Summary: A powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOO

Summary: Profiles the Pink Panthers, a gang of international jewel thieves responsible for stealing nearly one billion dollars worth of jewels.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SMA

Summary: Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEA

Summary: C.D. Bales, a fireman with an astonishingly long nose, harbors a secret love for Roxanne, a beautiful astronomy student who is attracted to another man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tri-Star Home Video 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROX

Summary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRO

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

Summary: A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market, while being pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PI

Summary: Follows a group of U.S. soldiers as they create new lives post-Iraq from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter in Louisiana, set against the backdrop of the 2008 election.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOW

Summary: Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Gravity 2013

Summary: This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, starting in 2007. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RES
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RES

Summary: Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAR

Summary: Unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin find himself in the sightlines of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has stolen a priceless treasure tied to a dastardly pirate. With the help of Snowy, Captain Haddock, and bumbling detectives...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADV

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Tintin 2012

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

Summary: Explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. From the tents of carnie roadshows of the early 20th century to "Nudie Cuties," blood-soaked gore fests, biker flicks, blaxploitation and beyond. Looks at the films, the filmmakers, shysters and hustlers who made it all happen. Includes over 2 hours of outtakes, classic grindhouse trailers, and long lost, never-before-seen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME

Summary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DIS

Summary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILL

Summary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUS

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

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

Summary: For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOU

Summary: Loosely based on the mysterious true crime story of a young stage actor who, obsessed with a Greek tragedy he's rehearsing, slays his own mother with a sword.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT

Summary: The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIR
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JIR

Summary: A bounty hunter is charged with delivering an embezzling, bail-jumping accountant to Los Angeles. What he doesn't know is that the Mob is also after said accountant for embezzling the money in the first place.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MID

Summary: Two urban intellectuals set out on a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers. They share the ride with a couple they hardly know and find out firsthand about their subject.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KAL

Summary: Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SCE