Summary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: Introduced to Latin jazz in the 1980s, when he was beginning his career as a director, Fernando Trueba has since become a devoted fan of the music. He has gathered together a number of his favorite Latin jazz artists for a series of interviews and performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CALSummary: Follows the life of Lilias Trotter, from her work as a woman artist in Victorian England to her missionary work with women and children in French Algeria in the late 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANOzias, Michael
Summary: Tracks four companies working on solving some of humanity's most important problems and examines the outdated regulatory systems impeding their progress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMSummary: "For 100 million years, bees have provided sustainability on earth-- yet these glorious pollinators are facing challenges and fading from our planet. ... [This film] provides an in-depth look at the people who are facing the challenge on behalf of the bees, making a difference, and urging everyone to join them on a planet-saving mission"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEESummary: The remarkable story of Elian Gonzalez, a five year old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his future changed the course of US Cuban relations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELIWood, Elijah
Summary: Huckleberry Finn and his friend, an escaped slave named Jim, face adventure as they travel down the Mississippi River; when Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, they try to decide whether to keep the truth a secret or reveal the identity of the killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY THRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THRNeeson, Liam
Summary: When he's rejected by his herd, a half-striped zebra sets out on a journey to earn the rest of his stripes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Media Services Inc 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV KHUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KHUSummary: The story of Grace, a woman with a "picture-perfect life," whose reaction to the infidelities of her husband Eddie turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOMNeeson, Liam
Summary: When Bryan Mills is accused of a serious crime, he goes on the run to give himself a chance to prove his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAK RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TaSummary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Curious 2009Summary: With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN THISummary: Neera is a young girl who becomes seperated from her father in Arabia during World War II. Left alone in the desert, she befriends a wild colt, who she names Shetan. Once reunited with her father, however, Neera remains haunted by images of "the lost horse of the desert". This is the prequel to 'The Black Stallion' and shows the relationship between the stallion and the young girl who have come...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY YOUNeeson, Liam
Summary: An exiled artist and poet goes on a quest with his housekeeper and daughter, in an effort to escape the authorities who fear that the truth of his words may lead to a rebellion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU FAMILY PROSummary: Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOLSummary: 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 DANSummary: 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 SILSummary: Shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRINeeson, Liam
Summary: When a bank robber decides to turn himself in to start over with a woman he loves, he is double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020