Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMESummary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POCSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME HOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED PGBaisho, Chieko.
Summary: A young woman named Sophie flees to the moving castle of a notorious wizard named Howl after she is cursed to look old beyond her years; while at the castle she falls in love with Howl who can see Sophie's true self despite the curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the taut thriller Alice, a woman, is pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon. While on vacation with two close girlfriends, Alice rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective. Slowly, she starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. But Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering and, once unleashed, it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: Just when he's needed most, Captain Jack Sparrow is trapped on a sea of sand in Davy Jones' Locker. In an increasingly shaky alliance, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa begin a desperate quest to find and rescue him. Captain Jack's the last of the nine Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court who must come together united in one last stand to preserve the freedom-loving pirates' way...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Pirates 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIRSummary: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to Deborah, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAMSummary: Set amidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607, this film tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. The journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NEWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie New 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD NEWSummary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGSummary: The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England. Includes Extended; Theatrical; and First Cuts. Also contains Making 'The New World', a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Everything 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF EvSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Empires fall, love survives. When Michael, a brilliant medical student, meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana's boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PROTeatro Alla Scala
Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRASummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFSummary: When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAN
Summary: Set in the Wild West early days of the Internet, the series is based on the incredible true story of the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape. Stolen from the couple's home by a disgruntled contractor, the video went from underground bootleg-VHS curiosity to full-blown global sensation when it hit the Web in 1997. A love story, crime caper, and cautionary tale rolled into one, the eight-part...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV PAMSummary: The third season of Outlander picks up right after Claire travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank. Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018