Summary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAR

Summary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Summary: The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LOS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOS RATED PG-13

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: A ragtag group of Knights Templar hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the king to defend the freedom of their country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by ARC Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Weisz, Rachel

Summary: The story of author Deborah E. Lipstadt's fight for historical truth to prove that the Holocaust did occur when a denier sues her for libel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Summary: Gone to Texas: The true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. Blue River: Based on the novel by Ethan Canin, depicts the powerful events that unfold in a small Wisconsin town driving two teenage brothers apart when later in life one brother, now a homeless derelict, arrives at the home of his brother,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Summary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Irvine, Jeremy

Summary: Albert Narracott enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAR PG-13

Huston, Jack

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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