Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEASummary: Dexter is back with a new take on taking life. He is ready to put the past behind him, until a high-profile case puts him in the sights of powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado, and the pressure might be too great for even Dexter to hack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEXSummary: Dexter Morgan is a Miami police forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Much ado about nothing ... contrasts the happiness of lovers Claudio and Hero and the cynicism of sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick, who are united in their scorn for love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2012
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MUCSummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Based on the true story of Bill Porter, a man with cerebal palsy. With little hope of getting a real job, Bill asks to take on the position of salesman in the most unwanted and difficult territory. He gets the job and makes his rounds, impacting the lives of his customers during his nearly 50-year career that often found him at the top of his company's sales charts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOOSummary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RIDSummary: A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features, Universal Studios 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDSummary: Season eight begins six months after LaGuerta's murder, and Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother, and serial killer. As Deb struggles to deal with the consequences of her actions, a mysterious woman comes to work with Miami Metro, offering firsthand information on Dexter's past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEXSummary: In season five, Dexter goes from happily married husband to guilt-ridden single dad. How will it affect his ability to maintain an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEXSummary: In a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border, a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive during the Civil War, in a place without rules.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIDSummary: Back with a vengeance for a sixth season of startling suspense and unexpected twists. It's been a year since last season's shocking and heartbreaking conclusion, and mild mannered criminologist-cum-grisly serial killer Dexter Morgan has come to terms with who he is. But his existence is shattered when he crosses paths with an enemy unlike any he's faced before. A delusional religious zealot...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEXSummary: "Last season, Dolores sacrificed herself to free humankind from the grip of an artificial intelligence. Season Four picks up seven years after the protracted war. Humanity is finally free...or so it seems. Maeve and Caleb suspect that Hale and a host version of the Man in Black are seeding a conspiracy to regain control"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESSummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Avengers 2018Summary: Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEFSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015