Summary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RSummary: In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VIVSummary: Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICSummary: Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramla, fed up with dieting and the dieting club they belong to, discover the world of Sumo, where large people are honored and appreciated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FORSummary: Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quo 2008Summary: After winning a Best Restaurant In The World award in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014, chef René Redzepi discusses his Copenhagen restaurant Noma and how his culinary philosophy has shaped its success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Facing 2006Summary: An astonishing world where toys play while their owners are away. Woody is a pull-string cowboy doll and is the leader of the toys until the latest, greatest action figure, Buzz Lightyear, enters the picture. When the toy rivals are separated from their owner, they learn to put aside their differences and work as a team to get back home to the boy they love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOY RATED GSummary: Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLSummary: The fifteen year realization of a cinematic dream that presents the profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world's problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DALSummary: A story about the events leading up to the sword-fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PUSSummary: An overview of the life of His Holiness, the 15th Dalai Lama with an explanation of how Tibetan Buddhism is both a religion and a "science of the mind." The Dalai Lama shares his crystallized understanding of the nature of mind, and its part in the creation and alleviation of all of our suffering. He discusses how the first step in dealing with emotions is to recognize the patterns, triggers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASSummary: "After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI LIQSummary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT
Summary: Chicago, 1924. Two young men, one bossy and intimidating, the other sensitive and introverted, thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off "The perfect crime." The result is a sensational case with defense attorney Jonathan Wilk putting capital punishment itself on trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006