Summary: A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIGSummary: Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BORSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAMSummary: The four Pevensie children - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - return to Narnia, only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there. Now, crowning himself king, the evil General Miraz has taken charge. The children enlist the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep. They set out find the exiled Prince Caspian, determined to see him rightfully named king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family ChroniclesSummary: 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: Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When originally produced, this was a sincere exploration of the evils of marijuana. Over time, it has become classic camp. High school kids get hooked on marijuana, which leads to wild behavior, accidents and ultimately death and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REEWilliams, Esther.
Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: In the year 2035, Cole travels into the past to retrieve samples of a virus that has devastated Earth's people in the hope that a cure can be designed. In his search for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, a radical group linked to the virus, Cole meets a psychiatrist and a mental patient.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TWESummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either berieved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2021
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASSummary: After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies. When NASA realizes he is alive, they must devise a rescue mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This captivating documentary film tells the story of the Russian all-girl punk rock band Pussy Riot, who stood up to the Russian government's human rights oppression and paid the price by being incarcerated in 2011. But rather than silencing their voices, the incident only amplified them, turning the band into a global symbol of feminist political activism, culminating in their widely seen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: A rookie cop inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLASummary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF KiSummary: An American Air Force major on leave in Japan during the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese dancer. When they declare their love openly, they find themselves scorned equally by both the Japanese and Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAYSummary: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHISummary: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016