Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: "They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is [an undercover police officer]. But which one?"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY RESSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: "Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TINSummary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: A plains drifter cowboy single-handedly rescues a local nun from a gang of attackers, but discovers that the she is not what she seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that will determine the fate of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHRSummary: "Detectives Martha Bellamy (Fay Ripley, Cold Feet), Jack Weston (Damien Molony, Being Human), and Charlie Steele (Clare-Hope Ashitey, Children of Men) are back to solve a series of all-new mysteries in contemporary London. From an arson attack that leaves a teenager fighting for his life to a copycat murder that could be the work of a serial killer, Martha and her team work tirelessly to expose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Acorn Media] 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUSSummary: DS Jack Weston and DC Charlie Steele are shocked when their boss, DI Martha Bellamy, is shot dead in her home. DCI Daniel Drummond joins Jack and Charlie to lead the investigation into Martha's murder, also bringing in detectives Alisha Brooks and Gary Roscoe. The new team soon realizes that Martha's murder could be connected to a cold case she was investigating. Could one of those suspects...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUSSummary: The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 8Summary: "A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed, and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: The clues in a Jane Doe murder case points one way, yet detective Cassie Mayweather thinks another way. There's something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence leads to an obvious perpetrator - something that ties to Cassie's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder 2002Summary: "Set in a small West Country town, Jennifer Saunders' enchanting comedy follows the continuing exploits of ex-practice nurse Sal Vine and the memorable, and not a little eccentric, members of the local Guild"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: 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
4 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: Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CHISummary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the files of more cold cases. A spectral leader calling himself 'The Shepherd' is inciting vulnerable women to commit murder; a sadomasochistic killer is counting off his victims, leaving the word 'sorry' carved into their skin; and the discovery of an unexploded bomb threatens to bring unforeseen upheaval to the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: An emotional detective story spread over two continents and a half-century. Beneath the film's stunning and pulsing musical revelations burn the horror of war, and the lost souls extinguished from history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: Marshal Matt Dillon is sworn to protect and serve the good people of Dodge City. Faithfully by his side are reliable medic Doc Adams, strong-willed saloon keeper Miss Kitty and trustworthy Deputy Festus Haggen. Together, they take on the likes of gold-digging bandits, bloodthirsty gunslingers and an underhanded boxing champ. Expanding on a trailblazing frontier legacy, this beloved series...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016