Summary: Story of the Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, a people who have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture. The Roma have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution in Europe, most notably the Holocaust genocide where an estimated 500,000 were murdered. A People Uncounted documents their culturally rich yet often difficult lives, and demonstrates how their present state...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEOSummary: In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the Internet lore of the Slender Man, attempts to prove that he doesn't actually exist, until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLESummary: Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EXPSummary: A boy, a girl, a bushman, and a dog wander across the desert in order to escape elephant poachers who want them dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRASummary: Sue works in a library; her son Daniel eats chips and listens to Metallica. When his father and stepmother cancel his summer plans to visit them in Florida at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies, and pursue their passions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAYSummary: When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping the entity's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BYESummary: In hip, urban Mission Hill, overqualified, underemployed, 24-year-old Andy French works at a waterbed store and dreams of becoming a cartoonist. Responsibility soon knocks on the door of the loft apartment Andy shares with two fellow slackers in the form of Kevin, Andy's nerdy 17-year-old brother, and his dog, who come to live with Andy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MISSummary: A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOOSummary: Zootopia is a city like no other that is comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it's a melting pot where animals from every environment live together. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn't so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ZOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOO RATED PGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD ZootopiaSummary: Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Adam 2010Summary: In Europe's highest mountain range, discover how Eurasian lynx, golden eagles, ibex, griffon vultures and other animals face extreme seasonal fluctuations from thunderstorms to avalanches in an epic two-part documentary event. On every mountain slope, ridge or meadow, a natural world drama plays out as animals fight for survival in the Alps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALPSummary: Gus and Joe eagerly anticipate another quiet, relaxing fishing trip. Only things don't go quite as they planned! Instead, they innocently create an unstoppable series of outrageous mishaps, destroying everything in their wake!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GONSummary: Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRESummary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMSummary: "With the Army of the Dead--led by the Night King, his White Walkers and an undead dragon--bearing down on Jon and Dany and their combined forces, a denouement eight seasons in the making will be reached, answering a myriad of questions surrounding the fate of the series' protagonists. Meanwhile, Jon's true identity promises to undermine Dany's claim to the Iron Throne...and, or course, Cersei...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMSummary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: Detective Joe Swan returns to his small home town to investigate the murder of a teenaged Aboriginal girl. He finds himself alone and in growing danger as the towns secrets unravel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MYSSummary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021