Summary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven. That's what police brass and Craven himself think, but that's not what the investigation finds. Clue after clue and witness after witness, the search leads him into a shadowy realm where money and political intrigue intersect. If Craven wasn't a target before, he, and anyone linked to his inquiry, now is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EDGSummary: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GANSummary: On a lonely Greyhound bus, a chance encounter between Sara and Tess, both with identical black travel bags, sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLAFarrell, Colin
Summary: After his family is killed, a man seeks revenge by infiltrating the killers' criminal enterprise and pitting two crime bosses against each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEAEastwood, Clint
Summary: In Texas, an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage and they form a bond, while being chased by a Texas Ranger, the FBI and local lawmen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PERSummary: A young bride joins her new husband's rich, eccentric family in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REASummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: "A self-centered New York City publicist suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as [he] must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003