Summary: Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, including his scientific achievements and his defense of his controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Also includes how letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo's discoveries and his trial for heresy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GALSummary: Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hustle 2019Summary: A gracious society matron decides to give her husband one last chance, but soon his ex-mistress shows up, brewing trouble and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EASSummary: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BABCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BABCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BABCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BABSummary: Po works in his family's noodle shop while dreaming the day away about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the world of Kung Fu and study along side his idols. Before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way. It is now up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY KUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KUNSummary: Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED NRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandSummary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWSummary: New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ISNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ISNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IsCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISNSummary: As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APOSummary: A feel-good, coming of (middle) age comedy about a mismatched pair who helps each other overcome life's road blocks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEA1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD TCFF LEA
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEA RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LEASummary: The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DESSummary: After her death at the hands of The Master and a summer vacation spent with her father, Buffy returns to Sunnydale in a strangely withdrawn and snappy mood. Determined to break off her relationship with Angel, she seems a little too eager to renew her Slayer training. She needs to get Angel out of her blood is proving to be harder than she thought. As the two draw even closer together, their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BuffySegel, Jason
Summary: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and other Muppets join with friends to save their theater from Tex Richman who is scheming to acquire the property, tear down the theater, and drill for oil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUPSummary: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CuCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURRichardson, Sibil Fox
Summary: Documents the fight of Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, for the release of her husband from prison where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC TIMSummary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMSummary: Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of the administration's cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY MYSummary: Filmed live at Walt Disney World, La Nouba is a dream come true. Amid this waking dream you'll find clowns, ballerinas, trapeze artists, BMX bicycle acts, high-wire balancing and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS CIRSummary: Inspired by true events, this is the story of Fauna Hodel, a teenage girl who was given away at birth. Fauna lives with the mysteries of her origin, until one day she makes a discovery that leads her to question everything. As Fauna begins to investigate, she meets a ruined reporter, and together they follow a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Los Angeles gynecologist, a man...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ISummary: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen for a very specific purpose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNSummary: The fifteen year realization of a cinematic dream that presents the profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world's problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016