Summary: "A landmark documentary ... Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door slesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALSummary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRESummary: When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: Harry, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and infamous, is married to Louisa, who is smart and sexy. Andy is a suave and ruthless British spy, who had best come through this time, who forces Harry to eavesdrop on the powerful politicians he clothes. Harry's talent for storytelling is not only taken as truth, but sets off a series of events that threatens to destroy everything most important in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As soon as a woman is nominated to replace the deceased vice president of the USA, her political enemies search in her private life for ways to bring her down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNI RATED RSummary: Two small-time con men team up to pull off a big-time score involving a set of valuable conuterfeit stamps known as the Nine Queens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NINTrapero, Pablo
Summary: An ambulance-chasing attorney and a doctor cross paths while investigating car accidents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARSummary: Set in the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLESummary: Who killed Mr. Boddy? Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with the gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Clue 1985Summary: "New York's most controversial fashion photographer Laura Mars exhibits a mystifying psychic ability. In her mind's eye, she "witnesses" a series of bizarre murders with terrifying clarity"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER EYESummary: An invitation to dinner and a murder is sent to five world famous detectives by Lionel Twain, an eccentric millionaire living in an isolated, gloomy estate in northern California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MURSummary: A career thief and a detective square off to make sure that the other does not succeed. Special features include: additional scenes; audio commentary; documentaries; and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HEASummary: A charter boat operator in the Caribbean breaks his policy of neutrality and takes a job transporting a resistance member to Martinique.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TOSummary: A mentally unstable Vietnam vet has a one-man war with the police force of a small town after they abuse him. Includes a never-before-seen alternate suicide ending, deleted scenes and commentary with Sylvester Stallone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FIRSummary: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD TCFF COHSummary: FBI Agent Jack Crawford is led to believe that his partner Tom Wynne and family are killed by the infamous and elusive assassin, Rogue. Jack becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad's and Shiro the Yakuza boss. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Croupier 2004Summary: It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the joeks end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOYSummary: They call themselves the Borg--a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1996
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WHESummary: Susan and Daniel are a happily married couple who are taking a much needed vacation to the islands. They are hoping for a memorable trip. However, their vacation turns tragic when their scuba diving party leaves them in the middle of the ocean by the careless diving boat crew. As the reality of isolation sets in, they turn to one another for support. Unable to flag down passing boats, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004