Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAK

Summary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

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

Summary: 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 GOL

Summary: An international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface our seemingly pristine ocean. The result will astound viewers, just as it did our adventurers, who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PLA

Summary: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DAN

Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIL

Summary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRI

Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Elliott, Sam

Summary: After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017

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

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

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

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

Summary: Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, many of whom were interred in concentration camps during World War II because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175, which states: An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights may also be imposed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002

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

Summary: "American Dreamz" is a wildly popular television singing contest program that has captured the country's attention. This new season showcases a competition between Sally, a young Midwestern gal and Omer, a show tunes-loving young man from Orange County. The recently depressed President of the United States wants in on the craze and signs up for the potentially explosive season finale.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2006

Summary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005

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

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

Summary: "On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople-- suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning-- expect the worst and behave accordingly."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Gangsters corrupt a team of ballplayers, opening the eyes of the country to the humanity of the people in the national sport.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain/BBC Video 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIL

Webber, Andrew Lloyd

Summary: Musical about a gathering of cats to decide who will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD CAT

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAT

Summary: During the early days of COVID, the Oscar nominee set himself the challenge of committing Four Quartets to memory, and in 2021 he brought it to the London stage followed by a tour of theaters across the UK. Written by Nobel Prize winner Eliot in the shadow of the Second World War, the poem is a searching examination of who and what we are. This celebrated meditation on human experience, time,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS FOU

Summary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002

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

Summary: A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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