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Summary: When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough class of inner-city teenagers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Narrated by Katie Couric, the film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: In a remake of the original 1968 film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers - and humans are little more than slaves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: Billionaire Thomas Crown loves courting disaster and winning! But when he meets his match in an intelligent, cunning, lady insurance investigator, a game of cat and mouse ensues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Thomas 2000

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Merchant 2005

Summary: Three middle-aged men disenchanted with their lives, try to relive their youth by moving into a house on a college campus and start hanging out with a group of misfit college students, losers, and retirees.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003

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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLD RATED R

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

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

Summary: Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, Albanian gang members break into the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Taken 2009

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIS

Summary: Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Two friends, both actresses, leave Los Angeles for Big Sur embarking on a weekend getaway to reconnect. Once alone, however, the two women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments bubble to the surface, causing them to lose grasp not just of the true nature of their relationship, but also of their own identities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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