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Addams family (Fictitious characters) Drama Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Families Family New York (State) New York Drama Family United States Drama Friendship United States Drama Nannies New York (State) New York Drama Sasquatch Drama Theatrical producers and directors New York (State) New York Drama Traffic accidents United States DramaSummary: It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHUSummary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANSummary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUSummary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HANSummary: The Addams family returns for more creepy capers and hair-raising hilarity, terrifying their neighbors and delighting viewers like never before. Volume 2 features the ghoulish gang in fine form: Gomez runs for mayor, Lurch becomes a pop star, Uncle Fester turns Pugsley into a chimp, and Cousin Itt loses his hair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADDSummary: Brace yourself for more macabre mayhem and monstrous madness as television's creepiest clan wreaks hilarious havoc on their unsuspecting victims. This time, love is in the air, and it seems that everyone--Pugsley, Ophelia, Uncle Fester, and even Lurch--is being bitten by the bug. Gomez, meanwhile, is burglarizing houses in his sleep, and it's curtains for the new neighbors when Morticia tries...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM DVD 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADDSummary: After being brutally attacked outside a bar and in spite of recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether ooky experience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADDSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday TSummary: Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied. Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NANSummary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITSummary: When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: Fifty years after the death of Winston Churchill, Andrew Marr goes on a journey to understand the Prime Minister's love for art as well as his public and personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WINSummary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperSummary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICSummary: After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Master Splinter, their sensei, is struggling to keep them together. He becomes worried when strange things begin brewing in New York City. Tech-industrialist tycoon Max Winters revives four ancient stone warriors and enlists the help of the foot clan to help capture ancient monsters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TMNSummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARSummary: Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied. Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NANSummary: In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020