Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KAT

Summary: Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYS

Summary: A soulful look into the lives of four women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, they form a rap group, but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism and violence. Eventually, they learn that out of struggle comes strength and the courage to continue on.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANT

Summary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2017

Summary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAN

Summary: A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAS

Summary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa

Summary: In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEM

Summary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASH

Summary: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOR

Summary: Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada, who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE UNC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNC

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD UNC

Summary: Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOR

Summary: Just as Guei, a bicycle messenger, makes his final payment for the silver mountain bike loaned by his company, he finds it stolen. After endless searching Guai discovers his bicycle is now in the hands of Jian, who bought the bicycle with stolen money. The bicycle represents an escape for both from the competitive pressures of their lives. For Guei, it means access to a job, an income, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arc Light Films 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEI

Summary: Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa 4

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAS

Summary: 13-year-old Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, and somewhat overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for Mei. And as if changes to her body, interests, and relationships weren't enough, whenever Mei gets too excited, she "poofs" into a giant red panda.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY TUR

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TUR

Summary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PG

Summary: When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LON

Summary: 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 Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MUL

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUL

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Mulan

Summary: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY SNO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SNO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED PG-13

Summary: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FANTASY SNO

Summary: When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MIS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIS

Summary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAF