Summary: Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in rural North Carolina are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices as they discover what it takes to make a modern American hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GEOSummary: The Emerald Forest: Bill Markham, an engineer, returns to the Amazon year after year searching for his son who had disappeared into the jungle. After ten years of searching, Markham finds the man that had once been his boy, but now is a warrior from a different world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOHSummary: Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABOSummary: It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13Summary: After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs. Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a crusty mountain man who wants the dogs for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SNOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SnowSummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RSummary: Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PASSummary: A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DESSummary: Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson are a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp running even though they are under heavy economic strain. To whip together a group of kids who have problems following orders and to help improve their financial situation, Hinton brings in his military trained father - even though he and his father have been on the outs. Soon the campers, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family DaddySummary: A trio of cows - Maggie, Mrs. Calloway and Grace - hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions, the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOMSummary: It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CLESummary: Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the '50s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The classic saga of King Arthur and those around him in the Court-- the knights, his Queen, and the wizard Merlin. Focuses on the rise of Christian civilization out of the Dark Ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY EXCSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Summary: Rango, a kooky pet chameleon, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, a lawless outpost populated by the desert's most wily and whimsical creatures. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt, until he starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD RangoSummary: During World War II, Navy Lt. Neil Thomas bids Caroline, his pregnant young wife, farewell at Union Station. Before their son is born, Neil's plane goes down in the Pacific and he's declared MIA. Caroline is devastated, but her love never dies. For the next 65 years, Caroline returns to Union Station on the anniversary of her loss to salute his memory. When a TV journalist learns of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999