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 BENWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINSummary: "Following a bloody conflict between her clan and that of the "men from the land of ice", Maïna (Roseanne Supernault) the daughter of Grand Chief Mishtenapuu (Graham Greene), sets off on a mission to rescue a captured boy - little knowing her actions will result in the poignant meeting of two of America's founding nations. A truly epic tale of adventure and romance in a time before European...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAISummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLGreen, Eva
Summary: When the only woman in a French astronaut training program is chosen for a year-long space mission, it creates difficulties in her relationship with her seven-year-old daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PROSummary: A wealthy Australian ranch owner's gift of a wild pony means young Scotty can finally ride the seven miles to and from school. But the pony gets away and is sheltered as unclaimed by a young girl who cannot walk. The treasured pony means freedom to both children, but can only belong to one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RIDSummary: Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice who was killed by a savage dog, Pat and Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple find the idea disturbing and exciting in equal measure, but once they agree to the terms with the village's leader, a far bigger question looms: what will they do...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reel Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR WAKSummary: Joel, a caustic 1980's film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VICSummary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002Summary: Vanessa Ives accepting her demons could exact a terrible cost and plunge the world into darkness, while Ethan Chandler, Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Sir Malcolm, the Creature, and Lily must each face their own monstrous selves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENSummary: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: The atomic brain: Inside an evil mansion, a mad scientist and an old woman hire three young women as servants. Grave robbing and forced brain transplants by atomic power add to the horror as the three women are chained to the devil's love lab ; The brain that wouldn't die: A crazed surgeon accidentally decapitates his attractive fiancée. He takes her head to his lab to keep if alive while he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CULSummary: When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OVECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Overboard 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OvSummary: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOGSummary: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ExCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI EXSummary: Belle, an animal-loving 12-year-old, becomes withdrawn after her mother's death in an automobile accident. Rebelling against her father, she is sent to live at the horse ranch of her gruff maternal grandfather. With the help of the animals, Belle's work on the farm transforms the entire family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family All 2008Summary: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Second 2015Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD SECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PGSummary: It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EvSummary: With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaSummary: "Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FORSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007