cope with another refugee under roof? When yet another house guest arrives -- Sir James, a civil servant on official business -- he looks set to beguile his host, but will Kasia be charmed as well? Meanwhile, in Berlin, teenager...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WORSummary: Calvin never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. One morning he decides to sell the shop to Lester. Calvin spends the day cutting heads at the shop, and starts to understand the importance of the legacy left to him. Calvin learns to appreciate his barber friends, and discovers that the place where they work is more than just a place to get a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: Lars von Trier enters the world of documentary filmmaking and challenges his idol Jørgen Leth to remake his 1967 film The Perfect Human five times, each time with a new obstruction, hoping each time that he will fail!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIVSummary: "Shot entirely in Siam, the film tells the story of a farmer and his family who have settled a small patch of land on the edge of the jungle. Their existence is a constant struggle against the many wild animals around, "--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROMSummary: Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration of a family saga. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) follows a poor Bengali family living in a village. The boy Apu's development grows as he witnesses the protection of family members' reputations, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Suliman, Ali
Summary: Elia Suleiman tells stories of the Israeli state from 1948 up to the present day, through the writings found in his father's diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Americans have been taken hostage in Iran, but in the seedy dying discos of 1979 Los Angeles, a naive young immigrant is hostage to his own American dream. Houshang, or "Hank" when he is pretending to be Italian to get past prejudiced doormen, sees the disco club circuit as his ticket to a better life. Houshang's ambition leads to a chaotic and desperate journey of lost identity, forbidden love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinéma Libre Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMESummary: Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mao 2011Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: Rose, a demure and prim governess, arrives in Marrakesh, Morocco to begin a new job as a paid companion to a wealthy English expatriate. As she explores the exotic environs of her new home, she is seduced by the men, music, and mystery of Morocco.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ANOSummary: Follow five clueless buffoons as they plan to strike a blow on their own turf, showing that while terrorism is supposed to be about ideology, it can also be about idiots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alamo Drafthouse Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF FoSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002