Summary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AIRCaron, Leslie
Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIGSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARDornan, Jamie
Summary: Two New Orleans paramedics see their lives changed when they come across a series of horrific deaths which are linked to a desginer drug with bizarre side effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Inc 2021
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SYNSummary: As a former outlaw turned wagon train guide, Stewart is pitted against warring Indians, murderous hijackers and a traitorous ally as he attempts to lead a group of settlers through the treacherous Oregon wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BENSummary: Cars: Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRISummary: Primatologist Davis shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. When a greed-fueled corporation's genetic experiment goes awry, George and other animals across the country are mutated into aggressive super creatures that rampage the city. In an adrenaline-filled ride, Davis tries to find an antidote to not only...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rampage 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaSummary: In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESSummary: Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Going 2017Summary: A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GRESummary: A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman₂s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WANSummary: Kong, Skull Island: When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KONSummary: Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ADRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Adrift 2018Summary: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRESummary: Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OFSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRESummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016