Summary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillSummary: Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Peninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNBCopies Available at Kingsley
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Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSummary: "Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thrilling adventure of imprisonment and escape(s) from a French Guiana prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Papillon 1999Summary: Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE VONSummary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSummary: In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINSummary: Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLISummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: "I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture," says Mark "Chopper" Read. Read is one of Australia's best-selling authors, in part because before he became an author, he was one of Australia's most brutal stand-over men. "Chopper" tells his story with a kind of fascinated horror, a study of the mystique of criminal notoriety, and portrait of a cunning, ruthless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHOSummary: Oscar winner Judi Dench stars in this darkly humorous drama about a meek, middle-aged divorcee who suddenly begins to behave in ways that shock her ex and her grown daughter. Extras include biographies of star Judi Dench and writer Catherine Heath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEHSummary: After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JaSummary: Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2015