Summary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014

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

Summary: In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEL

Summary: When a promising high school basketballer (Cornbread) is accused of rape and mistakenly killed by the police, it is up to his 11-year old brother Wilford and his pal Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear Cornbread's name.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Bernie is extremely unlucky at gambling and he owes the Shangri-La casino's mob boss Shelly Kaplow over $100,000. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler". He gambles next to high rollers and gives them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, but when Bernie has almost paid off his debt, he meets cocktail waitress, Natalie. The two start to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004

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

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

Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SEL

Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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

Watts, Naomi

Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIA RATED PG-13

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

Summary: In this semi-biographical film, a famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: A timely documentary that raises urgent questions about how we travel and the unintended cultural and environmental consequences of tourism around the globe. Gringo Trails follows well-worn travelers' routes through Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan and reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures, such as the host countries' need for financial security and the tourists who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2015

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

Summary: The story of the two unnamed men who were crucified alongside Jesus and how they came to be beside him on the cross that fateful day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021

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

Summary: Ross Carpenter is a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Girls 2002

Summary: A Hollywood movie crew is in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production with Kansas as their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PHO

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

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

Summary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: "The True Cost is a groundbreaking new documentary film that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks us each to consider, who pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums and features interviews with the world's leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth, Vandana Shiva and many...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022

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

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

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

Summary: 20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MAM

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

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

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mamma 2008

Summary: Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's, the story revolves around a young doctor who has a way with women and an aversion to politics. He suddenly finds himself caught up in his country's political turmoil and in a crisis of commitment with the women in his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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