Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016Summary: Untamed love: "The inspiring story of Caitlin, a lost child, Maggie, a dedicated teacher, and the unexpected miracles that happen when Caitlin is finally given the chance to shine"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: Silas and Jamal are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of marijuana. They end up in the possession of some magical weed that enhances their brainpower during college entrance exams, thus enabling them to enter that esteemed institution of learning, Harvard University. Once firmly ensconced in the halls of academia, however, the pals run out of their supernatural supply and are forced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SPICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SpCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD SpiderwickSummary: Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLUSummary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MULSummary: Looking to shake up their routine lives, three amateur bird watchers compete to become the ultimate 'birder' by spotting the greatest number of species within a single calendar year. But the friendly rivalry soon turns into a hilariously complicated cross-country adventure as each man begins to realize that the quest for success comes at a price, and that's not chicken feed!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Big 2011Summary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006