Summary: At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OlSummary: A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WITSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An older couple agree to mind their estranged daughters' boyfriends child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie OnSummary: Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Strong violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KILSummary: 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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Hound of the Baskervilles: A savage beast lurks on England's moors, feeding on the flesh of the heirs of Baskerville Hall. Sherlock Holmes must track down the beast before it sinks its fangs into the newest lord of the manor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SHESummary: Based on a true story, "Second Chances" is the uplifting tale of a little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after a car crash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Omega Publications 1999
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SECSummary: Three close friends start down the path of self-discovery and begin to find their own voices. A family member dies and the three come together to grapple with feelings of revenge, learn the burden of grief, and to experience the changes of growing up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SORSummary: A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ISummary: A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPASummary: For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR OTHSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LINSummary: In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray Movie PhilomenaSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LINSummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017