Summary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THE

Summary: Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAR

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300

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Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THR

Summary: About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Minamata

Summary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPE

Summary: A conniving slave attempts to help his master's son win the love of the girl-next-door.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FUN

Summary: Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Woman

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Wo

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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 PAU

Summary: Robin Hood attempts to save England from Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham, while also winning the heart of Maid Marian.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Robin 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROB

Summary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEN

Summary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONT

Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Summary: The incredible true story of Olympic legend Jesse Owens. In his epic quest to be the greatest athlete in history, Owens chooses to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he must overcome not only elite competition, but also the brutal racial climate of Adolf Hitler's Germany. A film about courage, determination, tolerance, friendship and trust.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAC RATED PG13

Summary: Every family has its secrets. Director Peter Stephan Jungk had always known that his Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. But it was not until twenty years after her death in 1973 that he learned she had led a double life, and changed the course of history. Jungk unravels what had been a well-kept secret by speaking with military historians, photo...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Summary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IVA

Summary: Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Florence

Summary: Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, even as she seeks to win the heart of the king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family One 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD O

Summary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IN

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Summary: Having spent years in slavery after false accusation of treason, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur returns home seeking revenge but his life transforms when he meets a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEN RATED PG13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Be

Summary: Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hollywood 2007

Summary: The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12

Summary: Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recruited to spy for Russia in 1934. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Across almost 20 years of spying and treachery, the four are bound by their beliefs, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAM

Summary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2003

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE POS