Summary: Based on a true story, Charles S. Gilpin was the first African-American to star in a leading role in a stage play during a time where roles of color were previously played by white men in blackface. As Gilpin rose to fame and recognition, tensions were high between him and playwright Eugene O'Neill which ultimately lead to parting ways, though his acclaimed performance has changed Broadway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLASummary: Documentary follows the lives and work of legendary 1970s session musicians who were featured on some of the most iconic recordings of the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When terrorists and the UN work together to take down the United States' power grid, martial law is declared and a group of Texas patriots band together to fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMESummary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: For old friends Roger and Frank and their wives, it was supposed to be the best vacation they ever had. But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a satanic sacrifice. Now horror hits the highway as the couples are pursued by satanic cultists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RACSummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Birth of the Blues: (89 min., b&w) As a child, Jeff Lambert hangs out in New Orleans' Basin Street, playing hot swing on his clarinet instead of the classics his father prefers. He's inspired by an African-American group there and, some years later, at the turn of the century, sets out to form a jazz band of his own. Patterned after the story of trombonist Jack Teagarden of the Original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIRSummary: During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Classic Movies 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The new woman owner of the Cleveland Indians wants to move the franchise to Florida, and her only chance is a losing year. So she signs a bunch of screwballs in hopes that they'll blow the season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAJSummary: In this suspenseful fourteenth season, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit takes on their strangest cases and deadliest adversaries yet, including a murderous cult leader who takes Dr. Reid and Garcia hostage in the series' landmark 300th episode. From missing children and mysterious overdoses to sadistic serial killers and world-class assassins, each member of the team must get closer to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRISummary: Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain that leads tours off Plymouth Island. His quiet life is upended when Karen, his ex-wife, tracks him down to ask him for help. She begs him to save her and their son from her new husband. She requests that Dill take her husband out on a fishing expedition and leave him to the sharks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SeSummary: DSS Mike Shepherd and DC Kristin Simms return to uncover more macabre goings on in the quaint, murder-ridden town of Brokenwood. Beneath the town's peaceful veneer are buried secrets, treacherous lies, and murderous rivalries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Brokenwood 2017Summary: Dr. Andrew Brown and his family are starting their second year in tiny Everwood, Colorado. Enough time to begin recovering from the death of Andy's wife, put down roots and be at home. Or maybe just enough time to be in total turmoil. Andy finds he can indeed fall in love again, 16-year-old Ephram falls hard for an older girl, and Ephram's friend Amy, in shock from the death of her boyfriend,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EVESummary: The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 p.m. The lives of many cross at this one point in time which shall have life-altering effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: One of the most compelling and conflicted characters--the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius--comes to the big screen! Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil -- or will Morbius succumb to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MORParker, Trey
Summary: Follows four irreverent grade-school kids in the town of South Park, Colorado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SOUSummary: Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCSummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: The nightmare begins when Captain Lansen attempts to transport illegal explosives and a motley group of passengers on a rusty tramp steamer that becomes stranded in the vast floating swamp of the mysterious Sargasso Sea. Under cover of night, the terrified travelers encounter unspeakable monsters, man-eating seaweed, vicious mutant pirates and stupendously endowed women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Optimim Releasing 2009