Summary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDSummary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPSummary: U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2015Summary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: A housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: Charlotte's web: When Wilbur the pig is terrified that he'll end up on the dinner table, his friend Charlotte the spider weaves words into her web to try and convince the farmer that Wilbur is too special a pig to kill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHASummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOWSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD MulanSummary: The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOS RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: Kansas City publicist Darcy ventures to the Emerald Educational Trust for the job of a lifetime. Here she will help VP Glen Goodman and his team find the know-how, courage, and heart to help a charity in need for Christmas. Darcy and Glen begin to realize they have everything in common. Will a surprise revelation at the big Christmas gala put an end to their promising romance before it really...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A CIA agent who is on the run from a mass slaughter in his research office suddenly finds himself the target of both his employers and the unknown killers of his associates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER THRSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRU RATED RSummary: After the death of his girlfriend at the hands of Islamic terrorists, Mitch Rapp is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy SEAL Stan Hurley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASSSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED PG 13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lion 2017Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction--the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011