Summary: Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAHChristie, Julie
Summary: A couple who has been married for fifty years must face the challenges of Alzheimer's disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AwaySummary: Commander Dalgliesh is asked by Sir Alfred Treeves, a successful businessman, to investigate the death of his son, one of the young ordinands of the theological college of St. Anselm's in East Anglia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEASummary: Filmed over three years, The farmer's wife presents the travails of a Nebraska farmer and his wife as they struggle to preserve both their farm and their marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FARSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BILLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BillySummary: In the title story, when Max decides to dress up as a vampire for Halloween, Ruby is afraid Max will scare Grandma when they go trick-or-treating at her house. But when Grandma answers the door, it's Ruby who gets the fright!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD MCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAX RATED GSummary: A promising hurdler finds needed emotional and athletic seasoning with a caring mentor. After the two fall in love, their relationship is threatened as both vie for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PERSummary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: When a brother and sister invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRESummary: "Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 1999
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday HCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOMSummary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BEOSummary: Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty - a voyage filled with revenge and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THR1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THR
Summary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIASummary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANSummary: Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the world's largest diamond!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RESSummary: Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa who, unknown beknownst to Matthew, is an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WICSummary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008