Summary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXSummary: The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Angels 2002Summary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO RATED PGSummary: "On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: A lovely gesture - a bouquet of roses - from husband to wife becomes the catalyst for a clash of long-repressed emotion. Their son has just come back from war, but is caught in the middle of their conflict.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUBSummary: When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TROSummary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUTSummary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Summary: Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ISummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit made of armor. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IROSummary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INGSummary: Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEESummary: A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HULSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: When Emily Crany refuses to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, Ray Salwen, she's blacklisted and immediately fired from her job. But when she stumbles upon Salwen's nefarious plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the U.S., she enlists the help of an FBI agent to help her bring Salwen to justice ... before he brings an end to them!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015