Summary: 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: 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: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MONSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: "There is no dispute. The Warner Bros. Cartoons are the funniest animated shorts in all of film history, and its classic cartoon stars Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Porky Pig, The Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote, to name but a few are the most popular of all time. This second collection of rarely seen gems - all presented here for the first time on Blu-ray - features twenty-five more titles...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wilbur Whateley draws graduate student Nancy Wagner from Miskatonic University back to Dunwich with the book of the occult, the Necronomicon, in tow, with Whateley planning to use both in a mysterious ritual to summon "The Old Ones".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AMBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMBSummary: The inspiring true story of Rickey Hill, the small-town son of a traveling Pastor. A sandlot baseball phenom, Rickey defiantly overcomes his physical disabilities and father's persistent worry for his health, to fulfill his dream of playing professional baseball and ultimately transforming his connection with his father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LONSummary: Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to tame an uninhabitable land and build a colony in the name of the King. While braving the elements, he is joined by some indentured serfs who have fled their tyrannical magistrate, which makes them all targets of a deadly conflict.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PROSummary: "Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting thier skills against ruthless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REVSummary: Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this immersive account by Stuart Cooper of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the inner thoughts of 11-year old Riley as her five often-conflicting emotions--Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness--are hard at work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI GRASummary: "Return to the world of two realities: everyday life... and what lies behind it. To truly know himself, Neo must follow the white rabbit once again into the Matrix. Of course, Neo already what he has to do. What he doesn't know is that the Matrix is more dangerous than ever. Déja vu" -- Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MATSummary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWESummary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARSummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009