Summary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew heads toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the credible threat that Cylons may be aboard the ship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Against the stunning landscapes of Scotland's iconic Loch Ness, local detective sergeant, Annie Redford finds herself in the midst of her first murder investigation; DCI Lauren Quigley is called in to lead the investigation, joined by forensic psychologist Blake Albrighton who believes there is more to the murder than initially meets the eye. Grief, terror, and suspicion soon shatter the town's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOCKinnear, Rory
Summary: Journalist David Whitehead returns to his hometown a year after a killing spree in response to an anonymous warning that the killing is about to begin again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SOULewis, Gary
Summary: The early life of veterinarian James Herriot against the backdrop of the rise of fascism in Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YOUSummary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nearly 10 years after the original series ended, Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is here. Lorelai still runs the Dragonfly Inn, and now lives with Luke. Her daughter, Rory, now 32, juggles career complications and ex-boyfriends, while matriarch Emily adjusts to widowed life. In four memorable chapters studded with drop-ins by quirky Stars Hollow friends, the Gilmores confront long-standing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: Set in Cornwall in 1820, du Maurier's classic gothic tale of romance, intrigue, and murder on the moors comes to vivid life in this enchanting production that aired on the BBC in 2014.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAMSummary: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANTaylor-Joy, Anya
Summary: Set in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, a young woman receives the gift of an exact replica of their home from her new husband and she soon finds that the miniature creations inside it mirror what is happening in the real house in unnerving ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MINSummary: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: The story of the Henry family as they experience World War II in Europe and the Pacific, depicting the final years of the war and its impact on everyday people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WARSummary: Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: What begins as a chance romance between two people from opposite walks of life - one an antisocial investment banker, the other a slacker romantic - quickly unravels when the reclusive banker disappears under suspicious circumstances, exposing his real identity as a spy and forcing his lover down a dark path to reveal the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LONSummary: Set in the Wild West early days of the Internet, the series is based on the incredible true story of the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape. Stolen from the couple's home by a disgruntled contractor, the video went from underground bootleg-VHS curiosity to full-blown global sensation when it hit the Web in 1997. A love story, crime caper, and cautionary tale rolled into one, the eight-part...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAMCurry, Tim
Summary: Dramatization of Shakespeare's rise from humble beginnings in Elizabethan England to fame as a playwright.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WILSummary: Follow the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather, whose unfair expulsion from Oxford kick-starts a disastrous series of events, wherein he is by turn a naive teacher, a celebrity bridegroom, a wanted fugitive, and an international white slave-trader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017