Summary: Vacationing journalists try to track down a missing war criminal in one of Eastern Europe's deadliest regions. What begins as an impulsive reporting adventure immediately turns dangerous, as hostile locals, shady underworld figures and a case of mistaken identity put them squarely in their target's crosshairs. Amid the bullets and bombs, they discover that getting the scoop is one thing--...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITSummary: Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINSummary: A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHESummary: During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEVSummary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GONSummary: A pseudo-documentary exploring an alternative history of the United States beginning with the Civil war being won by the South, having an alliance with Germany against Japan, and a cold war with Canada.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CSASummary: Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc Corp. 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LINSummary: Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REASummary: Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Alternates points of view between these soldiers, the media and the local Iraqi people illuminating how each group is deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REDSummary: During World War II, a group of American POWs are imprisoned the German POW camp: Stalag 17. When two prisoners are killed during an escape attempt, they realize that there is a spy among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFSummary: The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALESummary: "Cora and her younger sister Alice are on their way to Fort William Henry, escorted by the treacherous Magua. They are unaware that the fort, under the command of their father, is besieged by Indians who are in league with the French. The sisters are saved by Hawkeye and his Indian companions Uncas and Chingachgook. Cora falls in love with the noble Uncas, the last of his tribe. But Magua still...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Slingshot Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LASSummary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAWSummary: Zulu is set in Africa in 1879 only hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A small group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of wave after wave of Zulus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor] 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZULSummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004