Summary: A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Freedom 2007Summary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARSummary: Rin Tin Tin is an amazing dog brought to America after WWI who became a Hollywood star and loved by fans everywhere. He could perform amazing stunts, jumping thirteen feet into the air, scaling fences and climbing trees. Experience Rin Tin Tin in action in these eight stories of heroism and justice that will entertain and delight audiences of all ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ULTSummary: The Muppets tasted success with a college musical, and are now ready for Broadway to experience their talent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUPSummary: Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRASummary: Accidentally blinded as a child, 18-year-old Selina D'Arcey falls in love with a gentle and charming man, Gordon Ralfe, whom she meets in a rare visit to a park. Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATSummary: A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE POSSummary: The destitute, selfish Duke of Bristol persuades a lovely, unselfish American heiress to attempt a month-long trial marriage in a Scottish castle. Another mismatched couple-- his impoverished, timid bachelor pal and a shrewish, wealthy widow-- join them, and all discover their shortcomings in this comedy of manners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONSummary: George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLASummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTSummary: Hellraiser III : Hell on Earth : A TV reporter discovers the Lament Configuration Box which opens the door to the Cenobites' demonic world of pleasure and pain. Now, Pinhead walks the Earth again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISSummary: A tale of a psychopathic self-styled preacher, who marries and murders a young widow for her money, pursues her children to get his hand on it, only to meet his match in the form of a saintly farm woman, who becomes the children's protector.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HSummary: Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The greatest show on earth comes to the screen in this circus epic set at the turn of the century. The story centers on Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante), his daughter Kitty (Doris Day), his long-suffering fiancee of fourteen years, Lulu (Martha Raye), and Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd), the spy who comes to steal Pop's circus and falls in love with Kitty. Includes lavish and colorful musical numbers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005