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 GAN

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THR

Summary: Marcus Aurelius Antonius is philosopher-emperor of Rome who summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAL

Summary: A handful of dedicated young soldiers must rise to the challenge of intergalactic warfare with a species of terrifying alien insects that threaten to eliminate the human race.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STA

Summary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001

Summary: The story of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth and teachings to His crucifixtion and Resurrection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THR

Summary: After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either berieved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2021

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LAS

Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEN

Summary: A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAM

Summary: Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HUM

Summary: The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Woman

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM

Summary: Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAK

Zhao, Wenzhuo

Summary: In the sixteenth century in China, a commander and his newly promoted general devise a plan to rid the country's coastline of pirates.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Inc 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOD

Satayev, Akan

Summary: Follows several generations of a Kazakh family as they live through some of the most dramatic periods of Kazakhstan's history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROA