Summary: "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: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EIGSummary: Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MIRSummary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: When the secret organization headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads the agents to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE KINSummary: Tells the truet story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal Releasing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Entertainment One U.S. 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MEDSummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: 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: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near-death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viva Pictures 2018
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Summary: Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SAFSummary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE AVESummary: Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAKSummary: An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEASummary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FROSummary: An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that's been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMILY CANSummary: "The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with The Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg's international breakthrough, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedom of digital videoto achieve annihilating emotional intensity. On a wealthy man's sixtieth birthday, a sprawling group of family and friends convenese at his country estate for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CELSummary: The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England and a gathering space for a community that has fallen through hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Based on the international bestselling novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder, The Treatment is a gripping, unsettling story. A police inspector is assigned a case where a mother and father have been bound and beaten, and their young son is missing. As he investigates, the troubled cop uncovers other similar cases including a repressed episode from his own childhood. Grim and wholly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRESummary: "In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offer organ transplants-- for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession-- and hunted by the Repo man!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009