Summary: This crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Determined LAPD detective Russell Poole spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Jack Jackson, a journalist teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains old, and why a secretive division of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CITCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CITSummary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLSummary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: "Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RICSummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: 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: A searing portrait of the self-absorbed English artist Francis Bacon at the height of his fame in the 1960s and his tumultuous love affair with his self-destructive lover George Dyer, a would-be thief whom Bacon discovered one night as the young man attempted to burgle Bacon's studio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVSummary: In 2012, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. For Philippa Langley, this was the culmination of years of obsessive research despite the doubts of her friends, family, experts, and academics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSShakespeare, William
Summary: Henry decides to invade France where he thinks he has a claim to the throne. At Agincourt he leads his army into battle against the powerful French forces and, against all the odds, wins a famous victory.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHASummary: The well-meaning Jim Hacker, a newly appointed Cabinet Minister, battles career civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YESSummary: A convict leaves jail in Texas on a parole arranged by a crooked politician, and promptly joins his wife in planning a bank robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GETSummary: Over the years Tsar Nicholas cannot satisfy the needs of the people or prevent Russia's entry into World War I, and the Empress falls under the spell of the evil monk, Rasputin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NICSummary: Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recruited to spy for Russia in 1934. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Across almost 20 years of spying and treachery, the four are bound by their beliefs, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAMSummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSummary: Horror of Dracula (1958): "Christopher Lee as the centuries-old vampire Dracula and Peter Cushing as his implacable foe Van Helsing battle for the souls of Londoners in this retelling of Bram Stoker's novel."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Returning for what would be the final season (1979-80) for many of the original cast and writers of SNL, the complete fifth season includes an array of comedic hosts, including Steve Martin, Eric Idle, Buck Henry, Rodney Dangerfield, Martin Sheen, Bea Arthur, Ted Knight, and more. It also features classic performances by Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Randy Newman,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009