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Lakemeier, MartijnSummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: "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: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIDSummary: See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: the Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SINSummary: Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWOSummary: The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: As big business takes hold of the rail industry, a local depot gang is forced to either adapt to the new managerial double-talk or take chances with receiving severance pay. Agreements set long ago are suddenly undermined by a new managing director who wipes the slate clean. Tensions mount when the men show up the the depot only to find there is no work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVSummary: There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sixteen Films 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: People near and far are heading for Agrabah as the royal wedding of the century is about to take place. But before Aladdin and Jasmine can say "I do," the legendary Forty Thieves spoil everything in a desperate search for the powerful Hand of Midas -- the ultimate treasure that turns all it touches into gold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALASummary: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HITSummary: 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: In August, 1892 Lizzie Borden is famously charged with the murder of her stepmother and father. It causes a huge media sensation, perhaps the first example of a tabloid court case. But what really happened on that night? Did Lizzie really do it? What happened in her quietly idyllic Massachusetts life that unfurled this chain of events? Did her father's strict hand send her down this treacherous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLSummary: Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles, and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victoria 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 2Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDSummary: From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate portrait of one man's personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HELSummary: John Hannah stars as Detective Inspector Rebus in these adaptations of the novels by Ian Rankin. D.I. Rebus confronts the underworld and his own personal demons while scouring the streets of Edinburgh investigating a series of deadly crimes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REBSummary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: Jules follows Milton who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things become complicated when two neighbors discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JULSummary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERSummary: Death Hunt: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Butch & Sundance: The Early Years: A prequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the hit Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011