Summary: The story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, plans to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, Australia. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIN

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

Summary: Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions, and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she uncovers a dark secret about her own past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BOR

Summary: Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLO

Summary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010

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

Summary: Wake Island: A handful of U.S. Marines holdout against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CLA

Summary: The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured their ranks compels the remaining to take one final stand in the grand conclusion to twenty-two films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVE

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

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

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

Summary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015

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

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth meets a magical animal rescuer who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant ten-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey set out on an adventure that will keep viewers on the edge-of-their-seats as the heroes take a bite out of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2022

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

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CLI

Summary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER ALF
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD THRILLER ALF

Summary: 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 GET

Summary: Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffereing from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna. After...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIV

Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEA

Summary: A thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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

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

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

Summary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999

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

Summary: In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA EIL
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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

Summary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW

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

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

Summary: The Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, Father Amorth investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his film's dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010

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