Summary: Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDSummary: "Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years."--IMDb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SENSummary: Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora for her biggest challenge yet: High School. When her parents mysteriously disappear while searching for the Lost City of Gold, Dora must swing into action and lead a group of ill-equipped high schoolers on a quest to save them. It is a high stakes mission as Dora and her new friends navigate the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Dora 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORSummary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: Dora and all her friends are putting on a musical. But when the Pirate Piggies accidentally take Dora's treasure chest of costumes to Treasure Island, she and her friends need to set sail on a musical journey to get them back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORSummary: Fairytale Land is in trouble, and only magic water from Sparkling Lake can save it! Help Dora and Boots journey deep into the Never-to-be-Seen-Again Forest to bring magic back to Fairytale Land!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORSummary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REVSummary: Sacha, a young girl from the late-19th-century Russian aristocracy, defies her parents and flees Saint Petersburg for the Great North, in search of her grandfather, the renowned scientist and Arctic explorer Oloukine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY LONSummary: During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEISummary: A remarkable imagining of the historic voyages of sixteenth-century explorer and writer Fernao Mendes Pinto, one of the first Europeans to sail to and travel the Orient, Inda, Japan, and places in between. Choral renditions of Portuguese singer-songwriter Fausto's progressive '80s pop album Por Este Rio Acima add inspiration to a lush period drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PILSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Dora's first trip: Dora tells the story of how she first met Boots. -- Best friends: On Best Friend's day, Dora and Boots meet on Rainbow Rock for a special picnic. -- Tree house: Dora and Boots keep running into friends in need of help. -- Chocolate tree : Abuela tells Dora and Boots about a magical Chocolate Tree that lived near her house when she was a little girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOS RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSSummary: "The lives of three families change profoundly in the north woods of Michigan, where winters are unforgiving, jobs are hard to come by, and the line between living life and simply surviving is razor-thin ... As racers and their families pin their hopes to a 500-mile-long test of endurance, small trimphs and giant sacrifices are made along the way" -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NORSummary: M.J. Clayton is a high profile Chicago art critic who is known for his heartless commentaries. He retreats to his Mackinac Island cottage to clear his head after receiving a scolding from his boss. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation. This is followed by an impossible wager which he then finds himself entered into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTI Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Summary: 1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEMSummary: Super babies: Big Sister Dora entertains her baby brother and sister with a story about Super Babies. -- Catch the babies: The babies have climbed into their baby carriage and now they're roling downhill toward Gooey Geyser. -- Baby Dino: When Dora and Boots find a lost baby dinosaur they need Diego's help to get him home. -- Por favor: Dora and Boots must help a young king Kinkajou retrieve...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: After an injury and losing her college basketball scholarship, a young woman returning home struggles to rebuild her life as she and her family in Flint, Michigan face internal turmoil and the aftermath of a deadly water crisis. The bonds of family are all they have left as they rebuild their lives, their town, and their hope for their future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLISummary: A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Grand 2010Summary: Wonder Park: A young girl named June with a big imagination makes an incredible discovery: the amusement park of her dreams has come to life. Filled with the world's wildest rides operated by fun-loving animals, the excitement never ends. But when trouble hits, June and her misfit team of furry friends begin an unforgettable journey to save the park.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMSummary: The Clades are a legendary family of explorers attempting to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STREakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONSummary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004