Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAKSummary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brooklyn 2016Summary: J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PUBSummary: Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOOSummary: Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLSummary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IVASummary: Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Favourite 2019Summary: Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Book 2014Summary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSummary: 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: An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NERSummary: The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASCSummary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: The passionate and forbidden romance between the insane Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPSummary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVESummary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: 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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2 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: Set in the glamour of the 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Phantom 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHASummary: The biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006