Summary: "Sarah, Plain and Tall:" A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas in 1910 to join a widower, John Witting, and his two children. "Skylark:" The Witting family is tested first by drought and then by separation, as Sarah and the children are forced to leave their Kansas farm to join Sarah's aunts in Maine while Jacob remains behind to try to save their livelihood. "Sarah Plain and Tall:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SARSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: "Bribery, extortion, entrapment, muder ... a defense attorney's work is never done! Perry Mason along with associates Della Street, Paul Drake, Jr. and Ken Malansky investigates all manner of mysteries to clear the names of the innocent and bring justice to the guilty. The drama continues in the final four TV movies with a little help from old friends Anthony Caruso and 'Wild Bill' McKenzie....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PERCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: The most wonderful time of the year: The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan's love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 10 MSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROSummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Courageous 2009Summary: An Amish woman must overcome her distrust of outsiders and risk being shunned by her own people, in order to help an FBI agent discover who is the arsonist setting fire to Amish barns.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARSummary: In the 1930s, a cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach in post-revolution Mexico: a cleric who risks his life by continuing to conduct the Catholic Mass in secret after the totalitarian government has outlawed the Catholic Church. In order to confer the Christian sacraments, the priest must have wine but his attempts to obtain wine will call attention to his clandestine activities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWSummary: The story of a youth choir director who needs to write a big song for a Christmas Eve show. She is distracted from her task when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which comes as a surprise to his widowed father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ChSummary: Based on the true story of Kansas City contractor Bruce Murakami. On November 16, 1998, Bruce's wife Cindy and daughter Chelsea are killed in a street accident by drag-racing teenager Justin Suarez. Despite the admonitions of Bruce's surviving sons Brody and Josh, and those of family friend Melissa, the bitter, vengeance-driven Murakami hires attorney Erin Teller to see to it that Suarez is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROSummary: True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case, Gideon v. Wainright (1963), led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIDSummary: Eddie Munster misses Transylvania and clearly does not think it's the most wonderful time of the year. So the rest of the family - Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and Mayilyn - rally to make him enjoy the holly, jolly magic that Santa brings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD MUNSummary: Nell's a newly single mom who wants this Christmas to be extra - special for her two kids. It turns out to be special, indeed, but it's not what she had in mind. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Chaos reigns in this entertaining comedy, and the notion of 'family' takes on a whole new meaning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2014
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday OSummary: "Cuba Gooding, Jr. plays Dwayne Johnson (D.J.), a counselor at a women's correctional center who dedicates his professional life to helping young people reclaim their own self-respect through selfless service to others. The incarcerated young women in the center come from troubled, often violent, backgrounds. Many of them belong to gangs and have been involved with illegal drugs. In the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDSummary: 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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOSSummary: "A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met a 'good guy.' The more Molly ... gets to know Gus ..., the more she's intrigued by him. ... Unbeknownst to Molly, this 'good guy' was a brilliant astrophysicist who suffered an aneurism and has lost all of his short-term memory. Every day is a brand new day--literally--for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2013