Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BIGSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, filmmaker Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy an option that may become a vital way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sondra Wellington is bossy, controlling, and extremely unpleasant but eveything changes when she's transformed into a chihuahua and her real body is in a coma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ChihuahuaSummary: Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Growing competition from a rival agency creates new problems for Eliza's budding business, and competition from her childhood friend creates problems for her relationship with Inspector Wellington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INVSummary: Bumbling spy Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of nemesis agency KAOS with a great deal of help from his partner Agent 99.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GETSummary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIMSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Kate is a well-bred lass who passes herself off as a barmaid in order to win the heart of her stuffy suitor. Full of mistaken identities and multiple deceptions, the play pokes fun at the various masks we all wear in different social situations. Along the way, each person learns much about the nature of true love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHESummary: Following the bloodbath that ended the prison riot, life is returning to far from normal for those who survive in the experimental unit of OZ. The warden struggles to do the right thing for his prisoners, facing adversity at every turn. Safety at OZ is not an option.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: The portrayal of an actor who finds his on stage role of Othello is affecting his off stage life as murderous revenge begins to seem reasonable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOUSummary: David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUMSummary: It's a few months after the end of Season One. Eliza Scarlet has solved her father's murder while her relationship with Inspector William Wellington, aka the Duke, continues to slowly simmer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FRISummary: When the dreary English weather of 1935 gets to be too much for the eccentric Durrell family, they set off for the rustic, sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu, and the unknown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSummary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: 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