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Chaney, James Earl 1943-1964 Drama Civil rights movements United States Drama Civil rights workers Mississippi Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Melodrama Mississippi Race relations Drama Murder Mississippi Drama Schwerner, Michael Henry 1939-1964 Drama Segregation Mississippi DramaSummary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY InCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 2001Summary: 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: In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Communications Corp. 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLASummary: Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOSummary: Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APPSummary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: Filmmaker Agnes Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FACMenochet, Denis
Summary: When glamorous Evelyne Ducat suddenly disappears during a blizzard in rural France, the lives of five people, each harboring their own secrets, become intertwined in their connection to her disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONLSummary: Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BETKaram, Adel
Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSNorton, James
Summary: "John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation. As John struggles to find the right answer to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEASummary: The summer of 1964... Two FBI agents--one a tight-jawed, by-the-book type, the other an experienced Southern lawman who knows how to handle people--head the government's investigation into the disappearance of three civil rights activists in East Mississippi.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 1988