Summary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HANPearce, Guy
Summary: After World War II, a former Dutch resistance fighter tries to save the life of a renowned artist and art dealer accused of conspiring with the Nazis because he is convinced of his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASSummary: American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATSummary: 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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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Robin 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBSummary: From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NORCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD NORSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLISummary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SavingCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAT PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Battle 2017Summary: Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOWSummary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSummary: In the midst of epic violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GATSummary: In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Foreign LandLakemeier, Martijn
Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WINSummary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019