Summary: "[This film] charts the devastating ecological impact of overfishing by interweaving both local and global stories of sharply declining fish populations, including the imminent extinction of the bluefin tuna, and illuminates how our modern fishing capacities far outstrip the survival abilities of any ocean species. Scientists explain how this depletion has slipped under the public radar and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC END
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF END

Summary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014

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

Summary: Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2018

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

Summary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Father 2018

Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008

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

Summary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999

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

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

Summary: "Sarah, Plain and Tall:" A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas in 1910 to join a widower, John Witting, and his two children. "Skylark:" The Witting family is tested first by drought and then by separation, as Sarah and the children are forced to leave their Kansas farm to join Sarah's aunts in Maine while Jacob remains behind to try to save their livelihood. "Sarah Plain and Tall:...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SAR

Summary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011

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

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

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

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

Summary: It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it's the job of an investigative reporter to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHO

Summary: Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021

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

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

Summary: In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hostiles 2018

Summary: An idealistic NYC public defender burned out by the system and on the brink of disbarment, teams up with a former client who draws him into a high-stakes heist, all while the universe is collapsing around them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

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

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

Summary: Set in near-future Seattle, follow couple Jude Williams and Emma Ryerson as their relationship grows amidst the global epidemic from the Alzheimer's-like condition, Neuroinflammatory Affliction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA LIT

Summary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: Ocean's 11 (127 min): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

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