Summary: 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 EQU

Summary: 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 EQU

Summary: For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOT

Summary: The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001

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

Summary: Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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

Summary: 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 BAN

Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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

Summary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Then he encounters police officers in a transit station. They kill him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FRU
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRU

Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

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

Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

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

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

Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after the brutal murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter and Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MAR

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PG

Summary: Drifter Frank Chambers comes to work for Cora and her husband in their California roadside diner. Frank eyes the pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Frank and Cora become lovers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

Summary: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: Three couples representing different generations come together in unexpected and surprising ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Director Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years, now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India's most popular...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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

Summary: Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1980

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

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

Summary: 1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2008

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

Summary: In spite of his stuttering problem, the high school debate team star invites Hal to join the team. Stumbling his way to the championship, Hal falls in love, gains confidence, and ultimately realizes that love and life should not be rocket science.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROC
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROC

Summary: True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case, Gideon v. Wainright (1963), led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007

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

Summary: The inspirational and triumphant story of a man who defies great odds and takes on a monumental challenge. This heartwarming tale of determination is an uplifting and humorous film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVEI ON