Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MY

Summary: In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOB

Summary: Ross Carpenter is a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Girls 2002

Summary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA APO

Summary: A young, newly wed couple set up housekeeping in an attic apartment near Central Park in New York City.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAR

Summary: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enemy 2001

Summary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002

Summary: Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blosssoms into full womanhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures Corp. 2005

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE RAI

Summary: Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing, and from their candid and hilarious perspectives, reveal pieces of themselves along the way. This school program started in 1994 and today has over 6,000 kids from 60 schools involved.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAD
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAD

Summary: Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie We 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WEW