Summary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWISummary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HENSummary: Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IVOSummary: "All five Bourne films are available together in The Bourne Complete Collection! Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, an elite government agent determined to outwit and outmaneuver anyone who stands in the way of his mission to discover the secrets of his mysterious past. As part of the next generation of genetically-engineered agents, Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross attempts to finish what Bourne started....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Where'd 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WhSummary: Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOU RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Bourne 2004Summary: Based on journalist Kim Barker's memoir "The Taliban shuffle: strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Whiskey 2016Summary: Joe, a struggling truck driver, is haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and daughter. Joe's life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Julia, a woman with mysterious spiritual powers, whose daughter, Billie, lies in a coma. Julia enlists Joe's help to stop Billie from crossing over to the spirit world, but when Billie awakes, her body is possessed, by the vengeful spirit of Joe's dead wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BETSummary: Bourne continues to have nightmares from his former life. Hoping to unravel the truth behind his memories and his own past that he cannot remember, the former CIA agent Bourne tries to discover the truth while trying to avert an international incident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A father's life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRA RATED PG-13Summary: Guided by a determined Navy psychiatrist, a troubled sailor embarks on a personal, emotionally inspiring journey to confront his past and connect with the family he never knew. Inspired by the true life experiences of Antwone Fisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANTSummary: When Dave gets lost in a labyrinth he has built out of cardboard in his living room, his girlfriend and friends try to rescue him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DAVSummary: Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARTCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARTSummary: Based on the true story of George Jung. This is an uncompromising look at the rise and fall of the man who became the largest importer of Colombia cocaine to the United States in the 1970's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blow 2001Summary: Bourne, is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bourne 2002Summary: When shy, beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn't take long for the two to meet again - during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Colubia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: Wheelsy is a small rural town where not much happens, but that is all going to change, and not for the better. Grant Grant, the town's wealthiest and most powerful citizen, is taking a walk through the woods when he comes across a strange and unfamiliar life form. Grant makes the mistake of getting too close and soon an alien creature invades his body. It is not long before Grant isn't the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he set out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOMSummary: Investigates the theory that the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine had been orchestrated by the Soviet Union as a screen for the decommissioning of the Duga (i.e., Woodpecker) ballistic missle advance warning system (based in the vicinity of the reactor) because of the inevitable change in relations between Ukraine and what was soon to become post-Cold War Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RUSSummary: Three are dead. Who is number four? John Smith is an extraordinary teen masking his true identity to elude a deadly enemy sent to destroy him. Living with his guardian in the small town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected life-changing events, his first love, powerful new abilities, and a secret connection to the others who share his incredible destiny. Complete with deleted scenes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: The whirlwind of overnight fame threatens a paid infomercials audience member's budding romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017