Summary: True story of the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion Productions 2001

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

Summary: Based on real-life events. Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003

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

Summary: Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film (based on Fuiller's own war experiences) follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. This restoration was based on Fuller's shooting script and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Summary: Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A teenage Jewish boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to survive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2006

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

Summary: Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Letters 2007

Summary: The story of country music singer Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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

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

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

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

Summary: Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Rudy 2000

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

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

Summary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWA

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

Summary: A comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the twenties, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRI
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRI

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

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

Summary: A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC THE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie There 2008

Summary: Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003

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

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

Summary: The courageous story of an African-American sailor who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl's iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2001

Summary: Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: Set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ocean Park Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out the her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Premonition 2007

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

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

Summary: In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SIG

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

Summary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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