Summary: It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IMISummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEASummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY RIOSummary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLSummary: Robin Hood attempts to save England from Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham, while also winning the heart of Maid Marian.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Robin 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBSummary: The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerated into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll takes steps to do away with his evil self.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAMSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDSummary: In 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: An animated musical version of Lewis Carroll's tale about a girl named Alice. Alice follows a White Rabbit through a very small door and enters Wonderland, where she has many unusual adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALI RATED GCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALISummary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN JUBSummary: "When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive ... and human."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DAWSummary: The small town of Suddenly is invaded by professional assassin John Baron and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Baron sets up vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. Baron is hoping to become "someone" by killing the President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Legend Films 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SUDSummary: No one's ever really gone. Rey's journey continues, and the Skywalker saga concludes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StSummary: In the spring of 1864, a desperate young farmers wife enlists in the Confederate Army posing as a man. She must battle the Union Army, the men of her unit and her own identity in the quest to find her missing husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: Faced with their biggest challenge yet, the gang sets out to honor a lost friend only to find themselves in the middle of where it all began, Spring Break, where they learn their old school ways of partying hardly compete with today's generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUDSummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012