Summary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: With his beloved Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time off the air for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Pickles must find a way to communicate with his many fans who still need him. Jeff creates a new and controversial method to talk directly to children across the world only to become the target of animosity for the first time in his career. As Jeff navigates the most complicated moral gray areas of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KIDSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Miss Marple solves mysteries set against a rich background of grand English estates, gorgeous scenery, and post-WWII period detail. The mirror crack'd from side to side: Hollywood star Marina Gregg has moved into Gossington Hall. When Marina and her dashing young husband host a party for the village, a garrulous fan drops dead after drinking a poisoned cocktail. The secrets of Chimneys: Miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELSummary: This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar®-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OFFSummary: The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIS RATED RSummary: The Punisher walks through the same world we all know, a world darkened by war, by crime, by cruelty, and by injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees all around him. He only has his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his ironclad determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains, including those who killed his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUNSummary: A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A doctor wants to go public with his knowledge that the therapeutic springs that brought fame and commerce to his town are polluted, but the mayor and others are determined to stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies. When NASA realizes he is alive, they must devise a rescue mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI MARSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALSummary: A collection of Tom Selleck's greatest westerns including: Monte Walsh, Last Stand at Saber River and Crossfire Trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TNT Originals 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TOMSummary: Borgen explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg, the idealistic head of the moderate party, becomes prime minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to quickly learn the ways of power. She's an altruistic public servant in an old boys' club and must master the art of the deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When an isolated valley unaffected by the raging war around it becomes a winter haven for a band of mercenaries, violence erupts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Interest of the Nation - Masked soldiers attack a vehicle loaded with high-tech missiles in an attempted smuggling operation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, a Swedish engineer is kidnapped in Ethiopia. But Not if It Concerns Your Daughter - Carl Hamilton's family was wiped out in a revenge attack years ago. Now, those painful memories resurface as Hamilton's seven-year-old goddaughter is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 1919: WWI has just ended, old imperial empires have collapsed and Europe is swept up in a wave of modern ideas. Young Doerte Helm arrives at the newly-founded Bauhaus art school in Weimar thrilled by the innovative approach of its director, the architect Walter Gropius. Like so many others, she becomes a true disciple of the new movement but something more to Gropius as they fall in love. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAUSummary: He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away ... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECSummary: Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUMSummary: As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It's up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search for the one hope of restoring peace to the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011