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Cobb, Daniel M.Summary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PGSummary: Kenai, a young Native American boy who wants to be a man, sets out to take revenge after his older brother is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. When Kenai finds himself magically transformed into the creature he hates most, a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps while learning some life lessons. In his quest to return to human form, he is befriended by a talkative bear...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD BROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BROSummary: Ronnie Anne is a free-spirited, independent eleven year-old who moves to the big city with her mom and brother to live with their extended family, the Casagrandes. When she's not spending time with her bustling, multi-generational, Mexican-American family, Ronnie Anne and her new best friend Sid explore the city and make fun new friendships along the way. Join their adventures in all twenty...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CASSummary: The Man with the Yellow Hat and George are going on vacation, but their plane is delayed and there's a long wait ahead. The Amazing Balancing Zucchinis are in town, prompting George to try acrobatics. George and The Man with the Yellow Hat are having a sandcastle contest at the beach and George is determined to make the best castle ever. George meets a turtle and decides to bring his new friend...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Juv CSummary: An investigation into the disputed cause of death of black activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody in Waller County, Texas, after a routine traffic stop by state trooper Brian Encinia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAYSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUSummary: In this documentary, Che Smith (a.k.a. Rhymefest, the Grammy-winning rapper) reunites with his father, an alcoholic living on the streets of Chicago, and struggles to deliver him to safety and an existence that is productive and meaningful, in essence, taking responsibility for the man who had abandoned him as a young child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHESummary: Bill Hixon has been America's Top Metropolitan Police Chief three years running. Looking for a new posting, a new challenge, he settled on Boston. But not that Boston. Bill arrives in England with his 14 year-old daughter Kelsey in tow, hoping for a fresh start. Headhunted for his numbers-driven approach, Bill is tasked with tackling East Lincolnshire's league-topping crime figures. But he's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It was meant and received as an indictment of the British class system, which seemed most inflexible in 1964. Almost as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Granada Television Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: The seven superheroes of the Justice League unite to fight evil across the galaxy, but when one of their own commits the ultimate betrayal, it could be the end of the Justice League and Earth forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JUSSummary: This documentary begins as a profile of the Children's Organization of Southeast Asia, which provides shelter to child victims of human trafficking in Northern Thailand, and its leader, Mickey Choothesa. As the filmmakers pursue their subject, suspicions arise as to whether Choothesa and COSA are truly what they represent themselves to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WROSummary: "What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DESCobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: Nick offers to take Suzanne's kids cross-country in an effort to win her heart. He must survive 24 hours with two kids bent on destroying him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Are 2007Summary: Carl Fredericksen is a seventy-eight-year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family UpCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV UPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UP RATED PGSummary: Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DRISummary: Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSummary: Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and the rest of the gang unravel a bewitching case of ghostly deeds and spine-tingling suspense in this feature-length animated Scoob-tacular movie!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: Includes all ten episodes of season two. The next chapter in Kurt Sutter's award-winning Sons of Anarchy saga. Set in a post-Jax Teller world, Ezekiel 'EZ' Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the California/Mexico border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020