Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GANSummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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 Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: American soldiers try to hold off Japan's invasion of the Philippines; after surrendering to Japan, an American army colonel organizes a Filipino guerrilla force; follows an elite group of soliders trained for anti-guerilla warfare in Vietnam; the crew of an American submarine head to Tokyo Bay to prepare for the Doolittle air raid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Into 2007Summary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANSummary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA UGLSummary: Rescued from drowning in the swimming pool of a Beverly Hills couple, a disconsolate bum brings startling and hilarious changes to the entire household, including the family dog, Matisse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A man travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers he has been conducting an affair there for years. Things get complicated when he falls for the woman's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AVASummary: Bob Lee Swagger is a master marksman who has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military. He has become disillusioned with his government, but finds that the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president. A shadowy government operative begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. Ultimately he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: When a brother and sister invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.
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 DRESummary: The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004