Filter By Subjects
Cyrano de Bergerac 1619-1655 Drama Ferber, Edna 1887-1968 Film and video adaptations Herzog, Werner 1942- Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Mexican-American Border Region Drama Motion pictures Production and direction North America Mexican-American Border Region Revenge United StatesFilter By Subjects
Cyrano de Bergerac 1619-1655 Drama Ferber, Edna 1887-1968 Film and video adaptations Herzog, Werner 1942- Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Mexican-American Border Region Drama Motion pictures Production and direction North America Mexican-American Border Region Revenge United StatesSummary: Anton fights the forces of darkness while trying to find and save his son, but when vampires from the dark side mysteriously get killed, he is framed for their murders and must now try to escape the Day Watch who is looking for his blood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: Post office manager Philippe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated south of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is sent instead to Nord-Pas de Calais. This northern province is known for its chilly dampness, its drunken, unemployable population, its terrible food and an impenetrable dialect known as Ch'timi. But Philippe soon learns to love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIESummary: J'accuse is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as "a human cry against the bellicose din of armies." Stars Marise Dauvray as Edith, a young woman who is unhappily married to an older man, Franȯis (Sv̌erin-Mars), but is actually in love with a young poet Jean Diaz (Romuald...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley, LLC 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CYRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CYRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CYRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CYRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cyrano 2022Summary: Based on a true story, a gripping adventure about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NORSummary: "What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DESSummary: Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on journalist Kim Barker's memoir "The Taliban shuffle: strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Whiskey 2016Summary: A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Silent 2006Summary: 1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEMZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDSummary: In 1978, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CRYSummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATSummary: "A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CimarronRedgrave, Vanessa
Summary: After his wife has given up on him and left him for his former best friend, a failed artist descends into madness and tries to win her back by performing various bizarre escapades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MORSummary: Cry macho: When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it meansto be a man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRYSummary: "Amiable, unassertive Scott Mary picks up the trash, cleans the toilets, sweeps the floors in the town of Clifton. Then a gunfighter comes to town. He offers advice and guidance to Scott who quickly begins to toughen and mature, thus upsetting the balance of power in the town"--IMDb.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Video 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN DAYSummary: A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DINSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: Examines the career of attorney Jacques Vergès, who has defended the rights of accused terrorists and other notorious criminals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008