Summary: The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and 'die swart gevaar' (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOFSummary: Through extensive interviews with cast and creators, original show footage presented in HD. For the first time, and brand-new animated storyboards, directors Ira Steven Behr (showrunner of the original series) and David Zappone (Star Trek docs The Captains and For the Love of Spock) present an in-depth look at this beloved TV show, its fans, and its ongoing appeal to Trekkies of all ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: In 1904, well bred Samantha Parkington finds friendship with servant girl Nellie O'Malley when she comes to visit New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AmeSummary: From the 2011 overthrow of a 30-year dictator, through military rule, and culminating with the forced military removal of the Muslim Brotherhood president in the summer of 2013, we follow a group of Egyptian activists as they battle leaders and regimes, and risk their lives to build a new society of conscience. The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster. Through the news, we...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SQUSummary: In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat. Duchess has three little kittens. A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ARISummary: Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VARSummary: A dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KILSummary: A young man finds an ancient map and becomes intrigued with the search for hidden treasure. He discovers that sometimes being a true hero is often nothing more than caring enough to help someone in need and persevering until that need is met.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUTSummary: Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory LLC 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOMSummary: In this comedy, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) is an ever-enthusiastic government employee who has her sights set on the City Council. Features all 22 episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pa 4Summary: "Seven DVDs and over 14 hours of television and concert performances, including four previously unreleased specials and a box-set exclusive compilation of vintage performances from Frank's television show."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FRA1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC MUSIC FRA
Summary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: Golden Globe winner Amy Poehler returns as Leslie Knope in the hilarious sixth season of Parks and Recreation. The citizens of Pawnee loathe their merger with the neighboring town of Eagleton, and blame all their troubles- both real and imagined- on Councilwoman Knope. The personal lives of those in City Hall are equally as tumultuous: Andy (Chris Pratt) must temporarily say "cheerio" to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pa 6Summary: Dedicated government employee Leslie Knope and her fellow colleagues return for big laughs from the small town of Pawnee, Indiana, in the hilarious third season of Parks and Recreation. Their funny antics continue as they ramp up for their most important civic project yet: the Harvest Festival. As Leslie Knope plans, prepares and publicizes, her colleagues take on other challenges such as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARSummary: Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films/Shout Factory 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NeSummary: A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her inner 70-year-old.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MackSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: Season two of the hit mockumentary looks at the exciting world of local government. Continues to be the hysterical comedy that is a definite must-have for every fan!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pa 2Summary: Too-Tall and the gang amuse themselves at Sister's expense by warning her how hard third grade will be and how strict Teacher Jane is. Brother tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Sis not to worry. Mama reminisces about Sister starting kindergarten and reflects on how her daughter's feelings back then were exactly the same. Sure enough, when sister starts grade three she enjoys the new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! Entertainment 2012